Campaign against Climate Change, London
Minutes of Meeting – 12th January 2006
1. International Report
- Phil and Jonathan N and Nathalie went to the ESF in Vienna. Good vibes.
The date for November 11th widely agreed but France closes down on this day.
- Nick Lee currently meeting and making contacts in Nairobi.
- Phil, Tony Staunton, CCC from Newcastle going to the WSF in Caracas, Jan05
- Nick Hutton going to the WSF in Bamako, Mali at the same time.
- WSF in Karachi now delayed until March
- Next ESF planning meeting in Frankfurt, will include CCC networking, 5 March.
- Note: next ESF will be on the beach in Athens, 4-7 May.
- Need volunteers for international subgroup – please contact Phil first
2. Report on Meeting with Stop Climate Chaos (SCC)
- Phil met with Ashok of SCC. SCC aim to build effort towards UN climate talks in November. Excellent meeting. Good linkage forming between SCC and CCC, with complementary messages. Carbon Dating lobby of MPs is on 1st March (see email).
- Planning meeting on 24th January. Jonathan Neale and Duncan to represent CCC.
3. National Meeting, Saturday Feb 11th
- Agreed need a national structure with agreed national/London split, balance between different groups in CCC, and representation from working groups.
- Objective to report back, elect a national organisation and decide what it does, campaign focus etc. First gathering of CCC not to protest. Voted small group to prepare agenda, structure (Phil, Jonathan N, Jonathan E, John S, Rosie, Richard).
- Others, such as Hilary and John Ackers may want to join.
- Duncan and Nathalie volunteered to help with logistics.
4. Actions and Campaigns
- Phil noted good to have different action at US embassy such as music, a new angle
- Proposed countrywide StopEsso campaign. Suggested to rebrand with a new angle as StopEsso largely unsuccessful. Suggested local actions could link to local councils.
- Fundraiser/social
- Support Stop Climate Chaos and their proposed events (see above)
- Support Big Ask. Lots of support for this idea.
- Rapid reactions. Suggested include stunt on energy (anti-nuclear) debate soon.
- Other suggestions included Borneo forest speaker for our AGM meeting, positive campaign for local groups (e.g. carbon rationing in Midlands), not to do too much apart from the international march in November.
5. Organisation
- Need office and fundraising volunteers. Rosie to draw at volunteer job descriptions/adverts and liase with Phil. Need to decide terms (e.g. lunch and bus pass allowance) so agree a budget through the finance sub-group.
- Clare D volunteered for editing/content for press, French, Portuguese translation.
Next meeting – 23rd February, 7pm, 1B Waterlow Road, Archway, London.
Additional points covered
Also under 1.
- Phil said he was minded to have a similar call to action to last year, but for this to be decided at a meeting of D3 action groups he intended be convened in Europe in spring.
Also under 4.
- I suggested also a more wide-ranging Bush boycott, and a "Stop palm oil in biofuels" campaign, but that there is never an opportunity to vote on what are CCC's priority actions.
- I suggested moving toward messages of "stop hypocrisy, stop appeasement, true leadership wanted", and that the COP/MOP had largely become appeasement. Phil answered that we needed an international treaty and that required the COP/MOP.
Minutes of London meeting
You obviously covered a lot. Im glad you met Stop Climate Chaos who need to do more. I do however have a problem with people flying to meetings. I would hope that CCC would encourage people not to fly given that it is the fastest growing source of emissions. It would be encouraging if CCC was different to all the other environmental organisations.
far away meetings and reporting back
So do I. Especially when nobody seems to be bothered to write any kind of report or email about what they actually achieved. E.g. ESF delegates.
Agree
Was thinking of going to ESF but put off by flight emissions. See http://chooseclimate.org/flying/
Nick's travel
Nick at least decided to journey totally overland to Mali because of his ethical stance on emissions. Good for him!