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Save the Date: Operation Noah will hold a prayer service with other Christian charities on Friday 21 April at 12pm at St John’s Church, Waterloo. The service will coincide with the start of ‘The Big One’, a four-day effort to get 100,000 people to stand outside the Houses of Parliament in Central London, peacefully calling for a fair and fast transition away from fossil fuels. We will share more details on the service in the weeks to come. Read more.
Operation Noah Trustee Cameron Conant gave an interview to UCB News last week about our ‘40 Days, 40 Dioceses’ divestment campaign, as well as about the Anglican Communion’s recent call for a moratorium on new fossil fuel projects. Listen here.
1.6 million UK children are living in cold, damp or mouldy homes, according to new research from Citizens Advice. Operation Noah is a supporter of the Warm This Winter campaign, which is calling on the UK Government to offer more support to vulnerable people for their fuel costs and to improve the UK’s poorly insulated housing stock. Read more.
Labour has proposed making clean air a human right. The announcement by the shadow justice secretary came just days after the mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah – the first person in the world to have air pollution listed as a cause of death – marked a decade since her passing. Read more.
The 11 directors of Shell are being personally sued for failing to properly prepare the company for Net Zero. Claimants say Shell’s plan is inadequate to meet climate targets, puts the company at risk and that directors bear responsibility. In 2021, the Church of England’s Pensions Board, which still owns shares in Shell, voted to approve Shell’s Energy Transition Plan which calls for a 20% increase in gas extraction. Read more.
The UK Government’s green heating scheme, which offers households £5,000 to replace their gas boilers with heat pumps, has been heavily criticised in a House of Lords’ report. The Lords warned that take-up of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme is so low that the national target for green heating is very unlikely to be met, with many people in the UK not even knowing what a heat pump is, let alone how to access the grant. Read more.
Operation Noah’s Chair of Trustees, Revd Dr Darrell Hannah, has signed a letter calling on Secretaries of State Michael Gove and Grant Shapps to lift the de facto ban on onshore wind turbines in England. The letter, organised by campaigner and TV presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, says, ‘Responsibly developed onshore wind is one of the cheapest, cleanest and most nature-friendly forms of energy available, and has the power to address climate change and the existential threat it poses to our natural world.’