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Our Grandchildren’s Climate is an organisation of Seniors (not only grandparents) who are working to bring about change and to ensure that the world where future generations grow up will be safe, healthy and just. For more information go to Our Mission
Our EXECUTIVE Group meets on the first Wednesday in even months at 5 pm. We warmly welcome suggestions and comments from a wider public: info@ourgrandchildrensclimate.org.
Our OPEN meetings, open to the public, take place on the first Wednesday in odd months (ie. 4th November, then January) at 5-6.30 pm - usually with a speaker. Please Let us know if you can recommend a suitable speaker or topic for our Open Meetings this autumn. Our ACTIONS Working Group meets monthly on the second Tuesday of the month (8th September, 13th October etc) at 4 pm.
Taking inspiration from Michael Mosley's
"Just one Thing"
DO JUST ONE THING IN SEPTEMBER
OutRAGE Oct 1st 1-3pm 2026 on the International Day for Older People we are holding an action outside Parliament to make our voices heard. Join us to demand that government and all our representatives act now for a liveable and just planet for future generations. We are planning to present a tree decorated with messages from grandchildren of all ages. We will process and we will sing and dance as a group of elders and grandparents between the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero to Parliament pausing briefly by Downing Street to make our voices as older people heard. No Nature, No Future! End fossil fuel extraction! Transition Now to a Fossil Free Future! Don’t fiddle while the planet burns! For more information do contact us at info @ourgrandchildrensclimate.com
The oil basin that is a totem for Trump - and a headache for Britain’s new PM
Click here for a very clear article from The Guardian about the current energy supply crisis. An argument for clean energy profits to go to communities and the public good. And as ever it highlights the power of the international fossil fuel folk!
First Second Conference on Transitioning away from Fossil fuels
We are applying to join the next conference in Tuvalu in 2027, and adding a "grandparent heritage angle." A Tuvalu Minister said of their joint chairing with Ireland in 2027: "We are two island peoples, separated by the width of the world, yet bound together by something deeper. We are both nations shaped by history, by the ocean and by this common cause: to unite the world to transition away from fossil fuels". Full report here. We have told the Irish Government, that we wish to become involved.
Our next Open Meeting will be on Wednesday 4th November at 5 pm. Further details nearer the time.
Picture below: Felix and Milo's contribution. To see more, click here.
Are you listening to the (unsuitable for Bedtime?) Book Wild Dark Shore (Radio 4 Monday to Friday 10.45 pm)? Drama about people trying to keep the world's seed bank dry against sea level rise on the remote island of Shearwater? Will they succeed? (image: BBC)
Some good news for our grandchildren: Parliament passed the UK's Seventh Carbon Budget into law by 332 votes to 94. This mandates an 87% reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions from 1990 levels, and covers the period 2038 to 2042. Do you want to contact your MP and thank them for voting for, or complain if they voted against? Mention OGC if you do. The list of which MPs voted which way is here.
From now on, emissions reductions will depend far more heavily on changes across the wider economy, including the everyday economic activity of all of us. Despite the current controversies (and misunderstandings and lies) around “Net Zero”, we must maintain coordinated action. For the full text of the report read here . The Report summary takes five minutes to read.
