Author: David Taylor
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Climate Change Adaptation Fund proposed by Brown, Britain to contribute £500M
A global ‘Tobin’ tax on financial transactions should be used to pay for the long battle against global warming, Gordon Brown announced in a joint statement with Nicolas Sarkozy today. The UK would be the biggest contributor, giving £500m pounds a year. The statement came alongside a European Union commitment of €2.4bn a year from…
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Evo Morales – from poverty to power
Exit polls over the weekend put Evo Morales on course for an overwhelming victory in Bolivia’s Presidential election. As the Guardian said in their editorial today, this victory has gone a long way to making the social transformation inside Bolivia irreversible. Such a transformation was unthinkable as recently as nine years ago. Then, Bolivia was…
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Have a break, have a [Fairtrade] Kit Kat
Great news today as Kit Kat, Britain’s biggest selling chocolate biscuit, will go Fairtrade from January. About 1 billion Kit Kats are sold every year in the UK and the switch is set to guarantee a better deal for more than 6,000 Ivorian cocoa farmers. Gareth Thomas MP, our Trade & Development Minister said: “I…
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Sierra Leone Christmas Carol Concert
What: WAYout Christmas Carol Concert When: 19.00, Thursday 17 December Where: St. Giles Church, 60 St. Giles High Street, London WC2H 8LG Tickets: £12. Buy online. WAYout , an arts-based social charity working in Sierra Leone, is putting on a carol concert as a fundraiser in London on Thursday 17 December at St. Giles Church. The African…
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Join The Wave this Saturday + Ed’s Pledge
What: The Wave Climate March When: 11.30 – 16.00, this Saturday 05 December Where: Grosvenor Square, London (meet by the Labour & Unison Banners) On Saturday 5 December 2009, ahead of the crucial UN climate summit in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of people from all walks of life will flow through the streets of London to…
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Gordon Brown’s World AIDS Day message
The African Children’s Choir today made a stop off at Number 10 today to mark World AIDS Day…and were really really cool!! You can hear them by visiting http://africanchildrenschoir.com/ The event was hosted by Gordon Brown & Glenys Kinnock. Please have a look at the PM’s message for World AIDS Day below. “Over the last…
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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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