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A silver Airstream 'campaign
plane' embarked on a month-long tour of London
and the Thames Valley this morning to record the voices
of people opposed to expansion at Heathrow. The trailer tour will land across
the capital as the government prepares to launch a consultation into plans for
a third runway at the airport.
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Responding to the Queen's Speech today, John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace, said:
Posted by jossc — 2 November 2007 at 11:09am
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- Heathrow is already Europe's largest airport [i]: adding a third runway will mean a 70 per cent[ii] increase in flight numbers and resulting rises in climate change pollution. It's crazy to be paving the way for such big increases in greenhouse gases when we should be doing all we can to reduce emissions.
Posted by bex — 30 October 2007 at 1:25pm
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Last week, Jamie wrote about our Forest Defenders Camp in Sumatra, Indonesia: the frontline of where peatland forest is being cleared for palm oil
plantations.
Well, this week our volunteers out there are busy trying to stop the destruction of an area of swamp forest. Working with local communities, they're building dams across the canals that are used in logging and draining peatland.
From our international site:
Thick layers of peat underlie most of Indonesia's swamp forest. Over time, the peat layer has locked up millions of tonnes of carbon. Once forests are cleared, peat swamps are drained and decompose to release the stored carbon as carbon dioxide. Forests are often also burned, prior to the planting of palm oil saplings, further compounding the climate problem.
Posted by bex — 30 October 2007 at 11:49am
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A tad belated but I just couldn't let this one pass. Last week, these words emerged from France's environmental policymaking forum:
"From now on, every major public project, every public decision will be judged on its effect on climate, and on its carbon cost. Each public decision will be judged on how it affects bio-diversity. The onus won't be on ecological decisions to prove their merit, but on non-ecological projects to prove they can't be done any other way. Non-ecological decisions must be taken as a last resort. It's a total revolution in the way we govern our country."
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A new transport strategy, to be announced by the government tomorrow (Tuesday), will see a huge increase in emissions of greenhouse gases because the government will still not stand up to the aviation industry, according to Greenpeace. The document is expected to fail to rule out new runways and airports but support bringing aviation into the European Emissions Trading Scheme by 2012 and call for increased use of existing runways.
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Environmental Audit Committee suggests appointment of Minister for Climate Change
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