Climate and Public Health Tour: North West stage

The North West is the second stop on HXR’s Climate and Public Health UK banner tour. The banners display the crucial message that the climate emergency is the ‘greatest threat to human health’ and highlights the need for elected leaders to take urgent action to “End fossil fuels, Protect Public Health and Save Lives”.

In the UK, tens of thousands of people already die each year as a result of global heating, air pollution and the actions of fossil fuel companies. Millions more have died globally. Click here to read this global research report detailing the shocking health toll of fossil fuels from extraction to transport, to combustion to waste, at every stage of the fossil fuel lifecycle, affecting every stage of human life and every system of the body.

LIVERPOOL, LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE

On 29th September, HXR members and community members rolled out our huge banners at Liverpool’s Pier Head, during The Labour Party Conference, to draw the attention of elected leaders and the public to the urgent need to “End fossil fuels, Protect Public Health and Save Lives”.

It is over a year since Labour were elected, having made big promises on the climate, including a commitment to become “a clean energy superpower”. While they have taken some forward steps, their environmental plans, their appeal against the Rosebank oil field ruling, and their focus on nuclear power, blue hydrogen and carbon capture raise real concerns. In addition they are not telling the public about the huge health harms. Nor are they, as HXR demanded in their recent “climate and health press briefing” outside parliament, committing to taking immediate, joined-up, and urgent action to prevent and adapt to the climate and health emergency. Our banner tour is designed to raise these issues across the UK