GREENS GET CLIMATE & NATURE MOTION PASSED
At last night’s full council, Green Cllr Amanda Jobson saw her motion for Hastings Borough Council to back the Parliamentary Climate & Nature (CAN) Bill finally voted through, having been delayed since July.
In an impassioned speech introducing the motion, Cllr Jobson said, “This bill is already backed by 250 cross-party MPs and peers. 1200 scientists have written to Parliament. Here in Hastings, floods, coastal erosion and landslides have already impacted lives. In 2019, we declared a climate emergency… now, business as usual is not good enough.”
Cllr Jobson urged all councillors to join her in backing her motion. She concluded, “I’m doing this for my children, and for future generations.”
The motion includes a commitment to support the CAN Bill and urge MP Helena Dollimore, who has not yet pledged her support, to do the same. It also commits the council to setting up a Climate Action working group, create a Climate Adaptation plan and seek funding for climate action. The motion was passed with 17 votes For, 0 Against, and 11 abstentions.
The decision was met with cheers from Standing Up For Nature campaigners in the public gallery.