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The management of the campaign is undertaken by the elected steering committee, the members of which also do a lot of practical work organising events, etc. 

The office itself is run on a shoestring - Claire James is the Campaigns Coordinator (part-time), assisted by volunteers.

Of course, the campaign is more than just the people listed on this page - it also includes everyone who is active in our campaigning, either regularly or on an occasional basis and supporters who, paying a few pounds a month each, make our vital work possible. Find out more about becoming a member.

The CCC Steering Committee

Suzanne Jeffery, Chair

Suzanne Jeffery is Chair of Campaign against Climate Change and the trade union group. She is long standing environmental activist and trade unionist. She is editor of ‘Climate Jobs: building a workforce for the climate emergency’, which argues for urgent action to create millions of climate jobs to transform and transition our workforce to tackle the climate and ecological crisis.She has been centrally involved with organising a major trade union mobilisation across the UK for the COP26 protests, helping build a movement that can demand, deliver and transform our society and push aside the interests that block this is the most urgent and necessary priority of our time.

Claire James, Secretary

Claire James has been active with the campaign since 2008, and has worked part-time in the office as Campaigns Coordinator since 2014 (the only paid member of staff in the campaign) She co-organised the 2015 Time to Act march which brought 20,000 out on the streets to call for climate action, as well as other CACC events since. She has worked with coalitions across the climate movement.

Rebecca Warren, Treasurer

Rebecca is an accountant and an environmental and human rights campaigner, and is treasurer and financial adviser to several organisations.

Peter Deane

Pete is active in Biofuelwatch and Latin American solidarity groups, linking campaigns to ensure that climate campaigning reflects the reality of those on the frontline of climate impacts and energy exploitation in the Global South.

Martin Empson

Martin is a long standing member of Campaign Against Climate Change. He is the treasurer of the campaign's trade union group and helped initiate the Million Climate Jobs campaign. Martin is a socialist, based in Manchester and has written on questions relating to the environment and capitalism as well as the social movements needed to stop environmental disaster.

John Sinha

Fliss Premru

Fliss Premru is a trade union and climate activist, a member of both TSSA and RMT TfL branches, and has been active in pushing climate justice and climate jobs policies in both the trade union and labour movement for a decade. 

Tony Staunton

Tony Staunton has been a climate activist and socialist in the trade union movement for more than three decades, working to develop policies to combat climate change and for a just transition from carbon industries. He has organised within the World Social Forum alongside climate scientists and speaks on the systemic changes required to prevent runaway global heating. Tony builds anti-nuclear and climate events and actions in the South West of England. He continues as a trade union environmental representative, the President of Plymouth Trades Union Council and is the national vice-Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

Ellen Robottom

Ellen is a contributing author to the CACCTU publication "Climate Jobs: Building a workforce for the climate emergency", and active in her Unite Community union branch and local trades council. She has helped organise, and spoken at, many public meetings and conferences on themes of worker-led transition, greenwash and false jobs claims of polluting industries, and is involved with several groups campaigning against developments such as CCS, fossil hydrogen and wood biomass power, focusing on both the technologies and the alternative jobs required to meet the labour needs of a socially just and redistributive transition. A key interest is in building movement capacity and alliances between groups working in diverse ways on connected social and climate justice issues, including between union activists and social movement and community actors.

Tahir Latif

Tahir Latif was, until the covid pandemic when he took voluntary redundancy from his day job, a trade union rep for the Public and Commercial Services union.  He was a member of the PCS National Executive and President of the PCS Aviation Group.  Currently he is the Secretary of the Greener Jobs Alliance, and Chair of trustees for the arts-activist charitable organisation Platform London.  Tahir is an environmental and political activist, with a particular focus on aviation issues and transport generally.

James Thompson

James is a Green Party member and active in South East Unison. He is active with Ashdown Forest XR and developing a local coalition of climate activists in his town of East Grinstead. He is also currently studying for a masters in Sustainability and Ecology at the Centre for Alternative Technology.

Liz Wheatley

Liz has campaigned about the climate emergency for a number of years, particularly in her workplace and trade union, UNISON, organising mass rallies and meetings at work particularly in solidarity with the school students who took action before the pandemic. She has also raised the climate emergency in her union at a national level, and at the TUC, where she was involved in the resulting Year of Climate Activism that has been agreed for 2026. She has spoken on behalf of UNISON at a number of meetings and rallies.

Sam Mason

Sam has been a long-standing climate, environmental and trade union activist. As a former trade union policy officer working on just transition, 'greening' workplaces and energy democracy, she has a specific interest in fighting for climate and social justice for workers and communities.

Sacha Ismail

Sacha has been a socialist activist in the labour movement for many years, and particularly active in labour movement climate campaigning since 2019. He works in the fire and rescue service and is active in both UNISON and the Fire Brigades Union; He recently took part, alongside other CACC members, in the UK trade union solidarity delegation to support the Italian ex-GKN workers occupying their factory site in Campi Bisenzio and their struggle for socially controlled, ecological production. Sacha previously worked for climate-oriented aviation workers' group Safe Landing, and was involved in the Unite Grassroots Climate Justice Caucus. He is trade union officer of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign and lives in London.

Julie Forgan

Julie has been the environmental officer for my trade union branch and have been active in the climate movement in York for a number of years. She has been part of coordinating various actions aimed at highlighting the climate catastrophe and demonstrating the collective action that could make the systemic change that is needed.