Posted by jossc — 28 May 2009 at 11:50am
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If saving our climate was a game of poker and all the various
stakeholders - our heads of state, the energy industry,
environmentalists, etc - were players, there would be one player at the
table who hasn't yet shown their cards. The hold-out in this particular
game is the Information Technology (IT) Industry, a player who is
sitting on a lot of chips in a high stakes game, despite holding a
winning hand.
Posted by jossc — 13 March 2009 at 11:10am
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Greenpeace climbers making their point at the Jozwin II B site last December
Great news just in from Poland, where work on the giant Jóźwin IIB open-cast pit and coal mine near Konin has been suspended. Following a legal challenge submitted last December by Greenpeace, a Polish court has ruled that there were problems with the environmental assessment process undertaken before work began on the site. Construction has now been halted while the process is reviewed.
Posted by jossc — 22 December 2008 at 10:23am
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The tension built as the judges deliberated. Then at last the results were were all in and - ta-da! It was time to announce the winner of the first annual Greenpeace 'Emerald Paintbrush' award for greenwashing above and beyond the call of duty. Cue a quick roll on the drums, and step forward into the spotlight - BP!
The energy corporation with an income larger than most of the world's nation states has spent a lot of time and money restyling itself as being 'Beyond Petroleum' in recent years, but a trawl through their accounts quickly reveals just how empty that assertion really is - 'Back to Petroleum', more like it.
Posted by jossc — 10 December 2008 at 3:34pm
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Clean coal technology like this is at work right now in a coal-fired power station near you
Energy companies putting in bids to run new coal-fired power stations have been quick to seize upon carbon capture and storage (CCS) as the ideal solution to their biggest problem - explaining why they're so keen to return to using the dirtiest fossil-fuel possible at a time when we need to cut CO2 emissions dramatically to reign-in climate change.
Posted by jossc — 8 December 2008 at 1:13pm
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'Please DO something' - Plane Stupid send a message to the government
My favourite climate protesters Plane Stupid struck again this morning when they shut down Stansted, London's third airport.
Taking advantage of a temporary maintenance closure in the small hours of the morning, they set up
a camp on the runway. Wearing high visibility vests with the message, "Please DO something", and raising a banner which read 'Climate Emergency', they barricaded themselves with fortified security fencing. The blockade led to 56 Ryanair short-haul flights being cancelled, and the eventual arrest of over fifty young climate activists. Oh, and prevented the release of thousands of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere in the process - the average flight out of Stansted has a climate impact equivalent to 41.58 tonnes of CO2.
Posted by jossc — 4 December 2008 at 12:15pm
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The Turner Report - a nail in the coffin of coal-fired power?
Lord Turner's Committee on Climate Change, which reported to the government on Monday, has gone a long way towards ruling out new coal plants like Kingsnorth from playing a role in any future UK energy mix.
Posted by jossc — 1 December 2008 at 1:31pm
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Do you feel the media sometimes misses the point? Wish it was getting the urgency of climate change?
As you may know, Greenpeace is a member of Stop Climate Chaos (SCC), the umbrella group of organisations working together to limit the worst effects of climate change. If, like us, you think the media could use some 'recharging' on the climate debate, join in to create a big debate in the media this December. Get the letters pages, opinion columns and airwaves buzzing with your views on climate change and the UK's energy choices.
Get your voice heard. Inspire others. Help shape the public agenda.
Posted by jossc — 1 December 2008 at 11:54am
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EU leaders - 20 years of broken promises...
On 11 December at Poznan in Poland, our governments will decide Europe's response to climate change for the next 12 years. Unless they agree to at least 30 per cent cuts in European greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, we'll have no chance of keeping global warming below 2°C and avoiding climate catastrophe.
So far there is still an utter lack of any kind of visionary leadership in these talks. There are still governments that repeatedly fail to grasp the urgency of the crisis. That's why we need to make ourselves heard, because the impacts of climate change are racing ahead of the scientific projections.
Posted by jossc — 28 November 2008 at 3:31pm
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If we're to avert catastrophic climate change the world must quit coal. But the industry and the powerful forces which rely on it won't go down without a fight. Yesterday, in Warsaw, Greenpeace provided them with two reminders of why we all need to quit coal.
Posted by jossc — 26 November 2008 at 3:02pm
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Boy are BAA keen on a third runway for Heathrow. Their enthusiasm knows no bounds, and there appear
to be no lengths they won't go to to get their own way - purely for the good of the country, of course
(even though they are Spanish owned) - no shabby profit motives involved.
So far in order to see their dream come true they have:
colluded with the government (through a joint body - the Heathrow Delivery Group)
to steer their plans through the consultation process
supplied their own data for calculations of noise and pollution that inform the proposal, and prevented opposition groups gaining access it it to carry out their own analyses
written parts of the consultation themselves
drawn up a 'risk' list with the Department of Transport to counter opponents of the
proposal (including the 2M campaign, the group comprising local councils representing 2 million people who'll be affected by the new runway)
taken out an injunction against Airportwatch, the umbrella organisation who's
members include such radical groups as the National Trust, the RSPB, the Woodland Trust and
the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, as well as ourselves.