Manchester Climate Fortnightly

Manchester Climate Fortnightly
Email Bulletin #15
Date: August 19, 2009

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Dear all,

another email bulletin from Manchester Climate Fortnightly. Next full newsletter will be out Sunday 23rd August, with the usual mix of upcoming events, council news, “Coping with Copenhagen” etc.

In this email bulletin-
Campaign News
Upcoming Events
Coping with Copenhagen
Read All About it

Best wishes
Marc Hudson, co-editor of Manchester Climate Fortnightly


Campaign news
Manchester Climate Forum will be having regular info=-sharing/networking meetings on the third wednesdays of September to January (with a Xmas party in December). The venue will be the Friends Meeting House, and the dates are Sept 16, October 21, November 18, December 16 and January 20
Call to Real Action will develop, publish and publicise an alternative action plan. The next meeting of the group is on Wednesday September 9th.
Friends of the Earth, alongside its many various campaigns, is having a summer picnic this Sunday in Heaton Park (see calendar for details)


Upcoming events
Monday17th August - 7:15for 7:30pm start,

Stockport Friends of the Earth Arden Arms, Millgate, Stockport There will be a talk about the Bollington Carbon Revolution and an update on the Manchester Airport campaign covering the current Noise Consultation.


Tuesday 18th 7.30am 
Demonstrate at Vestas Birchwood HQ
"As Vestas makes multi-million profits - it throws hundreds on the dole!"
Vestas Workers' NW Solidarity Campaign
302 Bridgewater Place, Birchwood Park, Warrington, WA3 6XG 

Tues 18th August 6.30pm 
Manchester Climate Action Jabez Clegg on Dover Street (just off Oxford Road)There will be a minibus going from Manchester down to the Climate Camp for the 'swoop' (http://climatecamp.org.uk/node/609 ) on Wednesday 26th August. The minibus will be returning at the end of the camp on Wednesday 2nd September. If you are interested in booking a place on this minibus please email
manchester@climatecamp.org.uk
Tues 18, 6pm to 8.45 
CIBSE consultation on 25% reduction from housing emissions scheme. Vine Inn, 42 Kennedy Street, M2 4BQ

Wednesday 19th August - Stockport Transition Towns meeting
7:15 for 7:30pm start, Arden Arms, Millgate, Stockport

Saturday 22 August, 11am – 3pm at Manchester Town Hall
Put your views on the future of the city to the people who run it
Manchester Young Labour are hosting this policy forum to give young people in Manchester the chance to put their questions, thoughts and ideas to the leaders of the council. Grill the people who run the City about the issues that matter to you and then help to develop new ideas that will be put forward to be included in the manifesto.
This is your chance to have your say about the things that matter to you – public transport, crime, education, the environment, art and culture, sport – and turn your ideas into future policy.
All young people are welcome.
For further information, or to book a place, visit: http://tiny.cc/yourideas, or contact Kev, on 07772 608 058, or email: kev.peel@yahoo.co.uk http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145703318832


Sunday 23rd August 
FOE social/picnic Heaton Park.
This will be across the whole Greater Manchester network so is a fantastic opportunity to get to know other people in other groups as well as Manchester!
 It will start at midday and go on till around 3pm. The theme of the event will be blue-to tie in with Stop Climate Chaos wave of action! So wear blue clothes, bring blue food..
.(that doesn't have lots of chemicals in...???) bring blue drink-you get the idea! For more info about where to meet on the day, give me a shout on 07962 185 044.

Tues 25,7.30pm 
Showing of "The Age of Stupid" at the Yard Theatre, Hulme. £2.50 suggested donation
Weds 26th August 6:30pm - 8:00/8:30pm Informal Green Drinks Gathering 
Lime Bar, Booth St, Manchester, M2 4AT


Coping with Copenhagen 

The Bonn talks of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended with little progress.

BONN, Germany, August 14, 2009 (ENS) - Negotiations toward a new agreement to limit
global warming ended today in Bonn with little progress, United Nations officials and conservationists said. "At this rate, we will not make it," said the UN's top climate change official, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Climate Change Secretariat. Attended by some 2,400 participants, the informal talks aimed at achieving an ambitious and effective deal at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. 
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2009/2009-08-14-01.asp 
And also
http://www.iisd.ca/download/pdf/enb12427e.pdf

Guardian “is it time to start worrying about Copenhagen”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/12/network-copenhagen

And if you want optimism, try “The Other Game in Town”
http://www.unausa.org/grassroots/blog


Read all about it
Crisis and climate force supply shift
Financial Times August 10 
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9b64cd82-8545-11de-9a64-00144feabdc0.html