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  • Huhne can easily stay in Cancun: Call Ming or Charles!

    Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne today risked embarrassing the UK delegation at the UNFCCC talks in Cancun by threatening to return home to vote for a large rise in student tuition fees. The UK has taken a lead role in negotiating the future of the Kyoto Protocol. Huhne has attempted

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  • Congratulations to Ed Miliband

    LCID congratulates Ed Miliband MP on becoming the new leader of the Labour Party. We look forward to working with the former Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change to ensure global poverty stays high on the parties agenda in the coming years. During the Leadership campaign we asked Ed about his views on

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  • Leadership candidates back the Robin Hood Tax

    The Labour Campaign for International Development has supported the Robin Hood Tax campaign for a financial transactions tax from the start. We asked all five leadership candidates their opinion on the Robin Hood Tax when we interviewed them recently. You can watch their answers below, and see all five interviews in full here. To keep

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  • Watch: LCID Interviews Ed Miliband

    Today is the last day in our series of Labour Leadership videos. Each of the candidates has answered your questions on camera. Today hear from Ed Miliband, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change. What do you think about his answers? What else would you ask the Labour Leadership candidates? If you’ve still

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  • A comparison of Labour & Conservative positions on international development

    With only months to go until the next election, international development has not been high on the political agenda. The Copenhagen summit and the issues raised there relating to international development have brought some much needed attention to the area. But this must be built upon and in particular the threat of a Tory government

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  • Review of Copenhagen

    (First posted on Labour List) As Douglas Alexander wrote on this site a couple of months ago, climate change is the defining test of our era. 300 million people are already affected, and if nothing is done to avert it the impact is predicted to be catastrophic for billions of people. The test then, from

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  • Initial Reaction to Copenhagen

    Disappointment all around after the end of the Copenhagen climate change talks. More reaction to follow, but credit has to be given for the tireless work by Gordon Brown & Ed Miliband at these talks, if only Obama and others followed their lead. We have no option but to carry on, and push on and

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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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  • 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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