{"id":1258,"date":"2021-04-09T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T07:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2023-11-17T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T08:12:09","slug":"may-6th-elections-abcd-climate-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/2021\/04\/09\/may-6th-elections-abcd-climate-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"MAY 6th ELECTIONS ABCD CLIMATE PLEDGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>So far 66 candidates&nbsp;have signed&nbsp;the ABCD climate action pledge,&nbsp;agreeing, if elected, to press their council to:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A<\/strong>im higher <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>B<\/strong>uild partnerships <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>C<\/strong>ommunicate and&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>D<\/strong>ivest from fossil fuels&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Are your local candidates among them?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are their views on incineration?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/ABCDsignatories\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/ABCDsignatories<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8216;It\u2019s misleading&#8217; to call the electricity low-carbon, says Ann Ballinger of Eunomia, a sustainability consultancy whose clients include the government. &#8216;You are still burning a lot of plastic to get your energy in an incinerator, so that is pretty similar to burning oil.&#8217; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<cite>Source:<br><strong>&#8216;Dirty white elephants: Incinerators were supposed to solve the UK\u2019s waste crisis. Are they making it worse?&#8217;<\/strong><br>SourceMaterial in conjunction with The Telegraph, 4 February 2021. <br>Available from:<br> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.source-material.org\/blog\/dirty-white-elephants (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.source-material.org\/blog\/dirty-white-elephants\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.source-material.org\/blog\/dirty-white-elephants<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>  <br><strong>Official&nbsp;candidate&nbsp;lists&nbsp;are now available on&nbsp;district\/borough council websites.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/seclimatealliance.uk\/abcdpledge\/  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/seclimatealliance.uk\/abcdpledge\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/seclimatealliance.uk\/abcdpledge\/ <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br><\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far 66 candidates&nbsp;have signed&nbsp;the ABCD climate action pledge,&nbsp;agreeing, if elected, to press their council to:&nbsp;&nbsp; Are your local candidates among them?&nbsp; What are their views on incineration?&nbsp; https:\/\/bit.ly\/ABCDsignatories &#8216;It\u2019s misleading&#8217; to call the electricity low-carbon, says Ann Ballinger of Eunomia, a sustainability consultancy whose clients include the government. &#8216;You are still burning a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}