Tag: gordon brown
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We will not turn our back on the world’s poor – Gordon Brown
Posted on Global Poverty Promise.com Five years ago, millions of us took part in the Make Poverty History Campaign. Everyone from rock stars, to church leaders, to members of the public mobilised to make 2005 a turning point in the fight against global poverty. Despite the horror of the 7/7 attacks on London, the G8
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Prime Minister criticises climate change skeptics as group to fund developing countries launched
Gordon Brown has criticised climate change sceptics as going “against the grain” of all the scientific evidence, as he launched a new group to raise the money promised by developed countries at Copenhagen. The United Nations High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing will be co-chaired by the Prime Minister and Meles Zenawi, the
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Tories call Robin Hood tax “hopelessly naive” – despite its backing by world economists
Our latest post for Left Foot Forward. It is just two days since the “Robin Hood” tax launched and already 23,000 people have voted in favour on the campaign’s online poll: 13,000 signed up by email and 21,500 joined the Facebook Fan page. The Financial Times reported yesterday that Gordon Brown believes the IMF will
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LCID Launch Tonight!
Later today, the Labour Campaign for International Development will have its official launch in an event at the House of Commons. This is an exciting day for LCID: we have already begun the debate about International Development on this website and now we have the chance to push forward, to gain support for a progressive,
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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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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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Global Leadership Shown on Aids
World Aids Day: A time to remember the lost and for the world to take action to ensure a preventable disease ravaging many developing countries doesn’t blight future generations. I started working on HIV and Aids with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in South Africa in 2005. The country was in the midst of a
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