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Energy Independence

2008-10-14T10:50:03Z

Energy Independence
To get the recent $700 billion bailout passed, some "sweeteners" were
added to the package by the Senate to attract votes from certain
constituencies. Among them were $18 billion in tax breaks for
businesses.
While Congress steadfastly declines to increase taxes on an oil
industry making record profits — taxes which could be used to develop

[Climate Change Action] Climate Rush = Awesome

2008-10-14T10:38:39Z

Yesterday it was 100 years to the day after the suffragettes rushed
parliament and demanded universal suffrage. Yesterday a woman dominated
group of protesters gathered to hear women speakers from the Green
Party and the Women's Institute among others, before attempting to rush
parliament.There where several novel aspects to this event. It wasn't

[Climate Change Action] CLIMATE RUSH: PARLIAMENT 5;30 MONDAY 13TH

2008-10-13T09:55:14Z

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[Climate Change Action] Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis'

2008-10-10T08:54:36Z

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According to a new report comissioned for the European Union the global
biodiversity crisis is costing vastly more than the current credit
crisis.Via the BBC:
The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of
forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an

New MRG Climate Change Campaign

2008-10-09T15:53:14Z

Hi All,
I know this might qualify as spam (!), but below is a letter asking people
to sign up to a campaign I am working on. It desperately needs lots of
signatures to even be heard at the UN climate change summits at Poznan and
Copenhagen. We are all trying our best and my bit includes spamming my
friends!

[Climate Change Action] London City Airport Expansion Gets Go Ahead

2008-10-09T14:02:11Z

Yesterday i trekked across London to Newham town hall in East Ham. We
held a rather disorganised flash mob all wearing red STOP AIRPORT
EXPANSION t-shirts. After this and a brief photo-opp we headed
inside.Overall democracy works in a very interesting way. It starts off
by getting a free ticket to the event, walking past perhaps 15 police

[Climate Change Action] ENVI documents european climate policy.

2008-10-09T11:51:14Z

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Some major decisions have come out of Europe on Tuesday 6th. Decisions
which none the less have to pass national govornments before comming
law. These decisions where taken by Committee on the Environment,
Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) and all of the documents that they

[Climate Change Action] EU Propose Old Coal Ban, sets long term climate targe...

2008-10-09T09:45:17Z

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Major news from the EU. A coal emissions limit equal to that in
California has been proposed from 2015. Coal power plants will have to
release less than 500g co2 per KWh. This is thought by many to mean
only coal with carbon capture and storage will be permitted. As many

[Climate Change Action] ABC air adds by Chevron but wont air adds by RePower ...

2008-10-08T22:04:20Z

Amazingly, ABC is quite happy to promote fossil fuel energy but not
renewables! I just recieved this from the "We" campaign...Dear
Calvin,Did you notice the ads after last night's presidential
debate?ABC had Chevron. CBS had Exxon. CNN had the coal lobby. But you
know what happened last week? ABC refused to run our Repower America ad

[Climate Change Action] The Climate Change Committee Website

2008-10-08T13:34:09Z

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The Climate Change Committee setup to advise te govornment on the
Climate Bill now has a website, this site will be fully up and running
by te 1st of december.

[Climate Change Action] Letter from The Climate Change Committee to Ed Milliband

2008-10-07T15:04:09Z

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Lord Turner of the Climate Change Committee has just written to Ed
Milliband of the newly formed Department for Energy and Climate Change.
This letter--reccomending 80% cuts in emissions by 2050 along with
inclusion of international aviation and shipping--has made waves in the

[Climate Change Action] Climate Change Committee: Include Aviation and Shippi...

2008-10-07T13:50:06Z

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As part of the climate change bill the government set up and advisory
committee, which Gordon Brown tasked with finding a suitable target.
Well, they have, and the target is 80% reduction by 2050 including
aviation and shipping.That sort of demand is 10 a penny from the likes

[Climate Change Action] Is CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) a useful technology?

2008-10-07T10:49:28Z

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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a technology that when developed
would allow the climate changing emissions from large fossil fuel power
plants to be prevented from entering the atmosphere and instead pumped

[Climate Change Action] New Energy And Climate Change Department for UK

2008-10-03T11:29:40Z

According to the bbc:"It is confirmed - cabinet office minister Ed
Miliband will be secretary of state at the new energy and climate
change department. "This could be interesting, fingers crossed.

Climate change and rights of indegenious communities

2008-10-03T11:23:21Z

Hi All,

Given the expertise of this group, I was wondering if anyone has been
working on how climate change hits the indigenous communities the
hardest. I read this article a month back about the UN negotiations
that are due to be held in Jan 09 and how not even a single
representative from these minority communities has been included in