Manchester
Climate Fortnightly
Email Bulletin #16
Date: August 31,
2009
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Dear all,
another email bulletin from Manchester Climate Fortnightly. Next full newsletter will be out Sunday 6th September, with the usual mix of upcoming events, council news, “Coping with Copenhagen” We will be looking closely at where the Climate Change Action Plan being developed by the Council and its partners is up to.
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
The first meeting, on Sept 16, from 7.15pm is on the theme of “Manchester's Ecosystems” (political, economic, ecological etc)
Call to Real Action will develop, publish and publicise an alternative action plan. The next meeting of the group is at the Friends meeting House on Wednesday September 9th
A new monthly newsletter, the “CRAB” (Call to Real Action Bulletin), will keep you informed of what's going on.
The next public C2RA meeting is on Weds 9th September from 7pm at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St
Climate Camp in London has decided that the target of its “Climate Swoop” on October 17/18 will be Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station near Nottingham.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8230014.stm
Upcoming events
Weds 2 September ,7.30pm Showing of "The Age of Stupid" at the Yard Theatre, Hulme. £2.50 suggested donation
Monday 8th September 6.30pm - Vestas Support Network campaign meeting at Friends Meeting House
Saturday 12th September Communities of Change event at MMU's Didsbury Campus
Coping with Copenhagen
Expectations are being massaged downwards, both by British politicians like John Prescotthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/23/copenhagen-carbon-emissions
and American policy wonks like Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations (very prestigious outfit, kind of like 'Chatham House' in the UK)
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009/08/climate-cop-out-copenhagen
Read all about it
Costs of adapting to climate change significantly under-estimated
LONDON – 27 August 2009. Scientists led by a former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will warn today that the UN negotiations aimed at tackling climate change are based on substantial underestimates of what it will cost to adapt to its impacts.
http://www.iied.org/climate-change/key-issues/economics-and-equity-adaptation/costs-adapting-climate-change-significantly-under-estimated
The
Climate Camp is too self-regarding to be effective
Peter Beaumont in the Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/30/peter-beaumont-climate-camp-protesters
For climate camp's own take on its politics, see here-
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/blog/category/politics