Posted by bex — 13 December 2011 at 2:52pm
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With
the decision by Canada to pull
out of the Kyoto protocol,
it's clear that the Canadian government cares more about protecting
the polluters (particularly the tar sands industry) than the people.
But our new report shows that the people hold the key to stopping the
growth of tar sands oil production - and investors would be wise to
take note.
Posted by jossc — 20 October 2008 at 10:21am
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As the Rainbow Warrior arrives here to embark on the UK leg of of her worldwide "Quit Coal" tour, activists from another of our ships, Arctic Sunrise, have been busy putting coal in the
hot seat in Italy.
Five of them scaled a 150
metre crane at a new coal-fired power plant in Civitavecchia, near Rome,
to drop a banner highlighting the fact that Italian government
policy effectively opposes the Kyoto Protocol. Meanwhile another five activists painted "No Carbon" and "Quit Coal" in giant letters on the power plant's dock
from an inflatable boat.
Posted by bex — 18 April 2008 at 1:50pm
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Less than a year after the IPCC warned the world that global emissions need to peak within the next 10 years (and then fall sharply), Bush - with much fanfare - has unveiled his new, cunning climate change plan: emit more for the next 17 years, and make sure developing countries help pay for what the US and the industrialised world has already emitted.
His address yesterday came during the latest Major Emitters Meeting - a series of meetings set up by Bush to undermine run in parallel to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change process (the UN's process being inconvenient because it wants mandatory rather than voluntary emissions targets, and says the industrialised world should bear the burden of responsibility for historical emissions).
Last night, a day after George Bush's final State of the Union speech, Greenpeace volunteers in the US used one of their nation's most iconic monuments to paint a clear picture of what his climate change policies will mean for the planet.
Posted by bex — 14 December 2007 at 1:01pm
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The sparks are flying in Bali as the talks enter the final round. After the US tried to derail the negotiations, Al Gore took the stage and lambasted the Bush Administration for blocking negotiations.
"[M]y own country - the U.S. - is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali,'' he said, before urging the delegates to "find the grace to navigate around this enormous obstacle" and move forward without the US.
An extraordinary document leaked to Greenpeace in Bali this evening reveals that the United States is trying to destroy international efforts to tackle climate change.
"Today we are at the crossroads; one path leading towards a comprehensive new climate agreement, and the other towards oblivion."
And until yesterday, things were pottering along OK at the Bali negotiations. We were waiting for ministers from around the world to inject a sense of urgency into the negotiations, and to secure the much-needed commitments for industrialised countries to cut emissions by 25 to 40 per cent by 2020, and for all countries to halve emissions by 2050.
