Blog: Climate

Indonesia gets its own climate change camp

Posted by jamie — 24 October 2007 at 1:42pm - Comments

The Forest Defenders Camp in Sumatra, Indonesia

Climate change and deforestation are inextricably linked. Forest destruction contributes around one-fifth of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transport sector, and the problem is so severe that Indonesia and Brazil are ranked third and fourth respectively in the list of top emitting countries, mainly because of deforestation.

It's against this background that our latest Forest Defenders Camp opened a couple of weeks ago on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, located on the frontline where the peatland forest is being cleared for palm oil plantations. Palm oil is used in hundreds of food and cosmetic products, as well as biofuels.

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Why you should act on climate change (whether or not you believe it's real)

Posted by bex — 23 October 2007 at 2:28pm - Comments

Thanks to a few of our Facebook friends for this one - why it makes sense to act on climate change, whether or not you believe it's real:

 

 

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Brown's plans to scupper Europe's climate deal

Posted by bex — 23 October 2007 at 11:55am - Comments

Gordon Brown
Update: our executive director John Sauven has written on why Gordon Brown's reluctance to embrace the economic and environmental potential of renewable energy technology is costing us time, money and could eventually cost us the climate here.

 

British prime ministers have a longstanding tradition of taking on the less savoury characteristics of their US counterparts pretty soon after coming to office. For Blair, it was a propensity towards using weapons of mass destruction. For Brown, it's trying to scupper vital climate change deals.

On the same day that scientists have shown that carbon emissions are accumulating far more quickly than predicted, leaked documents reveal that Labour wants to work with the nuclear-obsessed French and the climate-sceptic Polish presidents to undermine a vital European deal on renewable energy. The deal - to generate 20 per cent of energy from renewables by 2020 - was only finalised by European leaders including Tony Blair earlier this year.

Article tagged as: climate change, gordon brown, nuclear power, renewable energy

Over and out from Kingsnorth

Posted by bex — 10 October 2007 at 6:06pm - Comments

Over and out

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Phew, what a couple of days - there are lots of exhausted (not to mention dust covered) faces in the office today.

On Monday morning, we took over Kingsnorth coal fired power plant to say no to a new coal rush in the UK, and yes to a sane, clean energy future. That evening, E.ON served an injunction and the people locked onto the conveyor belt were arrested and taken into custody. Meanwhile, the climbers on the chimney began painting a message to Gordon, going strong until the light failed them.

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, direct actions, energy, gordon brown, kingsnorth

Kingsnorth: more arrests and the first few releases from custody

Posted by bex — 9 October 2007 at 5:21pm - Comments
Going over the edge

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Just a very short update from Kingsnorth:

The chimney crew are all down; they were arrested when they reached the bottom. The conveyor belt team were held overnight and most of them are still in police custody, although I've just heard that five of them have been released. We reckon the rest of the conveyor belt team will be released in the next few hours.

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, direct actions, energy, kingsnorth
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