Month: November 2009
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Reflection on Beyond Copenhagen talk
With little over a week until one of the defining moments of our generation, the Copenhagen summit, a meeting of importance difficult to overplay, tensions are high and nerves fragile. World leaders and the international community face a unique moment to rise to the challenge and set out a strong message on climate change. With…
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Talk tonight on Beyond Copenhagen with Douglas Alexander, Oxfam & Greenpeace
What: “Beyond Copenhagen” Talk by Compass When: 19:00 to 20:30, Tonight Where: Houses of Parliament Tonight there will be a talk by the Labour pressure group Compass on where next after the climate change talks in Copenhagen. Douglas Alexander & Oxfam’s Campaigns & Policy Director Phil Bloomer will be on the panel, so it should…
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Douglas Alexander launches advent calendar
Douglas Alexander, Desmond Tutu & the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu today launched the Church of England’s 2009 online Advent calendar. The online Advent calendar encourages people to take time out to slow down and consider your lifestyle (such as buying Fairtrade!) with daily challenges and thoughts. The website contains a range of reflections,…
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Interesting article on Labour List on climate change & Angola
This article on Labour List examines what we can learn from Angola’s efforts to rebuild its society, following decades of civil war, in helping us in the UK change our society and economy so that we can avert climate catastrophe. “Imagine if local communities could set the priorities, visions and goals for how they might…
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Walking to Copenhagen
Push, Oxfam’s Global Climate Change Campaigner, is walking from his home in Oxford to the Copenhagen for the crunch UN climate change talks happening in two weeks time. On Sunday I joined Push on one day of his walk, an 11mile stretch from Hertford to Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire. Push has always been an inspritation…
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Make 0.7% aid spending UK law
In 2005, due largely to campaigning by many of us as part of the Make Poverty History campaign, world leaders promised to increase aid spending to 0.7% of their Gross National Income. Labour is tripling our aid budget and is committed to reaching the target by 2013. Now we need to make that promise a…
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Hello + please get involved!
Labour Campaign for International Development is a new group that has just been set up by a few Labour Party activists (including me David Taylor, Co-operative Party Youth NEC, and Tim Shand, PPC for Guildford) with to promote international development policies within the Labour Party & the Government, and encourage people campaigning to end poverty…
Labour Campaign for International Development 