At your lobby, please ask your MP:

1. to support our international, national and your local policy demands, and
2. to write to David Cameron and Chris Huhne (Secretary of State at DECC) expressing their support for these demands.

There’s more detail below on what we’re asking the Government to do, and to help you get these issues across to you MP, please use the resources below:

• Briefing on our policy asks to hand in to your MP
• Letter to modify and hand into your MP (various versions)
• Lobby script: to help you get your points across

Please remember you are not expected to be experts! If your MP asks a question that you don't know the answer to, it's OK to say you don't know, and offer to get back to them.

International action

The lobby will take place three weeks before the UN Climate Talks in Cancun, Mexico. At Cancun, the government must:

• Support the establishment of one common climate fund to help developing countries adapt to climate change, develop in a low carbon way and protect their forests.
• Support and champion new and innovative sources of finance; including revenue from measures to tackle aviation and shipping emissions, and a levy on financial transactions, because these public funds can leverage the trillions of dollars of private finance needed.
• Reinforce the UK’s integrity in climate negotiations by guaranteeing that UK money going towards the costs of adaptation by developing countries will be provided as grants rather than loans, and push other donors to do likewise.

For a simple explanation of international finance, check out WWF's video.

Domestic action

In November the Energy Bill* will be in preparation. It must include:

Energy efficient homes

• A legal minimum energy efficiency standard for the private rented sector so that by 2016 at the latest, no home with an energy performance rating below Bands F&G (the most unhealthy homes) can be let without being improved to a higher standard.
• A strong Green Deal using the pay as you save approach and other supportive measures to ensure there are no homes below Band D by 2020 and 7 million homes in the UK have had an energy efficiency makeover reducing their emissions by at least 60 per cent.

Fossil fuel energy: Enabling legislation so a strong Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) for fossil fuel power stations can be set to enable delivery of a decarbonised electricity supply by 2030. An EPS would set a limit on the amount of CO2 a power station can emit per unit of energy produced, ensuring that future electricity from fossil fuels is more efficient, and ruling out the most polluting power stations.

For a simple explanation of these issues, check out WWF's videos on energy efficiency in homes and greener electricity.

*Please note the Energy Bill hasn’t yet been tabled, so at this stage we are lobbying for these things to be included in the bill, rather than lobbying for amendments.

Local Action

Local lobbyists will show their MP how the climate asks are connected to local issues, and of course if there are any local issues of concern that are connected to climate change, this will be a great opportunity to bring them up.

You can download the Scottish asks for MPs (in PDF) here.