Climate Action Now

Climate breakdown is a code-red emergency. Both North, South, and in Westminster, governments have been slow to act. Young people and ecosocialists are leading the way for change through campaigns on the streets which have raised awareness and forced politicians to pass legislation. We must go further, by challenging the real root of the climate crisis – capitalism. Until then, there are radical actions we can take to mitigate and protect from climate catastrophe.

People Before Profit propose:

  • A Just Transition and Workers’ Superfund which offer re-skilling/re-training on full pay for migration to green jobs.
  • Energy strategies that are exclusively renewable, clean, and green.
  • Renewable Energy Storage: to create a buffer against supply shocks and end the reliance on a “just-in-time” supply system.
  • Oppose blue hydrogen, extraction licenses, harmful dredging, gold mining and fossil fuel industry permits: Big corporate interests are looking for petroleum licensing that will open up our natural environment for drilling and fracking that could poison the water and air for generations to come. Areas like the Sperrins and Lough Neagh should be protected, not pillaged.
  • Climate Mitigations: such as tree planting, rewilding, woodland creation, nature conservation, and protection of biodiversity.
  • Legislate to tackle the extinction crisis and for nature’s recovery: recognise the rights of nature.
  • Oppose Water Charges: Climate change poses a significant threat in terms of our daily lives and requires improvement in our water and sewerage infrastructure. Water and sewerage improvements should be paid by progressive taxation on those who can pay rather than by imposing water charges on those who cannot pay.
  • Oppose privatisation of Translink and expand free public transport: Privatisation leads to fragmentation, unnecessary costs, and leaves low-income and rural communities behind. Translink must be kept in public hands and must begin to explore rolling out free public transport on green hydrogen bus fleets, to increase public footfall and decrease carbon footprint. This should include a North-South and East-West Rail expansion and a Derry-Dublin rail line as a matter of urgency.
  • Restore the £15m a year Fuel Duty Rebate to Translink which is the only public transport operator in the UK that does not receive such a rebate.
  • Transition to electrification of public and private vehicles.
  • Urgent action to deliver carbon neutrality by 2035.