Tag: Climate Change
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Population v Climate Change
Interesting article by Duncan Green, Oxfam’s Head of Policy, in the New Statesman this week. “People cause climate change, therefore cut the number of people. Right? Not really. A closer look shows that the conventional view is wrong, or at least a gross over-simplification.” “The population debate matters, especially in these two Copenhagen weeks, because
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Fabians expose Tories “We were against the Copenhagen development deal before we were for it” say Tories
The Tories International Development spokesperson slags off new Brown’s new Copenhagen pledge, only for Greg Clark, Climate Change Shadow minister, to back it 8 minutes later. Thanks to The Fabian Society General Secretary, Sunder Katwala, on Next Left, for highlighting this: “Tory DFID spokesman Andrew Mitchell has attacked the EU’s pledge on Copenhagen development assistance
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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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Copenhagen is an opportunity for International Development too
There is welcome news of a $10 billion fund to support countries to develop their capacities to deal with climate change and it is vital that this fund becomes properly entrenched in the climate change regime. But why do we need it? Why do we, in the West, have to bail out ‘third world’ countries…
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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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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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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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