Monday 14th March, London

AN OPEN INVITATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISTS, PEOPLE FROM ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS, SOCIAL JUSTICE & COMMUNITY GROUPS AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT CLIMATE ACTION IN THE RUN-UP TO THE G8 SUMMIT.

As the International Energy and Environment Ministers' Roundtable meets in London (March 15th-16th), the establishment's climate change agenda is dominated by hot air - and completely undermined by an absence of action. Currently Tony Blair's government, and by extension the G8, are capturing both the media attention and the moral high ground on this issue, further marginalising those calling for just and real solutions to climate change.

Rising Tide Activists Occupy Export Credits Guarantee Department Offices to Protest Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline; Attempt at Participatory Democracy Fails

When: to coincide with the European Social Forum and related grassroots events in London, 14-17 October 2004

Oil fuels the engine of economic growth. When that oil is burnt, it becomes the CO2 that is screwing up the weather as well as the lives of the world's (poorest) people. We live in a system that values profit above all else, and this insane outlook is undermining the long-term stability of our planet.

More traffic growth? More roads? Airport Expansion? You must be CHOKING! It's time to take ACTION!

Labout are backsliding on the victories of the 1990's roads protests, and many road schemes, dropped in the 1990s, are back on the road builders' agenda. Meanwhile the Government is also proposing large-scale airport expansion... and all in the same breath as talking about tackling climate change.

This backslide CAN and WILL be stopped by PEOPLE POWER.

We need to ORGANISE NOW!

The government is backtracking on the victories of the 1990s anti-road building campaigns... it wants to build more roads, expand existing roads, and also build new runways and terminals at airports across the UK. At the same time, Labour claims to be serious about tackling climate change.

Below is a review of some of the road building which may follow from the Multi- Modal Studies/ Road-Based Studies, prepared by Denise Carlo at Transport 2000.

For more information on road building plans, see www.roadalert.org.uk

For more information on airports, see www.airportpledge.org.uk

Climate change: Hot air, fake science and genetically modified trees

International Inaction (Critiques of the COP international climate negotiations, 2001-2003)

Critical Analysis of the 'COP 9' UN Climate Negotiations, By Chris Lang

Published in WRM Bulletin 80, March 2003 www.wrm.org.uy

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been in force since 21 March 1994. For a decade, international climate change negotiators have filled meeting rooms with hot air. Meanwhile, greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 11 per cent, according to World Resources Institute.

The Seventh Conference of Parties intergovernmental climate conference in Marrakech continued in the well established pattern of further weakening the feeble Kyoto Protocol and increasing its vast loopholes. The event was marked by protests around the world.

Report back
A report on Marrakech- what happened, what didn>t happen, what it means for climate change
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BP Annual General Meeting
TAKE ACTION with London Rising Tide...

Thursday 15 April 2004, 'Oil Festival Hall', London, 10am-3pm

Nearest Tubes: Waterloo or Embankment

Timetable for the day here...

Oil on the Warpath
challenging the oil empire

Saturday 27 March 2004 10am-6pm
Friends Meeting House, James St, Sheffield

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