Tell Gordon to toughen up the climate bill now
Gordon Brown needs to make UK companies declare their carbon emissions in the Climate Change Bill. Millions of the world’s poorest are suffering because of climate change. The government claims Britain's carbon emissions are 2% of global total but international activities of UK companies are taken into account, the contribution soars to 12-15%.
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The Prime Minister could make a real difference with his Climate Change Bill by making it mandatory for British businesses to report their full global carbon emissions.
Please make sure he does just that by sending an email to your MP. Go to Promises and click on the link and Christain Aid will send a copy to Gordon Brown.
Thank God it’s them
For all the terrifying forecasts, we cannot yet be certain about what the full impacts of climate change will be.
And though we are all vulnerable, people in rich countries can be grateful that it is the world’s poor who stand on the frontline.
It is they who will find out first – if they haven’t already – what global warming could mean for our collective future.
They are like canaries in the coalmine, and it is grossly, monumentally unfair.
‘The world’s poorest people are like canaries in the coalmine’
It is a big, fat, calamitous injustice, because poor people in Niger, Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi and Bangladesh have done little to contribute to the global warming that is threatening to push millions to the edge of an abyss.
The war of attrition they’re waging with unpredictable weather; the crop failures, the cattle deaths, the hunger; the intensified fighting over dwindling water supplies; the haemorrhaging of young people from the countryside to the cities in pursuit of non-existent alternatives.
All of these are down to our profligate burning of fossil fuels.
Take action now by writing to Gordon Brown under Promises.
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Labour’s carbon claims too low
From The Sunday TimesMarch 16, 2008Jonathan Leake, Environment EditorBRITAIN’S greenhouse gas emissions are 12% higher than claimed by Labour, according to an investigation by the National Audit Office (NAO). The report could undermine Gordon Brown’s claims to be creating a low-carbon economy.The NAO analysis, published this weekend, says Labour&r...
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Labour’s carbon claims too low
From The Sunday Times March 16, 2008 Jonathan Leake, Environment EditorTell Gordon to toughen up the climate bill now's Blog
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