The WAVE...Will you be there?

London WAVE

The WAVE http://www.the-wave.org.uk/ , the biggest ever UK climate rally,  will provide an opportunity to show people’s view before the Copenhagen Summit.

11am – Ecumenical Service at Central Hall, Westminster, lead by Archbishop Rowan Williams.

3pm – encircle Parliament Square

Wear blue!

MY VIEW: Copenhagen, say ‘those in the know’, must be seen as a step and not a conclusion. The conference  but, however,  in my opinion be a key stepping stone towards changing the way we live and work and play. Without each and every one of us doing our bit and goverments setting decisive targets – and then reaching them – we will not only NOT achieve the outcome of living sustainably. We will instead continue down the slippery slope towards damaging our chances of looking after our very home,  Planet Earth!   

The WAVE … Will you be there?

Supporting Articles:

The 300-350 Show: Civil Society for Climate Justice

 

Just before the start of the historic UN climate talks open in Copenhagen, UK civil society will come together and encircle the Houses of Parliament. They will demand that the UK and Europe do much, much more than they have pledged so far as part of a fair and effective climate agreement in Copenhagen. We speak to the director of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, Ashok Sinha, about The Wave and other events they have planned for December 5th, and about their policy platform. The SCC brings together over 100 organisations who have a combined membership of around 11 million people – one in six of the UK population.

Their demands include:

• Reduce atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations to around 350 ppmv CO2(e)
• Global emissions peak and decline by 2015
• UK & EU reduce emissions by 40% by 2020 with the vast majority of these reductions (preferably all of them) achieved within the UK & EU i.e. without offsets
• Protecting forests be additional to, not instead of, these cuts
• Industrialised countries transfer at least $160 billion annually to developing countries to fund adaptation and low-carbon development
• UK bring in an emissions performance standard for new electricity plants that is strict enough to rule out coal power stations unless they have 100% Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) fitted from the outset
• Test CCS on existing power plants only
• The UK invest in a transition to a low carbon economy thus creating hundreds of thousands of green jobs
• The UK support the renewable energy sector and investing in energy efficiency and demand reduction, in order to meet our EU renewable energy target for 2020 and decarbonise our energy sector by 2030
• Ensure a just transition for the workforce

We end the programme with a reflection from Climate Justice hunger striker, Anna Keenan, on the state of the Climate Justice movement as Copenhagen approaches. Listen to this programme now at: www.climateradio.org

Copenhagen: the people’s summit

There is another gathering taking place in Copenhagen, running in parallel with the main conference, and that is the coming together of environmental activists from all over the world, who are flocking to Denmark to cheer the conference on, as it were, and also to give it a few sharp prods – to remind the presidents and the prime ministers doing the deciding that the situation is serious and needs an adequate response.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/countdown-to-copenhagen-the-peoples-summit-1831098.html

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