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Tackling climate change
With more than 1.3 million members across the public services and utilities, we believe UNISON has a major role to play in helping to tackle global warming, by:
- greening our workplace
- using our experience and expertise to contribute to environmental campaigns
- providing information to members
- melting glaciers and rising sea levels will increase flood risk and then threaten water supplies for one sixth of the world's population
- declining crop yields will leave hundreds of millions without the ability to produce or provide sufficient food
- damage to our ecosystems could result in 40 % of species facing extinction
- increasing economic costs of climate change could amount to a 20 % reduction in consumption per head. All of us will be one fifth poorer.
How do you play your part?
- Check out our handy Greening the workplace toolkit
- Follow the top tips for action your branch can take
- Visit the I Count website and put yourself on the map
- sign up to our environment at work network and receive our regular newsletter Green UNISON
- become a trade union environmental representative.
To sign up to our network please send an email to greenunison@unison.co.uk
CONTACT DETAILS
• Green UNISON
David Arnold, National Officer.
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1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
• Green UNISON
David Arnold, National Officer.
Email us
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
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Resources
Working on change
The trade union movement and climate change.
Working on change
Become an environmental rep
Job description and the main areas of responsibility for trade union environmental representatives.
Job description (word doc)
Model environment and climate change agreement
Model joint environment and climate change agreement for use between employers and unions. Developed by the TUC.Model agreement (word doc)
10 things you can do at work
A simple printable sheet listing ten effective measure to make your workplace more green.10 things you can do at work
10 tips for organising
A document outlining ten step to a green agenda.10 tips for organising
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