Is it really a year since David
Cameron, newly ensconced as prime minister, assured us that the coalition would
be the "greenest
government ever"? It's an anniversary worth remembering, if only to
consider how, in environmental terms, Cameron's government seems stuck in
reverse.
Posted by jossc — 1 September 2009 at 1:30pm
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Since the Big If pledge launched in March, when Age of Stupid actor Pete Postletwaite promised the UK Energy and Climate Change minister Ed Miliband that he would return his OBE if the government gave the go-ahead for a new coal power station Kingsnorth, thousands of people have joined him in making pledges of their own.
Greenpeace UK has been a core member of the Big If coalition from the start, together with a wide range of other organisations including the RSPB, World Development Movement, Oxfam and the Women's Institute. Because if Kingsnorth and the other 10 plants planned to follow it get built, then we'll have next to no chance of meeting our CO2 reduction targets and reining in runaway climate change.
Sometimes, you are a bit dumbfounded by stories that make the news. Seriously, you couldn't make some of it up, could you? I couldn't let this one pass (so to speak) without comment.
Today's belter is the new study suggesting that feeding fish to cows will help climate change. Yes, you read that right. The theory is something like this – cows, which we farm for milk, meat and leather, produce methane. Most of this is by burping, not flatulence as the comics would prefer. Methane is a bad, nasty, evil greenhouse gas. And we want to cut those down, don't we?
Posted by jossc — 20 June 2008 at 12:10pm
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Taking the message to the Philippines Department of Energy
Mareike, web editor aboard the Rainbow Warrior, give us an update on from the Philippines about how the 'Quit Coal' tour is progressing.
Burning coal accounts globally for over 70 per cent of CO2 pollution from power
generation and is the greatest single threat to our climate.
That's why the Rainbow Warrior is on a global tour from New Zealand, via the Philippines and Thailand, to the UN climate panel meeting in Poland at the end of this year,
promoting a massive uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency and the
phase out of coal.
Posted by jossc — 27 May 2008 at 1:37pm
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The Rainbow Warrior's protest at the Pagbilao coal-fired power plant in the Philippines has ended on a high note. Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri sent a message of support to the crew saying, "I will file a resolution in the Senate seeking a halt in the construction of new coal fired power plants in the country."
The action ended on the eve of the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting in
Japan, where the richest industrialised countries in the world gathered at the weekend to discuss solutions to climate change. Ending
the use of coal needs to top the agenda.
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.
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:
Posted by jossc — 28 March 2008 at 12:15pm
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This week the Rainbow Warrior marked the start of a six
week 'Target Climate Change' tour of New Zealand with an action against the Hellenic Sea, a 60,000 tonne bulk carrier owned by coal exporter Solid Energy. While it trades on NZ's clean green credentials the government is
making millions of dollars from Solid Energy peddling coal on the world
market - quite literally stoking the fires of climate change.
