Greenspiration News: Climate News

Wed Dec 1 00:19:56 EST 2010

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2010 UN Climate Meetings: Cancun, Mexico

All relevant links – websites, blogs, events, media releases – here:

http://www.manitobawildlands.org/cc_meetings_cop16.htm#links
http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/

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Gracias por Nada

A new group is on the ground in Cancun today - the Canadian Alliance for Petroleum Peddlers - thanking the delegates for doing nothing. Send a letter to the head of the Cancun climate talks here:
http://www.graciaspornada.org 

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The return of Minister Baird – Canada picks up where it left off with a Fossil of the Day Sweep on the opening day of the UN climate talks!

(Cancun) The Canadian Government, led by returning Environment Minister John Baird, has kicked of the UN climate talks in Cancun by winning an incredible first, second and third place Fossil of the Day awards! With three consecutive Colossal Fossil of the Year awards behind them, it seems this government is continuing its reckless approach to climate change in the hopes of setting even more fossil records.

http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/news/2010/release/index.php?WEBYEP_DI=69

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Elizabeth May: Demise of climate bill was undemocratic
Unelected members of the Senate killed legislation approved by MPs

http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Elizabeth+Demise+climate+bill+undemocratic/3859883/story.html

PM allows unelected Senate to kill climate bill in unprecedented vote

http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/news/2010/release/index.php?WEBYEP_DI=65

Unelected Tory senators kill climate bill passed by House

The Conservatives have used their clout in the Senate stacked by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to kill an NDP climate change bill that was passed by a majority of the House of Commons.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/unelected-tory-senators-kill-climate-bill-passed-by-house/article1802519/ 
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20101117/senate-climatechange-bill-101117/

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Send a protest email to members of the Senate here:
http://www.justearth.net/campaign-protest-senates-actions-bill-c-311

Send a letter to MPs and the Prime Minister to respect democracy and heed the will of Canadians:
http://action.davidsuzuki.org/C-311

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Rick Mercer on the Senate's destruction of C-311:

"Most of us, we like to think about what's right, not what's legal; and if you're dealing with people who go through life and don't care about right or wrong, and don't care about democracy as we know it, and only care about what they can get away with, all the Reform in the world won't make a difference."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV8zEjgZ8VE

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Poll: Harper out of step with Canadians on climate change

When it comes to climate change the Harper Government and the people of Canada are on different sides of the issue, according to an Environics Research poll.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/300403#ixzz15ealQn7s

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Protesters booted from Parliament buildings
The group of about nine self-proclaimed “climate justice activists” walked into the Parliament buildings and sat down in the rotunda and unfurled a banner from the second floor balcony that read, "If they won't get to work, we will.”

The group is asking the federal government to immediately take five steps to better Canada's environmental protection, including: shutting down the oilsands, ending tax breaks and subsidies for oil companies, invest in community solutions, reject false solutions, and sign on to the People’s Agreement from the Cochabamba Conference on Climate Change.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/11/16/16173831.html

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Climate change could lead to colder winters in northern regions
according to the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

A shrinking of sea ice in the eastern Arctic causes regional warming of lower air levels and may lead to anomalies in atmospheric airstreams, triggering an overall cooling of the northern continents.

http://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/global-warming-could-cool-down-temperatures-in-winter

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Oxfam's fantasy 'climate court' is both prescient and practical
Over a thousand legal experts, politicians and economists gathered in Dhaka this week to explore routes to justice for the victims of climate criminals – and found that precedents exist

Imagine an international court where the poorest people in the world could sue countries such as the US or Britain for failing to keep to agreements to reduce climate emissions or for knowingly causing devastating climate change. The cries for climate justice are growing stronger by the day. In Latin America, President Evo Morales has formally proposed to the UN that an International Court of Climate Justice is established. It would have the capacity to restrain, prosecute and punish states, companies and people who, by act or omission, make major contributions to climate change.

Top of the list was the "no-harm rule", a widely recognised principle of customary international law, which Field's lawyers say is directly applicable to climate change. Under the principle, nations are bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other nations. Meanwhile, senior academics, judges and lawmakers from around the world are backing the International Court for the Environment.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/nov/12/dhaka-climate-court-criminals

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Government accused of lobbying against action on climate change
The Harper government is on the defensive over its climate-change policy amid charges it is conspiring with the oil industry and Alberta to lobby for weaker emissions rules in the United States and Europe.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/government-accused-of-lobbying-against-action-on-climate-change/article1809399/

Alberta and Canadian Governments Complicit in Killing Climate Policy in EU & U.S. to Support Toxic Tar Sands

The governments of Canada and Alberta are also engaged in something much more insidious: a concerted effort to weaken climate policies in other countries, with the aim of ensuring that no impediments exist to Canada’s filthy tar sands. 

http://www.desmogblog.com/alberta-and-canadian-governments-complicit-killing-climate-policy-eu-us-support-toxic-tar-sands 
Tories play down accusation of 'con job' on oilsands

The Harper government played down opposition accusations Monday that it was running a "con job" to lobby against climate change policies abroad affecting the oilsands industry. Instead, the government said it is trying to "work with industry."

http://www.canada.com/business/Tories+play+down+accusation+oilsands/3868427/story.html#ixzz163nySDVY

Canadian diplomats sought help from U.S. oil companies

Canadian diplomats in Washington have quietly asked such  oil-industry players as Exxon Mobil and BP to help "kill" U.S.  global-warming policies in order to ensure that "the oil keeps  a-flowing" from Alberta into the U.S. marketplace, Postmedia News  has learned.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Canadian+diplomats+sought+help+from+companies/3898255/story.html#ixzz16fiGTKyg

The troubling truth about the Canadian government's efforts to derail U.S. climate policy      

Correspondence obtained and released this week by the Pembina Institute reveals the Canadian Embassy partnered with industry to fight U.S. efforts designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from high-carbon fuels. The e-mails reveal a general strategy to fight these efforts at the federal and state level.

These messages, coupled with other revelations by Climate Action Network last week, illustrate how the Canadian government is attempting to undermine climate and clean energy policies in the U.S., California and the European Union.

http://www.pembina.org/blog/437

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15 Dangerous Drugs Big Pharma Shoves Down Our Throats

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/148907

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An Activists' Guide to Exploiting the Media 
By George Monbiot

http://www.urban75.com/Action/media.html

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Km Bicycle Lanes in Seville, Spain

2006 - 12   Km – 6,000 bicycle users
2010 - 120 Km - 60,000 bicycle users

Seville has become an example to those cities worldwide that did not have an established "bike as a means of transportation" culture, proving that a rapid and efficient transformation is feasible.

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/11/sevilla-velo-city-2011.html

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No criminal charges against police over G20 injuries
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20101125/g20-summit-police-force-siu-101124/

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Support all those still facing charges
Donate to the G20 Legal Defence Fund

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/

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