The numbers are in and sadly they weren’t quite what we were hoping for. Despite the huge amount of emails you sent to MEPs, asking them to support a ban on inefficient light bulbs across the EU (and thank you for that!), not enough signed up to adopt the declaration.
We needed 400 MEPs across Europe to put their names down to this bright idea to take it forward. Yet despite a frantic round of last-minute phone calls from our European campaigners to their MEPs, we only saw 197 signatures before the deadline.
It doesn’t mean this is the end of the road – far from it. We’ll still be lobbying the EU to push for energy efficiency legislation and working on national governments to pull their fingers out. And if you’ve joined the 7steps programme, you’ll already know what else you can do for the energy [r]evolution. If you haven’t, are you waiting for hell to freeze over? No, wait, that doesn’t quite work…