Blog: There is no future on a dead planet

Green UNISON Week is our time to highlight a once-in-a-generation challenge

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.
Sandra White for the Northern region speaking to conference

UNISON must be ‘proactive’ in greening the NHS, delegates agree

Delegates discuss a trio of motions, with a sense of urgency at the scale of the problem facing the planet

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Blog: Phased down and out at COP26

World leaders are not yet ‘sufficiently prepared’ to take the necessary decisions to cut emissions, says UNISON’s COP26 delegate Stephen Smellie

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The old climate certainties ‘aren’t certain any more’

Jackie Hamer has worked for the Environment Agency for 30 years. Here, she shares her perspectives on how climate change will affect the UK

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Climate talks are leaving workers ‘out in the cold’ warn unions

UNISON adds its voice to concerns that the UK’s own COP president is ignoring ‘just transition’ in the COP26 negotiations

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UNISON launches its blueprint for climate-friendly public services

‘Only by acting now do we put UK public services on the right path to a safe climate future’

UNISON’s climate marchers – in pictures

The union’s members and green activists made their voice heard for a just transition to a greener, safer future

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Blog: ‘Blah blah blah’. But some progress at COP26

UNISON’s delegate to COP26 Stephen Smellie reports on the first week of the climate conference, from inside the halls and on the streets

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Christina McAnea joins climate marchers in Glasgow

UNISON’s general secretary spoke of why ‘it’s so important that all of us, as trade unionists, are taking action in cities across the UK’

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Blog: COP26 is here at last

On the eve of the climate conference, NEC member and green activist Stephen Smellie looks ahead to ‘potentially the most important meeting of world leaders ever held’

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