Vince Cable's department has broken a key coalition deal on the environment for a second time, say campaigners. UK Export Finance - also known as the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) - has announced it is backing up to $1billion of loans to Brazilian oil company Petrobras, which specialises in deep and ultra-deep water drilling.
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The UN climate change negotiations are taking place in Durban, South Africa from 28th November to 9th December. Stop Climate Chaos Scotland will be represented at the talks by Lang Banks from WWF Scotland and Lexi Barnett from SCIAF. Each day, they will blog on the SCCS web page, bringing you the latest news from Durban as it happens.
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Delegates from 200 countries will meet in South Africa from November 28 to try to reach agreement on global emissions cuts and funding for developing countries to adapt to climate change. The Scottish government has been lobbyed to do the right thing by funding its own policies to reduce climate change emissions. Help to put pressure on Scottish climate change minister Stewart Stevenson to use his influence in South Africa to ensure that funding for developing countries to adapt to climate change is given to them as grants not loans. Lending to countries that are already heavily in debt will only drive them further into poverty. Please email Stewart Stevenson now.
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Campaigners calling for justice for countries already suffering the impact of climate change will next month embark on a journey by caravan across 10 African countries to draw attention to the issue. Departing from Burundi, the Caravan of Hope will transport up to 200 African farmers, pastoralists and youth campaigners to Durban in South Africa where the UN climate talks are being held.
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The Scottish Government has published their draft budget, but it does not currently fund even the minimum activities required if we’re to meet the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets in our Climate Change Act. Please contact your MSP
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Bangladesh and India: Floods and landslides displace 200,000 people in north-east India and 150,000 in south-east Bangladesh. China: Natural disasters forced 2.96 million people to evacuate their homes and caused the collapse of 274,000 buildings in the People's Republic of China over the first six months of 2011. In 2010 over 42 million people were displaced by natural disasters
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Community leaders in countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, Mozambique and Yemen have written to British cabinet ministers Chris Huhne and Andrew Mitchell rejecting the loans the UK is providing to their countries to help them cope with climate change.
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Scottish parliament urged to implement marine protected areas
Green MSP Alison Johnstone has urged the Scottish Parliament to back calls from Scottish Environment LINK for a strong network of Marine Protected Areas using the powers set out in the Marine Act passed at Holyrood in 2010. The call came on the third annual UN-recognised World Oceans Day, which this year recognises the particular contribution young people make to protecting our seas.
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A Honduran palm oil company is looking for funds from the carbon markets even though they have been implicated in 16-25 assassinations of peasants in 2010 alone. During the first three months of this year, they have been linked again to violent attacks and kidnapping. Unless the British Government stops the sale of those carbon credits, which they can do, the company will further increase their profits and thus be able to pay even more armed paramilitaries and to continue oppressing the peasant communities that are reclaiming lands which are legally theirs
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Looking for an interesting way to talk to your future politicians. Then visit a SCCS Climate Café. This an informal and engaging way to ask your parliamentary candidates how they plan to tackle climate change issues if they are elected in the Scottish elections this May. Climate cafés are based on the concept of “speed dating”. With a small group of people, you’ll get ten or fifteen minutes to ask your candidate questions before a bell rings and you move to another table and another candidate. Tea and coffee will be provided and you’ll receive an information pack beforehand explaining the key issues and how the event will work. This event is organised by the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. For more information and to book a place, visit www.stopclimatechaos.org/scottish-elections
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Consensus is growing that we must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Proponents of nuclear energy say nuclear is the best alternative. But nuclear energy is neither clean nor green. Each step in the nuclear chain poses hazards to the environment and human health.
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Tarnished Earth is a dramatic street gallery of photographs by Jiri Rezac telling the story of one of the world's biggest ecological disasters.
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