Posted by bex — 30 April 2007 at 4:36pm
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In 1974, the BBC launched Ceefax, Richard Nixon was kicked out of office and the last new coal-fired power station was built in the UK. Most things have moved on a fair bit since then – but apparently not for the UK's energy companies.
Posted by bex — 6 February 2007 at 3:59pm
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The world's top climate scientists have this morning released their latest report on the science of global warming. Their verdict: the world is on the verge of climate catastrophe.
The climatologists who make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have just confirmed that the science of climate change is more certain than ever - including the devastating impacts that are a consequence of a warming world. The need to act urgently and effectively has never been more acute. Yet despite fine words about the problem, the UK government's response is to usher in a new generation of climate damaging coal fired power stations, and attempt to spin their failure on climate change as a success.
Today Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the general election. Some party leaders have already hit the campaign trail, but the most important race we now face is tackling climate change.
President Bush today said the solution to climate change lies in 'the power of human ingenuity.'
He claimed 'emerging technologies such as hydrogen powered vehicles, electricity from renewable energy sources and clean coal technology will encourage economic growth that is environmentally responsible.'
In response Greenpeace Executive Director Stephen Tindale said:
Global warming is caused by burning fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas). It is the biggest environmental problem we face today, and the effects - extreme weather, drought and disease - are already being felt.
To counter the effects of global warming, the burning of fossil fuels must be reduced and phased out over the next 30-40 years.
Posted by bex — 2 September 2002 at 8:00am
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Choose Positive Energy petition hand in
Greenpeace and The Body Shop presented 1,602,489 signatures to the Earth Summit in the form of an interactive mural calling upon delegates to agree to get clean, reliable, renewable energy into the hands of 2 billion of the world's poorest people by 2010.
Greenpeace and The Body Shop teamed up about a year ago to create the Choose Positive Energy Campaign, launched in January of this year. The demand: that governments vastly expand renewable energy for people across the world - the industrialised governments should expand their renewable energy supplies and all governments should commit to providing small-scale renewable solutions like solar and wind power, small-scale hydro, and biomass, to the world's poorest.
