CLIMATE EMERGENCY COPENHAGEN

LONDON PUBLIC FORUM

When: Saturday 7th November 12-6pm Where: South Camden Community School, Charrington St (nearest tube Kings Cross) see map

 

Open to everyone and free to attend, hosted by the Campaign against Climate Change the Public Forum will bring together leading figures to discuss and debate the Climate Emergency and what we can be doing to tackle it. This event sees a great variety of speakers including Aubrey Meyer (Global Commons Institute), Oliver Tickell (author Kyoto 2), John Stewart (HACAN), Johann Hari (journalist), Jean Lambert MEP (Green Party),  Damian Carrington (Head of Environment, the Guardian), Alexis Rowell (Camden Council), Chris Baugh (Public and Commercial Services Union), Tony Juniper (ex Director, Friends of the Earth, Green Party) and Dr Stuart Parkinson (Scientists for Global Responsibility) as well as workshops with Biofuelwatch and the Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group. 

The Forum features the Climate Emergency ‘Call to Action’ which will focus on taking a radical message to the UK’s biggest day of Climate Protest so far on December 5th.  The Climate Emergency Rally, on the 5th will give voice to a growing movement for immediate emergency action by the UK government  - along the lines laid out in EDM 2057, for which support is growing. Help us make sure that a radical message is heard on the 5th – and build the movement for emergency action in the UK! 

 There is now an 'Early Day Motion' (EDM 2057) put forward by Colin Challen MP that incorporates most of these demands. An Early day Motion is a statement made by MPs ( they are sometiimes the first stage in the genesis of an actual Bill) that other MPs can show their support for. The Climate Emergency EDM reads as follows :

That this House recognises that there is a climate emergency and that the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate represents the greatest threat that humanity faces; further recognises that the world is already above the safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration for a stable planet; further recognises the need to reduce this level to 350 particles per million or below; believes it is impossible to predict how close the world is to dangerous tipping points and that action to reduce emissions now is worth considerably more than doing the same later; further believes that immediate action is required to enact a program of emergency measures with substantial emissions reductions in the short term of the order of 10 per cent. by the end of 2010; further believes that the majority of money spent on reviving the economy should be on green measures and that at least two hours of prime time television per week should be used to explain the gravity of the crisis to the public; further believes that unabated coal and domestic flights should be phased out by the end of 2010, that a speed limit of 55 miles per hour should be introduced and investment made in energy efficiency and renewable energy, public transport and the retro-fitting of efficient insulation to existing housing stock technologies leading to the creation of a million green jobs by the end of 2010; and further believes that the introduction of such measures would send a positive signal to other countries leading up to the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen and beyond.

 

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