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Action Against Agrofuels disrupts the European Biofuels Expo 08

Submitted by john_sinha on 21 October, 2008 - 15:38

On Thursday 16th October, activists from Action Against Agrofuel disrupted the European Biofuels Expo and Confere,nce 2008, the largest agro fuels expo in Europe. A group of activists disguised as delegates entered the expo hall, climbed the wall and dropped banners on the main entrance, The aim of the protest was to highlight the link between agrofuels expansion and deforestation and world hunger. As well as making exacerbating climate change through rainforest destruction, population displacement and associated human right abuses.

Contraction & Convergence: Summary

Submitted by davidb_tonderai on 9 June, 2006 - 06:29

Please add any material relating to C&C.

* The fair choice for climate change - an excellent summary and advocacy of C&C by Aubrey Meyer.

surface transport - summary

Submitted by davidb_tonderai on 5 June, 2006 - 22:17

Campaigns

* Road Block - alliance against road building * Slower Speeds - for a sustainable transport system (especially sustainable speed limits) * Sustrans - the sustainable transport charity (especially low carbon transport) * Transport 2000

Carbon Footprinting: links

Submitted by davidb_tonderai on 8 March, 2006 - 17:45

* Resurgence Carbon calculator - based on electricity/gas bills but it includes less common energy sources like wood, propane and butane.
* National Energy Foundation carbon calulator: covers almost everything, with a useful list of conversion factors.
* Carbonlife calculator - very general, based on lifestyle.
* Fuel conversion factors from Defra (last updated June 2005).

Aviation: summary

Submitted by davidb_tonderai on 8 March, 2006 - 17:39
Please add links to any articles relating to aviation. * Monbiot: We are all killers.

Campaigns

* Airportwatch - the airport expansion protest coalition. * Plane Stupid (!) - direct action on aviation. * Aviation Environment Federation - sole UK organisation dedicated to Aviation and the Environment

Govt. policy

* Government aviation white paper

Emissions: links

Submitted by davidb_tonderai on 3 March, 2006 - 23:06
* Global CO2 emissions from CDIAC * Global, Regional, and National Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions from Online Trends by CDIAC: emissions broken down by region and country (to 2002).

Parliament

Submitted by davidb_tonderai on 10 February, 2006 - 23:11
What's going on in Parliament. Sites: ePolitix (keep track of legislation), Public Whip (track voting records), the EDM List, and the UK Parliament (debates and publications). The Environmental Audit Committee accepts written and oral evidence from witnesses that really do know how little the government is doing.

Climate Science

Submitted by davidb_tonderai on 1 February, 2006 - 22:43

General

* IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) * Climate change on Wikipedia (especially good figures e.g. Climate Change attribution) * Global Climate Change Student Guide from ARIC (pdf) * Royal Society - A guide to facts and fictions about climate change. Prepared by a group led by Sir David Wallace FRS, Treasurer of the Royal Society, and Sir John Houghton FRS, former chair of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and endorsed by the Council of the Royal Society. It addresses the popular skeptics' arguments and the value of the Kyoto Protocol as a first step.

Resources

Submitted by davidb_tonderai on 14 November, 2005 - 23:52

Please post in the sections below. Any questions or comments to David, or send material to david AT tonderai.co.uk.

Campaigning: original campaigning material (artwork, leaflets, letters etc.); Teaching: original teaching materials (presentations, classroom resources etc.); Sources: links to background reading & references that can inform the campaign (reports, articles etc.); Parliament: lobbying material (bills, edms and MPs).

Campaign Against Climate Change on Youtube

Submitted by CCC_Office on 21 November, 2008 - 09:16

Dear all,

The Campaign Against Climate Change now has its own Youtube Channel:

http://uk.youtube.com/campaigncc
(there is a link on the home page of the website).

At the moment you can see the videos of the speeches from the last public meeting on 6th November 2006. There are also links to speeches of last year demonstration and various videos on climate change.

Please circulate the links.

Thanks.