Posted by jossc — 23 May 2008 at 11:58am
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The crew of the Rainbow Warrior kicked off a month long "Quit coal" tour around south-east Asia today when they blocked a coal shipment at the Pagbilao coal-fired power plant in Quezon province, south-west of Manila.
Actor Rula Lenska and journalist Rosie Boycott join other celeb mums in a vigil against Heathrow expansion in Parliament Square
As the date for the government's decision on Heathrow's third runway hurtles towards us (they'll be deciding in June or July, we think), a whole gamut of voices has been speaking out against the agenda for airport expansion that will destroy our chances of slowing climate change.
At the risk of sounding like a bad joke, an actress and a bishop (OK then, an archbishop) have both joined the fray, along with several celebrity mums and the head of the Sustainable Development Commission. Eclectic, eh? They're all calling on the government to shelve its plans for airport expansion.
Posted by jamie — 21 May 2008 at 4:13pm
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If you simply can't wait for the new Indiana Jones film released tomorrow (I certainly can), this short film might help ease the tension in which the man with the bullwhip, Harrison Ford, lends a very personal part of himself to the fight against deforestation and climate change. It's either brilliant or grotesque, I can't quite make up my mind, but the old pun 'hair today, gone tomorrow' is definitely appropriate in this instance. But judge for yourself.
This report highlights the urgent need for
global palm oil consumers and investors to support Unilever's call for
an immediate moratorium on deforestation and peatland clearance in
Indonesia.
This report focuses on Unilever,
which shares major institutional investors with other leading
corporations including Nestle, Procter & Gamble and Kraft. Not only
do these corporations share investors, they also share growing carbon
liability within their raw material supply chains through the expansion
in the palm oil sector in Indonesia.
Posted by jamie — 20 May 2008 at 5:28pm
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Gordon Brown has revealed his latest wheeze to try and convince us that underneath that gruff capitalist exterior there beats a heart of purest green. Together with the Met Office, the government has released a Google Earth layer showing the effects of climate change (download Google Earth, then get the layer).
Yesterday, the 'guardian
angel' of Brazil's
environment, Marina Silva, threw
in the towel and quit her post as Brazil's environment minister. She
told President Lula that her efforts to protect the Amazon "were being
thwarted by powerful business lobbies".
Reacting to the release of new figures showing that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is at its highest level for at least 650,000 years, head of Greenpeace's climate change campaign Robin Oakley said:
The parties involved in the expected takeover of British Energy have "little interest in tackling climate change or protecting British taxpayers", said environmentalists today.
Nathan Argent, nuclear campaigner for Greenpeace, said:
"The expected French Government bid to takeover of British Energy will come with huge financial costs, a tiny reduction in carbon emissions and continued confusion over who pays for the clean up of radioactive waste.
