A murder of CROWS is out in Salem woods along Hebden Water – mallets, saws and azads in hand, and mud squelching underfoot (just how they like it).
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Category Archives: Environment news
Hebden Bridge writer Rachel Tansey exposes corporate capture of COP19 climate talks
Former Calder High student Rachel Tansey is at the COP 19 climate talks in Warsaw. Thanks to her COP19 Guide to corporate lobbying, published by the Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute, it’s clear that the Polish government hosting COP19 is criminally complicit with a large number of fossil fuel companies that it has invited to sponsor and attend the climate talks – giving them free rein to bend and capture the agenda to serve their own interests.
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UN Climate talks in Poland open with tears and fasting
By Climate News Network editor Paul Brown in Warsaw
One topic dominated the opening the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP 19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Philippines delegation said,
“We cannot manage this abomination on our own.”
In an emotional opening to the new round of climate talks in Poland, Yeb Sano, the chief of the Philippines delegation, with tears rolling down his cheeks, said he would not eat before the end of the two weeks of negotiations until a substantial deal had been done to help countries deal with the effects of climate change.
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Upcoming UN Climate Change talks in Poland will be greenwash
At the upcoming UN climate talks, the Conference of Parties (COP) 19 in Poland, the EU aims to expand carbon markets that would benefit big polluters, says a Statement signed by 135+ groups, movements and networks from all over the world. The Statement denounces the corporate capture of COP19 by the same companies that stand to profit.
Tamara Gilbertson from Carbon Trade Watch said,
“The European Commission and the carbon crooks who turn profits from the failing EU ETS are pushing for a lifeline through linking up markets, foreshadowing a global carbon market.”
The statement explains that COP19 partners include Polish energy group PGE, whose Belchatow coal-fired plant was the biggest polluter and the biggest recipient of free allowances in 2012.
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Coca Cola’s “Plant Bottle” is greenwash – and that’s official
The Danish Consumer Ombudsman ruled earlier this year that Coca Cola’s marketing of its “Plant Bottle” is greenwashing. The ruling was based on the Danish and European Marketing Practices Act, which requires factual evidence to back up claims about environmental friendliness.
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We can limit global warming to 2℃ – here’s how
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just issued its 5th Assessment Report. This represents the international scientific consensus on the state of climate change, its human causes, and what we need to do to keep global warming within the hopefully safe limit of 2℃ above the pre-industrial level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – before we starting running our economies on fossil fuels.
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“Growing Change” – A Remarkable Good News Film
Myra James, a member of Incredible Edible Mytholm’s management committee, reviews Simon Cunich’s film Growing Change: a journey inside Venezuela’s food revolution. Venezuela is one of only a handful of countries that have made food sovereignty a national policy.
The screening in the Unitarian Church, Todmorden on Sunday 1st September 2013 was jointly hosted by Incredible Edible Todmorden (IET) and the recently re-launched Calderdale branch of the World Development Movement (WDM).
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EU meeting to regulate food speculation
This World Development Movement (WDM) video explains how food price speculation is increasing and has thrown millions into poverty, and that government regulation is essential to stop this. They are proposing “position limits” – limits that cap the proportion of commodity markets that speculators can hold.
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UK needs twice as much forest – and 40k new forestry jobs
16 year olds who’ve just had their GCSE results and are wondering what to do next might be interested in following up the idea that the UK could see the creation of up to 40K new jobs in forestry and in primary wood processing (work in timber haulage, sawmills, pulp mills and wood based panel mills).
This prediction is made in the recently-published report, Zero Carbon Britain – Rethinking the Future (ZCB RTF), from the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.
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Arctic permafrost thaws releasing less carbon dioxide than expected
Tim Radford, writing for Climate News Network, reports that scientists are mulling Arctic’s slow CO2 loss.
The Arctic permafrost thaws each year, but – to the surprise of scientists from Denmark – in some areas it is not releasing the carbon dioxide it contains nearly as fast as they had expected.
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