Warm this Winter

There is an escalating cost-of-living crisis, an energy crisis, and an ongoing climate emergency. These crises are connected. They share common causes, like fossil fuels, which are making them all worse. They also share solutions that can help us get out of this mess, like mass insulation of Welsh homes and investment in low-cost, clean, renewable energy. Urgent help is needed now for people suffering and we must rapidly scale-up, long-term robust solutions.

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Join with us to campaign for our futures, to lower your bills and secure warmer, cleaner, greener energy that we can all benefit from. Let’s put the dirty, polluting fossil fuel era to bed for good. Our futures depend on it. The shared solutions to these crises have high levels of public support and provide additional opportunities to solve boader soical problems and improve lives.

Our Homes & the Cost of Living – a summary of our collective demands:

Immediate and adequate emergency support: Warm Homes for All.
Adopt a ‘Help to Repay’ scheme to address Fuel Debt.
Introduce an Emergency Energy Tariff for Winter 2024/25.
Expand the Priority Service Register.
Reform standing charges costing and introduce a social tariff.
Support households to have more efficient, warmer homes – where ever they are.
Access to and the right to housing: Back the Bill.
Implement private sector rent freezes and ban no fault evictions.

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Freeing us from Fossil Fuels – a summary of our collective demands:

Support the Fossil Free Treaty.
Close the loopholes and ban coal mining in Wales – oppose Bedwas and Glan Lash applications.
Divest all public pensions from fossil fuels and the military industry.
Make meaningful gains in reducing societal dependency on coal, oil and gas.
Plan a just transition for steelworkers and other high emitting industries.

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Our Renewable Futures – a summary of our collective demands:

Bring forward A Renewable Energy (Wales) Bill or Community Energy Benefit Bill in the next Senedd term so that:
1. All new commercial energy projects to have mandated local ownership.
2. 15% of commercial projects are community owned by 2028.
Reform ‘Community Benefit’ funding guidance.
Enact a range of measures to propel community owned, community energy can carve a path forward for communities across Wales.

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We are working with key stakeholders and lobbying Welsh Government to make sure they do everything they can, within their devolved powers, both to help people with their immediate suffering and to provide a genuine pathway to a better future. Wales must be bold and lead.

We are now working and campaigning across 3 areas:

Wondering what you can do?

If you are affected by any of the issues above – please get in touch. helo@climate.cymru
Sign any and all of these petition – Restore the Winter Fuel Payments for Pensioners, Oppose new Coaling in Bedwas (S Wales) Endorse the Fossil Free Treaty and then join our Wales wide group.
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Keep an eye on our socials.

Get the latest news:

We took your voice to the Senedd and a Climate Change Committee Enquiry on Restoration of Open Cast Coal Mines (Aug 2024)
Recommendations to Ofgem on Prepayment Meters (PPMs) scandal [Statutory Consultation: July 2023]
Warm This Winter MS Champions announced [Press Release: July 2023]
Unanimous support in Welsh Parliament to keep people warm this winter [Press Release: June 2023]
Almost 200 people died in Wales as a result of living in cold damp homes last winter [Press release – Jan 2023]
Good Green jobs for all. Roundtable event organised by Climate Cymru and the Wales TUC. [Press release – Jan 2023]
Climate Cymru’s Warm This Winter petition hand in to the Welsh Government [Press release – March 2023]
Energy bills – People will still be paying double what they did in 2020 [Press release – May 2023]
Why emailing your local politician makes change happen [Blog post – May 2023]

Any questions?

Email: helo@climate.cymru

We asked our network to tell us what Welsh and UK governments should do to address these interlocking crises, and here are their demands:

1. Emergency support for vulnerable household
2. An ambitious energy efficiency programme
3. A rapid scale-up of low-cost renewable
4. Free us from fossil fuels

We are aligned with a UK-wide campaign which has broad support from anti-poverty and environmental organisations.

Your voice matters

If you haven’t done so already, please sign up to be a part of the network, either as an individual, group, or organisation, and part of shaping a better future for Wales – it’s free and easy to do.

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