A new Prime Minister. The same mandate.
This summer has seen heatwave after heatwave, forcing PM Andy Burnham to call an emergency Cobra meeting, as temperatures hit 38C and over 71% of England sits in drought. This summer is now on track to be the UK's hottest on record, and forecasters warn it won't be the last extreme weather event of the season. It's the kind of summer that makes the case for climate action pretty hard to argue with.
And this June 1.6 million of us, from every corner of the UK, made that case - loudly. Great Big Green Week brought over 10,000 events to communities across the UK. Independent analysis by More in Common found we reached across the political spectrum - and that more than half of attendees had rarely or never been to a climate event before. That's a public mandate, and it's only getting louder.
Now it's time to bring that mandate to Westminster.
What's happening?
On 3 September, MPs will hold the first Westminster Hall debate on the UK’s national security since this summer’s wildfires and dought - on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and what they mean for the UK's national security. It follows an assessment by the UK's intelligence services on the risks nature loss poses to our food, energy and natural world - and what the Government plans to do about it.
At the same time, the mandate we built this summer is being tested elsewhere too: reports suggest the Government could still approve new North Sea oil and gas, including the Rosebank oil field. Nothing's confirmed - which is exactly why it matters that Andy Burnham's government hears where the country stands, on both fronts, right now.
The mandate for a different path has never been clearer. This year’s Great Big Green Week, 1.6 million people took action for their communities, for nature and for climate. And last summer, 5,000 people signed up to meet their MPs at the Act Now, Change Forever Mass Lobby, speaking to over 200 MPs to show that protecting people, climate and nature isn't a fringe issue - it's a shared priority across regions and political divides.
Image: 5,000 of us backing climate action in Westminster last year; Credit: Richard Dawson/PA
Got 5 minutes? Ask your MP to attend the Westminster Hall debate
With the debate on 3 September, there’s a short window to get your MP in the room. Ask your MP to speak up on 3 September. This debate is a chance for your MP to put your community's views on the parliamentary record and push for ministers to respond in public - and to celebrate what happened near you during Great Big Green Week, if you took part. Our tool drafts the email for you; personalise it with your own Great Big Green Week story and send it straight to your MP.
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Join Hope for the Future and The Climate Coalition on Thursday 20 August, 12:30-1:15pm (online), for a free 45-minute session on how to invite your MP into the 3 September debate - and how to turn your Great Big Green Week story into something they can use when they speak.
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Tell your MP or MSP: Stop Rosebank
A government decision on Rosebank could still come at any time. Uplift's #StopRosebank campaign makes it quick to email - or call, meet or send a postcard to - your MP or MSP asking them to pledge to oppose the Rosebank oil field and back a fair, properly funded transition.
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This is one moment in a longer story of standing up for people, climate and nature - the same story that brought so many of us together during Great Big Green Week and the Mass Lobby. If you want to keep building that power alongside us, join Build. Grow. Lead. Over six months, we'll support you to build or strengthen a community group that can take action all year round and arrive at Great Big Green Week 2027 ready to make it the biggest and best yet.
Together, we've already built the power to be heard
From Great Big Green Week to the Mass Lobby, people across the UK have shown - again and again - that protecting climate and nature is a shared priority, not a fringe one. It is crucial that PM Andy Burnham's government needs to hear that clearly on every front: the mandate for a fair, clean energy future isn't going anywhere, and neither is our resolve to see it delivered.