On Sunday 21st January, we'll be holding both the Campaign against Climate Change AGM and also our trade union group AGM. Both will be online. Our supporters are welcome to attend both or just one.

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In 2023 our planet experienced unprecedented heating, breaking global temperature records by huge margins. In the face of this, there has also been a backlash against climate action in the UK, leading to Sunak's damaging backtracking. This year, the coming UK election does bring hope for desperately needed change. However, the power of vested interests cannot be underestimated. They push for the continuation of 'business as usual', but we know this is a myth. Inevitably, radical change faces us, whether it brings social justice and environmental protection, or further widens the gap between rich and poor in a climate changed world.

We'll be looking forward to 2024 and the fight to get the UK to finally kick its fossil fuel addiction. How can we get the Labour Party to commit to real investment in a climate just future, and how can we fight fossil fuel greenwash? This is a global struggle too. Amid mass protests for Palestine, the links between climate justice, neocolonial militarism and the fossil fuel industry are clearer than ever. 

In our trade union group AGM these themes will continue to shape the discussion, but with a focus on the dividing lines in the trade union movement right now, and how to overcome these; building a clear consensus on climate change as a class issue, and looking towards our conference on 13 April.

10.00-11.10: Campaign against Climate Change AGM

Note - the formal business, although important, takes up a relatively brief part of the agenda! We use the AGM to debate current issues, looking back at the campaign's activities in the past year, and plans for the year ahead.

As part of our AGM, we elect members of the steering group of the campaign. The steering group meets around 5 times a year and is responsible for the strategic direction and financial management of the Campaign against Climate Change. Steering group members should support the general approach of the campaign, represent across the group as a whole a diversity of experience, skills and interests and have enough time to be able to contribute some practical help between meetings.

If you wish to stand for the campaign's steering group, or one of the officer positions (Chair, Treasurer or Secretary) you will need to send your name, with the names of your proposer and seconder (who should also be campaign members) to claire@campaigncc.org by 14th January. Any members who are interested in joining the steering group and would like to know more about what is involved are welcome to email before then for an informal chat. 

Any motions submitted (they should be brief) also need a proposer and seconder and should be submitted by the same deadline.

11.20-12.30: Campaign against Climate Change trade union group AGM.

As above, the CACCTU AGM is also focused on discussion and planning for the year ahead.

If you wish to stand for one of the officer positions of the trade union group (Chair, Treasurer or Secretary) you will need to send your name, with the names of your proposer and seconder to climatetradeunion@gmail.com by 14th January.