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Where are our leaders letting us down?

Posted by graham - 6 November 2009 at 3:49pm - Comments

Earlier this week more than 20 Greenpeace volunteers climbed the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to tell governments meeting here ahead of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen to "save the climate".

Yesterday Ed Miliband added his voice to the chorus coming from many EU and US officials saying that he's concluded that there won’t be a legally binding agreement at Copenhagen next month. By his measure a proper deal faces a delay of at least six months, and probably more.

From this it would seem that warm words and a warming world are now all we can look forward to from the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. Over the past few weeks our political leaders have scrambled to lower expectations. This statement marks a new low. A year ago Copenhagen was going to be it, our best opportunity to avoid unprecedented climatic disaster. Now, we are being told it will be talks about more talks.

Article tagged as: climate change, COP, copenhagen, gordon brown, kyoto protocol, obama, world leaders

Learning on the job

Posted by graham - 10 March 2009 at 10:26am - Comments

Graham answers the phones.

Graham takes another press enquiry in what certainly isn't a staged photo.

I'm a press officer, but I've only been doing the job for a week, so any super-confident account of what it's like standing athwart the 21st century 24/7 information super-thingumajig would be pure bluff and bluster. Which is what press officers do, I suppose, but like I said, I've only been doing it for a week.

However, I have been working for Greenpeace  for almost a decade now, so I must have picked up something (in addition to a criminal record).

The various jobs I've had here include GM campaigner, toxics campaigner and ‘Peace Consultant' - how cool is that? Only lasted for a few weeks back in 2004, but I think it brightens up my CV considerably.

Article tagged as: blog relay, climate change, perpetual motion machines, press

Thoughts from the climate march, on the Global Day of Climate Action

Posted by graham - 10 December 2007 at 8:10pm - Comments

I am bathed in the warm glow of the righteous, for not only did I march with them, but I marched in the rain. Once you've made the decision, a little bit of meteorological adversity boosts everyone's sense of camaraderie. Apart, that is, from my fair-weather 'friend' Richard, who buggered off to the pub about ten minutes in, and is therefore the worst sort of part-timer and highly deserving of public contempt and derision. I try to do my bit.

So, apart from Richard the faithless, we were all there to send a message to Bali, where our glorious leaders are trying to save us all from climate Armageddon without imperilling the ability of large companies to make more money. Fortunately, climate change was recently reclassified from environmental disaster to business opportunity. Phew.

Article tagged as: bali, business, climate change, disaster capitalism, naomi klein, politics, protests, wind power

Amongst the 'terrorists' at climate camp

Posted by graham - 16 August 2007 at 12:20pm - Comments

Climate camp on until Monday

A banner flies over the camp, alongside a plane © Kristian Buus

I got the train from Paddington to Hays and Harlington Station on Wednesday, and then the 140 bus to the corner of Harlington High Street and Sipson Lane. A nice fellow I met on the bus showed me some of the alternative entrances I could use if the main entrance is blocked, and then we strolled down Sipson Lane to the main entrance.

I’d been super-cautious, and left my wallet and anything else I didn’t want to be seized as evidence at home. I wasn’t planning to do anything which would require evidence to be seized, but what with our heightened state of something-or-other, I thought it was best not to take any chances. I was gutted when no-one searched me.

Article tagged as: aviation, BAA, climate camp, heathrow

Scaremongering

Posted by graham - 3 October 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Part of the Climate Clinic blog

Article tagged as: climate change, climate clinic, hadley centre

Leading the debate

Posted by graham - 3 October 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Part of the Climate Clinic blog

Article tagged as: climate change, climate clinic, conservatives, david cameron, politics

Gummer update

Posted by graham - 2 October 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Part of the Climate Clinic blog

Graham at the Climate Clinic

BAA spin doctors (seated) look shifty when probed about how more runways mean less aviation emissions ...

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, climate clinic, conservatives