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Action for the Climate Emergency, 2010

The Copenhagen Climate talks ended in a failure even worse than many had feared - even  if great steps were taken to build the global campaign for action and justice on climate (see here).

We need powerful national campaigns to force governments to act. Here in the UK our best chance to  influence the international community is by conspicuously bold action here at home - action that matches up to the scale of the Climate Emergency we face. The Campaign against Climate Change is demanding emergency action on climate that includes:

10% CUT IN EMISSIONS BY THE END OF 2010 - or within one year.

A MILLION CLIMATE JOBS - by the end of 2010 - or within one year -  through a GREEN ENERGY REVOLUTION  with massive investment in renewable energy, insulation programs, improved public transport etc... See more here.

BANNING DOMESTIC FLIGHTS - building a better train/coach network

55 MILE AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT - ending the roads program, massive investment in public transport

END AGROFUEL USE - and eliminate the demand for products associated with rainforest destruction. See more here.

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION PROGRAM - massive campaign to inform the public of the scale of the climate threat - booklet in every home, regular TV info, etc..

There is now a Climate Emergency 'EARLY DAY MOTION' - proposed by Colin Challen MP., that includes most of these demands. Help build the momentum for urgent action on climate ...and get more MPs to sign EDM 189 (originally tabled as EDM 2057 )... see more here. 

On Saturday 20th February the CCC is holding a meeting to plan "What next after Copenhagen?", how to build a campaign for emergency climate action in the UK including the campaign for a million climate jobs and how best to use the Climate Emergency EDM. See more here.

Copenhagen Climate March, 12th December

12 Dec 2009, 12:00 am

GLOBAL DAY OF  ACTION CLIMATE MARCH IN COPENHAGEN, 12th DECEMBER

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The Campaign against Climate Change was out 'on tour' wth our hallmark 'globe-in-a-greenhouse' and assorted flags and banners at the magnificent climate march in Copenhagen on 12th December, the Global Day of Action on climate on the Saturday midway through the climate talks.

The CCC co-organised the 'Euro-train'  that took 800 activists from Belgium, France and the UK to Copenhagen for the weekend of the 12th-13th. This was in collaboration with 'Climate et Justice Sociale'  from Belgium and 'Amis de la Terre'  from France. 133 activists from the UK went on the train, while CCC also organised a coach that took another 50 activists.

The Global Day of Action march in Copenhagen was a great success, with maybe around 100,000 taking part including sizeable contingents from many European countries and a broad diversity of people from all over the world. CCC enthusiasts joined the Friends of Earth 'Flood for Climate Justice' outside the venue of the 'Klima Forum' at 10.00 am and proceeded with the 'greenhouse'  to Christiansborg which rapidly filled up with demonstrators to hear speeches before the march left around 2.00 pm for the 6km march to the Bella centre (where the conference was being held), where there were more speeches and entertainment into the early evening.

Everyone was agreed it was a fantastic day - not to be missed - and a milestone in the building of  a global campaign against climate change.

See our photo gallery from the day here. We've also greated a Flickr group for others to share their photos from the march.

Climate Emergency Rally

05 Dec 2009, 12:00 am
Where: 
Speakers Corner, Hyde Park

Crowd at Speakers Corner

Thousands came togther for the Climate Emergency Rally at the start of  the UK's biggest day of climate protest, yet, on 5th December, the Saturday before the opening of the Copenhagen Climate Talks.  They came to demand immediate and radical action on climate from the UK government.

The rally's key demands were:

  • Declaration of a Climate Emergency
  • 10% cuts by end 2010
  • A million green jobs by end 2010
  • Ban domestic flights
  • 55 mph speed limit – scrap the roads program
  • End Agrofuel use

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Climate Emergency: "Where next after Copenhagen?" planning meeting

20 Feb 2010, 12:00 pm
Where: 
Room G2, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG

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PLANNING MEETING

Saturday 20th February 2010 at SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG. Map here.
Starts at 12:00pm

All welcome to come and discuss:
 
Where next after Copenhagen?
 
Building a campaign for emergency climate action in the UK
 
Post-election action/demonstration to challenge the new government to take emergency action on climate
 
How can we best use the Climate Emergency EDM?
(Early Day Motion 189 – previously 2057 signed by 45 MPs – which calls for 10% cuts by end 2010, a million green jobs by end 2010, banning domestic flights, 55 mph speed limit, 2hrs climate info TV per week etc……see more at http://www.campaigncc.org/climateemergencycopenhagen )
 
Plus Campaign against Climate Change AGM
 
Download a flier from our Leaflets page and help spread the word!
 

Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union conference 2010

13 Mar 2010, 11:00 am
Where: 
South Camden Community School, London NW1

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The date for the third CCC trade union conference has been announced as Saturday 13th March, at the South Camden Community School, Charrington St, London NW1 1RG. Speakers will include Tony Kearns (CWU), Manuel Cortes (TSSA), Chris Baugh (PCS), Prof. Barbara Harriss-White, Jonathan Neale (Million Green Jobs Commission, CCC), John Stewart (HACAN), Graham Petersen (UCU), and Larry Lohman (Cornerhouse).

The Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union conferences have brought together hundreds of Trade Unionists to discuss the role that the Trade Union movement can play in the fight against Climate Change. Our previous conferences have been a great success, but our third occurs against a backdrop that is even more urgent. Working people face the twin threat of economic recession and climate disaster. The failure to agree a serious strategy for dealing with climate change at the Copenhagen Climate Conference underlines this problem.

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London Public Forum

07 Nov 2009, 12:00 pm
Where: 
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, NW1 1RG (Kings Cross tube)

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London Public Forum

Saturday 7th November

12.00 noon – 6.00 pm,
at South Camden Community School, Charrington St.

The event saw a great afternoon of speeches by a range of diverse and passionate speakers.

The four round table plenaries were:

  • 10% cuts by end 2010: the case for emergency action
  • Green Jobs Now – a million climate jobs by end 2010?
  • Decarbonising our transport fast – the way ahead
  • Copenhagen, the deal we need and the deal we’re likely to get

Plus there were assorted workshops including ones from Biofuelwatch/Food not Fuel and the CCC trade union group.

For a full programme of events click here.

The speakers 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), Daniel Scharf (Greenspeed), Chris Baugh (Public and Commercial Services Union), Dr Stuart Parkinson (Scientists for Global Responsibility).

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Big ‘5’ for “350”

24 Oct 2009, 2:00 pm
Where: 
Jubilee Gardens (next to the London Eye), South Bank, London

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The Big “5” for “350”

Aerial Photograph at the London Eye 2pm, Saturday 24th October

The "Big 5" photograph went fantastically well, over 600 people gathered on London's South Bank to form the shape of a 5, to be put next to a 3 that was taken in Sydney, Australia and a 0 that was taken in Copenhagen, Denmark on the same day. The event was part of the 350 global day of action which saw over 4,000 events in over 180 countries all highlighting the number 350 - the safe level of CO2 in the atmoshphere in parts per million that we need to achieve to avoid catastrophic climate change (the current level 390 ppm).

The event was part of the nef's Bigger Picture festival that was taking place in The Bargehouse nearby.

Clicking the image above gets you to the full size version, but be warned, it's nearly 7 megabytes!

Here is a great time-lapse YouTube video of the event.

 

while Leap Anywhere did a video of the day with interviews.

You can see all the other events from the 350 day of action on their website. The 350 day of action, founded by author Bill McKibben, is the major international action leading up to the UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen, these actions peak with the Global Day of Action on Climate Change midway through the talks on December 12th – see here.

Great Climate Swoop

17 Oct 2009, 1:00 pm
18 Oct 2009, 2:00 pm
Where: 
Ratcliffe-on Soar Power station

The Great Climate Swoop, 17th-18th October

ImageThe climate swoop was a well-attended event, with approximately 1,000 people present on Saturday, many of which stayed the night in the woods.

Our bloc, called Footsteps to the Future was loud and lively (helped no end by the bike sound system) and we marched from East Midlands Parkway station to the gate of the station where we stayed for a bit, snacking and listening to speeches.

Then the march resumed, down the road (with the humongous coal pile on our left) onto the bridge where we could peacefully observe the fence which other blocs were trying desperately to pull down! There we stayed for a while, eating flapjacks, playing a giant version of paper-rock-scissors and dancing to the sound system (rather appreciated by a police officer who joined in from the pavement!) until it started getting dark and cold, at which point most people went back to the station to get transport home.

A camp complete with warming fire was set up in the woods nearby, where the majority of those that stayed slept for the night. Sunday was less eventful than Saturday, with a few people launching a half-baked and unsuccessful attempt at getting a fence down before everyone got escorted back to the station where minibuses and trains took demonstrators back home.

We've uploaded some photos here.

Agrofuels don't ROC(k) !

12 Oct 2009, 6:30 pm
Where: 
Department of Energy and Climate Change, 3 Whitehall Place

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  Maryla Hart speaking for 'Food not Fuel'

Demonstration against renewable energy subsidies for Agrofuels

 Monday 12th October, 6.30 pm
At DECC (Dept of Energy and Climate Change), 3 Whitehall Place, London

Photo-op at 12.30 – 1.30 pm

Called by Campaign against Climate Change, Biofuelwatch and Food not Fuel

This was a lively demonstration with a great atmosphere! Good speeches from  Kenneth Richter from Friends of the Earth, Rupert Read from the Green Party, Maryla Hart from ‘Food not Fuel’, Phil Thornhill from the ‘Campaign against Climate Change’, Amancay Colque from Coordinadora Latinoamericana. and also John Stewart from HACAN who chipped in with a few words about agrofuels as the 'long game' of the aviation industry. Also great music from, Pete, Mark et al!

Half way through there was a great moment when the Latin American contingent arrived on the last stop of their long day of actions in solidarity with indigenous people on this 'Day of Protecting Mother Earth'.

Photos from the evening are here. Earlier in the day there was a photo-op at the same place, the photos from the shoot are here. Videos are on a playlist on our YouTube channel.

So what was the demo about ? Well........

The government is using renewable energy subsidies (Renewable Obligations Certificates – or ROCs) to fund power stations that use agrofuels. 

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Vestas National Day of Action

17 Sep 2009,
Where: 
Around the UK
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