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Climate Change is one of our main areas of concern. GFFOE are actively supporting the work of our local councils in the need to reduce carbon emissions and build resilience. GFFOE have a representative on the Gosport Climate Change Partnership and we attend meetings and make regular deputations to the Fareham Borough Council Climate Change Scrutiny Panel. The deputations are available for you to read if you scroll to the bottom of this page.
We also have a representative on the Hampshire County Council Expert Stakeholder Forum on Climate Change We actively support the work of the South East Climate Alliance ( SECA) SECA on Facebook and the Hampshire Climate Action Network ( HCAN) : HCAN on Facebook |
Climate Action Statistics for Gosport
Gosport Borough Council Climate Change
Gosport Climate Change Partnership
Gosport Borough Council Climate Change
Gosport Climate Change Partnership
Climate Action Statistics for Fareham
Fareham Borough Council Climate Change Website
Fareham Borough Council Climate Change Scrutiny Panel
Fareham Borough Council Climate Change Website
Fareham Borough Council Climate Change Scrutiny Panel
Hampshire Council Council Climate Change information
Hampshire County Council Expert Stakeholder Forum on Climate Change
Hampshire County Council Expert Stakeholder Forum on Climate Change
Gosport & Fareham Friends of the Earth at "The Big One" Climate Demonstrations 21-24 April 2023
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5 of our members attended one or more days of the Big One [link https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-big-one/], an event organised by XR where many groups including GFFOE held politicians to account. We wanted them to know, we didn't (entirely!) have faith that they would act to prevent the looming disaster that climate, nature and humanity face.
One of our members was helping on Access and Inclusion … so got to be at the front listening to Chris Packham !! One of the first speakers in Parliament Square was a young woman, Tamara Ullyart from Friends of the Earth. Her speech was really moving and she kindly said she would share it and pass it on to people who couldn’t be there/ weren’t able to hear her words.
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GFFoE joined the march from parliament square, which ended with a "Die In" to represent the dawning threat of catastrophic climate change.
Climate march in Portsmouth and "panto on the beach" for COP26
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As part of our activities during COP26 we did a ‘panto on the beach’ and also supported the climate march in Portsmouth:
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In November 2022 in response to COP27, GFFoE took part of the "Global Day of Action for Climate Justice". We updated our panto and performed it in front of the crowd in the Guildhall Square Portsmouth after carrying banners and placards on the march through the city centre. There is an account of the whole day on the Blog page.
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The ‘climate stripes’ graphic was made at Reading by climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins: Annual temperatures in central England from 1772-2017:
The graphic, first produced in 2017, uses a coloured stripe to represent the global average temperature for each year since 1850, with blue for cooler temperatures and red for hotter years. The thick band of deep red stripes that appear towards the right end of the graphic are a stark visual representation of how human action has heated the climate over time. The colour scale goes from 7.6°C (dark blue) to 10.8°C (dark red). |
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