Blogposts tagged 'Rspb'

Live blog: The Future of European Fisheries event at ZSL

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 13 July 2011 at 6:04pm - 0 Comments

Join us at 6pm today for a live blog from the Event - featuring Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and MP Richard Benyon

Live updates from the cross NGO event on the release of the EU's proposal for CFP reform.

Article tagged as: CFP, Client Earth, European Fisheries, Event, marine conservation society, NEF, Ocean 2012, oceans, Reform, RSPB, WWF, ZSL

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Joint statement on coal and carbon capture and storage

Publication date: 22 August, 2008

The science of climate change is unequivocal – to avoid catastrophic impacts, industrialised countries like the UK must make steep and urgent reductions in their carbon dioxide emissions. This means that it is unacceptable to build new unabated coal-fired power stations in the UK.

This joint statement from Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and the RSPB calls on the government to:

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The joint statement (pdf)

Article tagged as: CCS, climate change, coal, friends of the earth, reports, RSPB, WWF

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Kingsnorth: now RSPB are demanding action

Posted by jossc - 14 March 2008 at 6:39pm - 0 Comments

The anti-coal storm gathering around the head of Business Secretary John Hutton, the government minister championing new coal-fired power stations, is growing daily. Latest to weigh-in on the side of reason are the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). As you can see from the following quote, they are less than impressed with Hutton's stance;

If the UK government must use coal, the dirtiest fuel source there is, then it must also wait until CCS facilities are up and running. There is no rationale for using coal again until its climate damage can be contained.

Article tagged as: climate change, co2, coal, kingsnorth, RSPB