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March on Parliament to demand that the government acts on climate now !
The march this year goes to Parliament Square to demand that the government act now on climate. The march will now start at Grosvenor Square (5 mins from Speakers Corner, Hyde Park - Bond Street or Marble Arch tube. Apologies for any confusion over starting point see more here) - assemble 12 noon. Full schedule here
Speakers will include Nick Clegg (leader Liberal Democrat Party), Caroline Lucas (leader, Green party), Michael Meacher (ex-Environment Minister) and George Monbiot (Honorary President, Campaign against Climate Change).
Musical interlude Seize the Day
The march will be preceeded by a climate protest bike ride starting from Lincoln's Inn Fields at 10.30 am: see more here.
There will be a Climate Change Service at Hinde Street church at 11.30 am - worshippers will join the march afterwards. See more here.
There will be an After-Party in the Synergy Centre from 5.00 pm till late.
For info about coaches or other transport from around the country to the march click here.
For a "Coach organiser's guide" see here.
To download leaflet for the National March click here
The March on Parliament has four main themes -
1) NO to a 3rd runway at Heathrow and the runaway expansion in aviation expansion.
2) NO new coal - no new coal-fired power stations as planned at eg Kingsnorth in Kent
3) NO to the expansion of agrofuels - with negative impacts on forests, the climate and world food supply.
4) YES to a renewable energy revolution and green jobs - a "Green new Deal"
Come with your own banners, costumes etc on one of these themes (if you fancy !) and join up with others pushing that theme......
The March on Parliament for the Climate marks the Saturday midway through the UN Climate Talks in Poznan, Poland and we make our demands on the UK government in solidarity with the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities that will suffer worst and most immediately from climate change caused overwhelmingly by the rich long-industrialised countries.
We need the government to act now on climate, to stop building coal-fired power stations and new runways - and to begin the renewable energy revolution. We need a tidal wave of people outside parliament to make them act to stop climate catastrophe now ! Be part of that tidal wave, be there ! Next year may be too late.
Why so critical now ? See here.
Is the Government failing us on climate change ?
Public Meeting on Thursday 6th November
7.00 pm at the Friends House, 173 Euston Road (opposite Euston Station), London.
Speakers include:
Zac Goldsmith Editor of the Ecologist magazine.
Bob Crow General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT)
Benedict Southworth Executive Director of the World Development Movement.
Phil Thornhill National Coordinator, Campaign against Climate Change
No New Coal March
Rochester to Kingsnorth
Sunday 3rd August
Protestors spilling out of the end of Rochester high street.
Hundreds gathered in Rochester for a rally in the high street followed by a 7 mile march to Kingsnorth power station, to demand NO NEW COAL - and no new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth. This was a great showpiece event to help launch the Camp for Climate Action and generally emphasise the critical importance of the decision over Kingsnorth and the need to stop and reverse the expansion of coal-burning for power around the world. The march was joined by the Climate Camp "caravan" which had spent the previous week making its way from Heathrow, the site of last year's climate camp.
Speakers at the Rochester Rally included Ashok Sinha, Executive Director of Stop Climate Chaos, Caroline Lucas MEP (Green Party), Sean Furey, Deputy Director of the Kent Branch, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Benedict Southworth Executive Director of the World Development Movement, James Lloyd of People and Planet, Penny Eastwood from the Camp for Climate Action, Maureen Ruparel Lib Dem Medway councillor, Steve Wilkins from Medway Trades Council, James Willis from Kingsnorth Climate Action Medway and Phil Thornhill from the Campaign against Climate Change.
London International Climate Forum
June 14th-15th 2008, at the South Camden Community School, NW1
The Climate Forum hit a high with a positive effervescence of multi-faceted perspectives on the climate crisis. "Positivity" and "Negativity" battled it out on Saturday's major plenary with contributions from Michael Meacher MP, Caroline Lucas MEP, Tony Juniper (Director, Friends of the Earth), Isabel Fremaux from the Climate Camp and the Campaign's own Phil Thornhill . The Sunday 'International Plenary', meanwhile, exposed the audience to some perhaps less familiar perspectives from around the world - with Bangladesh, Nigeria, Belgium, Taiwan, Spain, Senegal and the Phillipines all represented on the panel. Workshops ( 50 + !) as ever covered a multiplicity of themes but some very constructive, no-nonsense, discussion was had on major campaigning themes like Heathrow/Aviation and Kingsorth/New Coal. In particular John Macdonnel MP was able to offer a detailed and up to date analysyis of where the Heathrow campaign now stood - to those who made it to the early Sunday morning seminar ! Read more here.
