Tag: ed’s pledge
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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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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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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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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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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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