I agree with him when he describes the Climate Change Bill (which was hard fought for by grassroots groups) as "one of the most important pieces of legislation ever to go before the UK Parliament".
But surprise, surprise a funny thing's happened on the way to the statute book - it's been watered down.
What's needed from you and me is pressure to include carbon emissions from international aviation and shipping – the fastest growing sources of emissions – in the bill's targets.
"Excluding them is a bit like going on a diet but not counting the calories from chocolate!" he says.
So WWF plans to build a massive paper boat and paper plane, put all the names of the people who signed the petition on the boat/plan, and then deliver them to the Houses of Parliament.
Your name could be on it, if you click here.!
He adds: "PS: Funnily enough my wife bought me Hybrids recently (she said I spend more time with my laptop then with her but thats just not true.... ) I didn't have the chance to read it yet but looking forward!"
While we're on the subject I've also been asked by the Energy Saving Trust to encourage people to pledge to commit to save their 20% of their energy use.
Currently only 106,000 have signed up, and they aim to reach one million by Christmas!
Energy Saving Week is next week, so I suppose I'll be banging on about this again then.
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