Want Manchester City Council to declare a climate emergency? There is a new petition on Manchester City Council’s website that you can sign if you live, work or study in Manchester (registration required, but takes about 1 minute: see here).

We the undersigned petition the Council to declare a climate emergency, with a target to be “zero carbon” by the year 2030, with a proportionate share of Manchester Airports emissions (35.5 percent owned by the Council) included in the carbon budget it sets.

• Create a pinned tweet on your twitter feed with text along the lines of this below I’ve signed the petition calling for #Manchester City Council to declare a #climate emergency. If you live, work or study in Manchester, you can (should!) too.  https://bit.ly/2uBnnFS And tag people into it who you think will sign it/give it a signal boost.
• Repost it on facebook
• Change your twitter/facebook photo to something like this.
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• Having an email signature that says, well – I’ve signed the petition calling for Manchester City Council to declare a climate emergency. If you live, work or study in Manchester, you can (should!) too.  https://bit.ly/2uBnnFS
• Encourage your friends, family and acquaintances to do so
• Make a short video (use your phone) explaining why you signed, why it’s important to you, encouraging your friends to do the same, and then posting online
• Encouraging any groups you are part of to include the existence of the petition in every newsletter/digest they send out
• Encourage other people to make videos
• Other suggestions welcome!