For more details of the forum, workshop program etc See here
Protest against Brown on Biofuels
STOP THE RTFO 
On Tuesday April 15th the "Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation" came into force - which mandates a mixing of 2.5% of biofuel in all diesel and petrol, and will massively increase the demand for biofuel. This is a measure supposed to help fight climate change but will have the reverse effect, driving deforestation and therefore climate change as well as deepening the world food supply crisis. See more here. The CCC joined forces with Biofuelwatch to protest against the RTFO and the devestating impacts caused by a massive increase in biofuels, outside Downing Street, at 6.00 pm on April 15th.
This was the largest demonstration yet against biofuels and was widely reported on the day. Speakers at the demo included Ronnie Hall of the Global Forest Coalition, Kenneth Richter of Friends of the Earth, Pete Riley, campaign director of GM Freeze, Andrew Boswell of Biofuelwatch and Phil Thornhill of Campaign against Climate Change. Earlier in the day at 1.oo pm there was a very succesful photo-call and mini-demo outside the Department of Transport.
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"FOSSIL FOOL'S DAY", April 1st saw CCC campaigners at a demonstration against Kingsnorth and a new wave of coal-fired power stations ( see more here ) in Parliament Square before moving on to conduct a demonstration outside the London offices of Argent Group PLC who are behind the UK's biggest opencast coal mine at Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales - see more here. |
The Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Conference on
Saturday 9th February, at the University of London Union, was a great success with more than 300 attending. See more about the program, speakers etc here. Get your Union to join the campaign - see more here.
SATURDAY 8th DECEMBER
NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH
GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION
Despite torrential rain, and
the worst weather you could wish for, the National Climate march was a great sucess - with up to 10,000 people turning up to show that they felt passionately enough about the issue not to be put off by the horrendous conditions.
The march assembled at Millbank in a downpour strong enough to put off the keenest (and which surely must have reduced numbers considerably - perhaps by up to 50%). Nevertheless a formidable if soggy throng set off past the Houses of Parliament with placards demanding an effective Climate Bill ..... ( read on here ).
* Thanks to the thousands of climate change protesters who braved the weather in London - and thanks to all those around the world for being a part of this global event *
To see the BBC online coverage, click here.
To see photos of the National Climate March in London, click here.
To see photos of the 2007 Global Day of Action, click here.
New: To see videos of all the London speeches in full, click here.
What we were demonstrating for: read on here
BALI and the GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION
Predictably the Bali Climate talks were all about the degree to which the US was able to sabotage real progress towards an effective international emissions reductions agreement. We are involved in a race against time to get a replacement treaty in place before the Kyoto treaty runs out ... read on here
"How can we win the race against climate catastrophe?"
Thursday November 8th, saw the Friends Meeting House packed out for a tremendous Public meeting
Speakers were George Monbiot, author and journalist,
John Sauven,
Director of Greenpeace UK, Sophie from the
Camp for Climate Action and Phil Thornhill, National Coordinator, Campaign against Climate Change.
>>> For video-recording of George Monbiot's speech click here.
"Die-in" at the gates of ExxonMobil UK headquarters, near Leatherhead Surrey, on Good Friday April 6th 2007, the day of the release of the "Climate Impacts" section of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, which outlined the devastating effects unchecked climate change will have on the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.
We brought our anger at Exxon's cynical campaign of disinformation on climate change right up to the gates of their UK HQ for 24 hours, from 5.00pm Thursday 5th to 5.00 pm Good Friday April 6th. Read more here.
For the
The Campaign against Climate Change is pioneering a
Global Climate Campaign
Climate Protestors in Osasca, Brazil. See more pics of the Global Day of Action here
See more here.
Vote on the urgency of the climate issue at www.caretovote.co.uk