Posted by jamie — 26 June 2009 at 3:46pm
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It's been a long time since there were polar
bears at London Zoo, but the famous attraction still houses many other species
which are threatened by the effects of climate change. So I can't help but
wonder whether this fact registered with Gordon Brown (himself an endangered
species) as he stood up at the zoo to present his blueprint for a global climate
action plan.
Posted by jossc — 26 June 2009 at 11:19am
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With December's crucial Copenhagen climate change summit fast approaching, we talk to 350.org founder Bill McKibben about the politics of climate change in the US, the challenges of building a successful mass movement, and how we set about not only restricting the amount of new CO2 we're pumping into the atmosphere, but reducing the levels that are already there.
350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit
for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere - it's measured in "Parts Per Million".
So below 350 ppm is where we need to be to avoid runaway climate change. Currently the figure is around 390 and rising.
350.org will coordinate an international day of action on October 24 at hundreds of iconic places around the world - from the Taj Mahal to the Great Barrier Reef - with the aim of sparking a global movement to unite the public, media, and our political leaders behind the 350 goal.
Responding to
news today that offshore wind farms in the UK
could power 19m homes, Dr Doug Parr, Greenpeace chief scientist,
said:
"Offshore wind
farms must be a key part of the UK's future energy supply. And they
won't just generate electricity, they'll also generate thousands of British jobs
and help tackle energy security.
"But if
Britain is to get all the benefits
that offshore wind will provide, the government must do more to support the
industry."
Hundreds of pilots,
stewardesses, train drivers and passengers will attempt to form the biggest
human "NO" ever seen at Glastonbury festival at midday on Saturday, in
protest at the government's plans for airport
expansion.
Posted by jamie — 24 June 2009 at 12:36pm
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Greenpeace volunteers in Hong
Kong have been protesting about the lack of effort the territory's
government has put into tackling climate change. On Monday, a team dropped a
huge, seven-storey banner down the front of a government office building marking
out chief executive Donald Tsang as a 'climate fugitive'.
A dramatic stand-off at Kingsnorth power station in Kent has ended after four Greenpeace campaigners, who boarded a coal freighter bound for the power station last night, came down from the foremast after being served with an injunction.
Greenpeace volunteers intercepted the freighter using rigid inflatable speedboats just after midnight this morning. As the ship sped towards Kingsnorth the campaigners attached climbing ladders to the vessel and scaled the 15 metre hull.
