United Kingdom
In United Kingdom, Extinction Rebellion spokespersons including Roger Hallam are standing as Climate & Ecological Emergency Independents in the European Union elections. The candidates are inspired by the Youth Strikes 4 Climate, Greta Thunberg and the Extinction Rebellion movement. Their collective actions have created a shift in public awareness around the need to urgently act on the climate emergency. They want to take this kind of energy to Europe, to demonstrate a different kind of politics that goes beyond party politics. A politics that is more human and ordinary and says, “In the face of climate collapse, we can face this together.” The group has three aims: 1. The Council of Ministers and the European Parliament must tell the truth and take action to declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency. 2. The Declaration on a Climate and Ecological Emergency must demand a zero carbon Europe by a date no later than 2030. 3. National Citizen Assemblies on Climate & Ecological Justice must be instituted and have a leading role in shaping a zero carbon Europe.”Climate Emergency Candidates in Britain
Independents for London MEP constituency • Daze Aghaji, 19, student at Goldsmiths University • Claudia McDowell, 21 • Henry Muss BSc, MSc, working for the Public Health team at London borough • Andrew Medhurst, worked in financial services (HSBC, Lloyds Bank) for over 30 years • Zoe Lafferty, theatre director • Roger Hallam, organic farmer, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion • Kofi Mawuli Klu, jurisconsult in self-employment, eco-pedagogy global citizenship educationist and researcher Independents for South West MEP constituency • Dr Larch Maxey LLB, MSc, PhD • Mothiur Rahman, co-founder of the Community Chartering NetworkSweden
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Coordinator of the international #FridaysForFuture movement
Jytte Guteland (S)
Gita Nabavi (Fi)
Gustav Hemming (C)
Liza-Maria Norlin (KD)
Malin Björk (V)
Pär Holmgren (MP)
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See www.climateemergency.ukParents in the EU are doing perhaps the most important thing they can for their kids- choosing to #VoteClimate. Every election must be a climate election. https://t.co/xOQemfESLA
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→ BBC News – 17 May 2019: European elections 2019: Why adults are giving kids their vote “Lilly Platt is too young to vote in the upcoming European Parliament election. The 11-year-old won’t be eligible to do so until 2026, when she turns 18. Yet her grandfather, 79-year-old Jim Platt, has found a way for her voice to be heard.”