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I Count ends but the work goes on...

I-Count logoAt the end of 2006 Greenpeace joined other environmental and campaigning groups to push for government action on climate change - under the name of the I Count campaign. At the time, the reality of global warming was only just being accepted by mainstream politicians, but through Stop Climate Chaos' I Count campaign thousands of us lobbied our MPs and helped to persuade many of them that the situation was serious and that genuine action was needed. Last month the positive results of all that effort were seen when a much beefed-up Climate Bill was passed by Parliament.

All of us who took part in I Count can be proud of our contribution to three major victories in the climate change debate, which have now been incorporated into the Bill.

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Shipping and aviation will count in emission targets, electric cars get new funding

Planes at Heathrow

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband has agreed to include emissions from aviation and shipping in the new Climate Change Bill, which is due to become law next month. Having already taken the important step of upping Britain's commitment to curb its carbon footprint from 60 per cent to 80 per cent by 2050 during his first week in office, he's now accepted an ammendment to the bill proposed by rebel Labour MPs to include the carbon footprint of the aviation and shipping industries.

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Canvass your MP about cutting emissions

Canvass your MP

A brand new campaign has been launched in which you can Canvass your MP to bring in tougher targets on cutting CO2 emissions. This website was created within a week thanks to climate campaigners working round the clock to make it available to you to take action. The climate change bill proposed by the government promises emissions cuts of just 60 per cent. However, a much higher figure of at least 80 per cent is required for realistically tackling climate change.

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This Bill's Got No Balls

That's the eye watering message from our friends over at I Count. They're talking of course about the Climate Change Bill - and are asking you to put the virtual squeeze on your MP, to make sure the bill gets the balls it needs to stop climate change:

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Ministers that "get it" and those that don't

It's easy to talk about the government as if it were a single, all-powerful, bureaucratic machine, with tentacles stretching out from Downing Street into every aspect of our daily lives. Of course, it simply isn't like that.

Governments are a collection of individuals: from the 22 who sit round the Cabinet table, through the hundred or so ministers in various government departments, their political special advisers and civil servants. Throw in the external pressures of the media, business, and organisations like Greenpeace, and you see that far from being a single machine, it is a complicated alliance of individuals who come together to form the body politic. And as the Environment Minister Hilary Benn said today, it's important that they all "get it" on climate change.

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Making noise about the climate change bill

Icount logoIt’s been a while since we’ve mentioned I Count, the Stop Climate Chaos campaign. But, since the campaign launched last year, the folks there have been busily working to inspire people to take much-needed action on climate change, with everything from I Count in the Square to the I Count clothes swap.

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Queen's speech - Greenpeace reaction

15 Nov 2006

Chimney at Drax


Commenting on the government's announcement of a climate change bill, Greenpeace climate campaigner Charlie Kronick said:

"Public concern has forced ministers to move into a higher gear on climate change, but we still have no idea just how they intend to meet these new targets while they continue to back airport expansion, wasteful energy generation techniques and the dead end of nuclear power. We hope this bill will spark real change, with annual targets for carbon cuts, because CO2 emissions are going up under Labour and business-as-usual simply isn't working."

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