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"I will write to five Members of Parliament demanding credible action on climate change and a cross-party accord to provide policy certainty but only if 20 other New Zealanders will do the same."
— IdiotSavant
Deadline to sign up by: 30th April 2006
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Country: New Zealand
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The recent Climate Change and Governance Conferance in Wellington stressed the need for credible policies on climate change. More importantly, it stressed the need for such policies to be durable - for them not to change with every election - so that the business community can have enough certainity to make the necessary investments to shift our economy towards lower carbon emissions. The solution repeatedly suggested was a cross-party accord to take the issue out of the political arena, just as there had once been on superannuation.
Politicians will only act on this if they believe there is a constituency there - so if we want action, we have to show them that that constituency exists.
I'd suggest targetting your local MP and a range of MPs from other parties. Its probably not worth writing to the Greens, as they've already got the message - but pretty much everybody else is a good target, and particularly some of National's newer MPs.
Contact details for MPs can be found here:
http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/Your...
More details on this project are here:
http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2006/03/...