The UK needs to commit to 40% emissions reductions (based on 1990 levels) to avoid global temperature rises exceeding the danger level of 2°C.
Use Friends of the Earth’s action to write to Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, to demand the UK commits to 40% reductions and puts up more money to help those people who will be hit first & worst by the effects of climate change.
COP15 ended so badly, Christian Aid want you to write to Gordon Brown asking him to get the negotiations up and running again.
After the disappointing result from COP15, we have to keep the pressure on world leaders. Use this Oxfam action to write to Gordon Brown and demand a real deal.
The Royal Society has recently issued a 2 page statement, Preventing dangerous Climate Change, that can be downloaded from the Royal Society website.
The Revd John Marsh, moderator of the general assembly of the United Reformed Church, has expressed his great dismay at the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change summit. Read more
The Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches have condemned the world’s richest countries for failing to reach a binding agreement at the Copenhagen climate change summit. Read press release
Read the full text here.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed a US-backed climate deal in Copenhagen as an “essential beginning”. Read rest of BBC report
Organised in partnership with Redcliffe College, CMS and the Agricultural Christian Fellowship: 9.30am – 4.30pm, Saturday 6 March 2010 More details
The issue of climate finance is a Copenhagen deal breaker for developing countries, and much has been made by Gordon Brown and yesterday, Hillary Clinton, on the need for climate finance. Both have put forward figures to help developing countries cope with the impact of climate change. But the World Development Movement’s analysis shows that the facts behind the figures add ‘insult to injury’ for developing countries. Of the $100 billion ‘announced’ yesterday by Hillary Clinton, half or more would be financed by carbon trading and developing countries. Read more
