Submitted on Monday 8th October 2018
Rejected on Monday 15th October 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Climate change should have a mandatory headline & link on news websites
Climate change can never be old news.
Every middle to top-tier news, current affairs or entertainment site should have a periodic headline focused on climate change, or the need to challenge it.
On October 8th, 2018, many news sites carried a story from the IPCC explaining the catastrophic consequences facing Earth if climate change is not challenged.
Tomorrow, this news story will be gone and replaced by a wealth of new and relevant stories, but a lot of non-entities too.
This petition challenges the UK Government to implement a mandatory news headline policy on the landing pages of many news, current affairs, sports and entertainment sites as a bid to raise awareness of what is now a permanent threat.
Press releases, fact sheets, scientific articles could all be used to draw source information to keep the issue current, relevant and to raise awareness.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We cannot accept petitions about matters which are not the responsibility of Government or Parliament.
The Government and Parliament are not responsible for headlines chosen by news websites.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you'd like the Government and Parliament to do. For example, you could start a new petition asking the Government to fund an awareness campaign about climate change, including advertising on news websites, if that's what you'd like to happen.
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