Introduce climate change legislation urgently with an ambitious emissions reduction target.    Read our blog about the tale of two NI Climate Change Bills and current progress towards a Climate Change Act
 

Strong and solutions-driven leadership across all sectors to respond to climate change
 

Take personal responsibility - we can each make simple changes to help reduce our carbon footprint and to help nature adapt to climate change.  We can also support everyone to become ‘carbon literate’   and have climate conversations - talk to your family, your friends, your colleagues
 

Create plans to help us all prepare for the effects of a changing climate (‘adaptation planning’) 
 

Protect and restore our peatlands. Use evidence to target restoration and stop peatland greenhouse gas emissions and turn these areas into ‘net negative’ emissions 

Protect and restore wetlands and blue carbon habitats- for example saltmarsh, seagrass, shellfish reefs, sediments 

Develop a land use strategy that addresses both the biodiversity and climate crises- recognising how nature plays a vital role in locking away carbon as well as in reducing the local effects of a changing climate e.g. flood risks. Read more about the challenges and opportunities for land use on our blog 

Create new nature networks to help wildlife adapt to climate change and to help reduce impacts of climate change on people – in towns, cities and the countryside 

Support farmers to become ‘carbon custodians’ through new agri-environment schemes 

Champion renewable energy both at land and sea, and choose green energy options for our homes & business - but use these schemes to also help nature by creating special wildlife habitats