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The Rising Tide UK Climate Action News Sheet with news, future events and ideas for taking action on Climate Change is a short (two pages max) email sent out only when there is something useful to say and never more than once a week. To sign up, click here... RISING TIDE UK CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 39 14 April 2004 CONTENTS
A note for newcomers - These news sheets are short (2 ish pages) and we won't "flood" you (ho ho) - we will issue them only when we have something to say and even then no more than one update per week (and maybe even less often). YOUR DETAILS WILL NEVER BE GIVEN TO ANYONE. 1. ACTION - BP Annual General Meeting 15.04.04, 10am-3pm ...that's
TOMORROW, sorry
for the silly short notice! 12 months have passed since the last BP AGM, and what have we seen? BP, Shell and all the other oil majors have profited handsomely from a destructive, deceit-ridden war; BP's Baku-Ceyhan pipeline is under construction and has become an embarrassment that proves the company's green and socially responsible rhetoric to be nothing but top dollar public relations; and BP boss Lord Browne's salary soared to the just under £5m mark, just as his company's North Sea and other oil workers saw their personal safety, union rights and wages increasingly in tatters. Join London Rising Tide at the BP AGM tomorrow and help expose this hypocrisy. Further Information: www.risingtide.org.uk Nearest Tubes: Waterloo or Embankment 2. ACTION - Join FOE 'Whale Funeral' to protest EBRD-funded oil & gas expansion Friday 16.04.04, 9-10am Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street Campaigners from Friends of the Earth will stage a mock funeral procession with a large skeleton of a grey whale outside the head office of London's European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Friday to protest the threat posed to the Western Pacific grey whale by plans to expand the oil and gas extraction in the region. The EBRD is being asked to fund the project which, as well as contributing to climate chaos, threatens to devastate local communities and livelihoods by destroying important fisheries in the area. Join FOE at the EBRD on Friday if you can make it. Further Information: FOE Press Office, 020 7566 1649 EBRD Info: http://bankwatch.org/issues/ebrdpip/ 3. ACTION - Lobby World Bank to accept Extractive Industries Review recommendations The World Bank's own advisers have reported that extractive industry (oil, mining and gas) projects often worsen rather than relieve poverty. The Extractive Industries Review makes a series of recommendations on how the Bank can lessen the impact of its projects. But a leaked Bank report reveals that the Bank is planning to reject many of the recommendations. Please write to your MP - ask them to contact the UK Government's Department for International Development and ask that the EIR recommendations should be adopted in full. DfID is currently recommending that the EIR should be rejected. Letter text and further info: www.baku.org.uk 4. NEWS - Weather Warning: Climate Chaos to hit South-East Hardest Climate change will affect the South-East worse than anywhere else in the UK, warns a sobering new report launched by the region's Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas at the site of the devastating Lewes floods. Global Warming, Local Warning, a study of the likely impacts of climate change on South East England, warns freak and extreme weather conditions could cost the region's economy millions - and see 630 square kilometers of South-East England lost to rising sea levels - unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed. Full Report: www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk/publications/pdfs_and_word/SE_Climate_change.pdf A secret internal Pentagon report warns of possible rioting and nuclear war caused by Climate Chaos, that Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years, and that climate change poses a greater threat to the world than terrorism. Following closely on from Sir David King's claim that climate change is a bigger threat than terrorism comes the first known internal Pentagon report into the impacts of abrupt climate change on US security. Don't look to this report for a sophisticated analysis (one of the authors used to write future scenarios for Stephen Spielberg.) Among the proposals are that the US defends its resources against desperate environmental migrants and considers engineering the climate with CFCs. The full report: www.ems.org/climate/pentagon_climate_change.html 6. COMING EVENT - Debt, Climate & Global Justice Dublin, Wednesday 28.04.04, 9am-5.30pm Feasta and the Debt and Development Coalition Ireland are organising a conference in association with the New Economics Foundation, Jubilee Research, the Global Commons Institute, Friends of the Irish Environment and GRIAN (the Irish arm of the Climate Action Network.) Highlights include:
Further Information: www.gci.org.uk/events/feasta.pdf 7. COMING EVENT - Climate Justice Tour April / May 2004, Australia FOE Australia are organising a Climate Justice Tour starting at the end of April, visit various cities and towns in Eastern Australia. It hopes to show how people are going to be affected by climate change; specifically peoples of the Pacific Islands given the severity of impacts predicted for this region, and the comparatively minor greenhouse gas emissions from these communities. The tour aims to bring the experience of living with climate change into the public debate on climate change in Australia, as well as highlighting the impacts of the oil industry of communities in the global South. Further Information: www.foe.org.au/nc/nc_climate_tour1.htm 8. INFORMATION - New Initiative to Investigate Holistic Climate Impacts Two academics at the Southampton University
have founded a new initiative, the Forum for the Study of Crisis
in the 21st Century, to For more information contact Mark Levene: ml1@soton.ac.uk Please send anything you’d like put up
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