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Tackling climate change

With more than 1.3 million members across the public services and utilities, we believe UNISON has a major role to play in helping to tackle global warming, by:

• greening our workplace
• using our experience and expertise to contribute to environmental campaigns
• providing information to members

• melting glaciers and rising sea levels will increase flood risk and then threaten water supplies for one sixth of the world's population
• declining crop yields will leave hundreds of millions without the ability to produce or provide sufficient food
• damage to our ecosystems could result in 40 % of species facing extinction
• increasing economic costs of climate change could amount to a 20 % reduction in consumption per head. All of us will be one fifth poorer.

• Check out our handy Greening the workplace toolkit
• Follow the top tips for action your branch can take
• Visit the I Count website and put yourself on the map
• sign up to our environment at work network and receive our regular newsletter Green UNISON
• become a trade union environmental representative.