Public and Commercial Services Union

Climate change is becoming a major issue in the workplace and mandatory targets (for example, the Carbon Reduction Commitment) will have implications for working practices. If the rights of working people, and the rights of those most vulnerable as the hardest hit by the effects of climate change, are to be protected during the 21st century trade unionists need to be at the forefront of shaping the low carbon economy.

The good news is trade unionists don’t have to act on their own – Climate Solidarity is a collective Trade Union response to climate change.

Since the project began almost a year ago, PCS members up and down the country have been forming Climate Solidarity action groups, keen to cut their individual carbon emissions and affect wider change in their workplace or local community.

These climate action groups are about leading by example to help make the kind of just and sustainable society we want to live in, and are based around a range of activities with themes including transport, housing and food.

You too can be part of Climate Solidarity: register on the website, fill out the survey and download everything you need to start an action group. Come along to one of the free training courses to help get you off to a flying start.

See the panel to the right for details of upcoming action group training sessions.

PCS partnered the Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN) and three other unions - CWU, NUT and UCU - in the successful bid to Defra’s ‘Greener Living Fund’ for Climate Solidarity and setting up action groups through the workplace will build on and complement existing workplace environmental programmes such as the TUC’s GreenWorkplaces projects and help raise awareness of climate change within branches.

Find out more

For more information visit the Climate Solidarity website.