Blogposts tagged 'Targets'

Volkswagen's Dark Side: Stormtroopers invade the UK's Silicon Roundabout

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 28 June 2011 at 3:09pm - 3 Comments

What a day: hijacking London's largest ad space, stormtroopers in Old Street trending on Twitter, blanket coverage in the PR press, called "masters of the PR stunt" and more than 2000 new people like us on Facebook in 12 hours, it's fair to say our latest campaign launch went well.

Article tagged as: actions, climate change, co2, emissions, EU, london, Old Street, star wars, Stormtroopers, targets, The Dark Side, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

Why we campaign on coal and aviation

Posted by Anita Goldsmith - 2 February 2009 at 1:57pm - 0 Comments
We need to cut emissions from coal power plants and from aviation

You may have seen an article in the Observer citing James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, arguing that when it comes to climate change, aviation is not a danger. We have worked closely with James in the past - in particular he gave evidence at the trial of the Kingsnorth 6, securing their acquittal on the grounds that more coal-fired power stations would be a climate disaster. We agree with him that coal is the critical issue for addressing global climate change - but we also believe that addressing the special circumstances around aviation expansion in the UK is of vital importance.

Article tagged as: aviation, aviation expansion, climate change, coal, emissions, james hansen, targets

Labour: we will cut emissions by 80 per cent by 2050

Posted by bex - 16 October 2008 at 5:28pm - 5 Comments

Greenland

Has somebody put something in the water around Westminister? On Tuesday I found myself waxing lyrical about a new Tory announcement. Today it's Labour's turn. Frankly, I'm a little freaked out.

Ed Miliband - he who thousands of you congratulated when he got his new job as climate change secretary - has announced a new emissions reduction target for the UK. We will, he said, reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, compared to 1990 figures.

Article tagged as: climate change, ed miliband, emissions, targets

Kingsnorth, Heathrow and the 80% target

Posted by bex - 7 October 2008 at 10:12am - 0 Comments

Greenland glacier

The Independent Climate Change Commission has warned the government that it should cut all greenhouse emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 to tackle climate change.

In itself, this isn't particularly surprising; scientists have been recommending this for some time. More interesting - and very welcome - is that the commission wants to include aviation and shipping in the target. That means, for once, that 'all greenhouse gas emissions' pretty much means 'all greenhouse gas emissions'.

Article tagged as: airport expansion, aviation, climate change, coal, emissions, ICCC, targets

Blowing more hot air

Posted by bex - 28 March 2006 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

Drax is the UK's most polluting power station

A year late - the government announced the results of their review of climate change initiatives today and told us what we already knew. They are not going to meet their targets. But instead of taking this opportunity to put in place measures that would really make a difference to reduce climate damaging emissions, they've lowered their expectations.

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, co2, decentralised energy, government, targets, tony blair, transport
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