FRIENDS OF THE EARTH EUROPE, STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release: TUESDAY DECEMBER 1, 2009
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NEW STUDY SHOWS 40% EMISSIONS CUTS POSSIBLE IN EUROPE
Fair solutions are financially and technically achievable, but political
will is still required
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Read the full report ‘Europe’s Share of the Climate Challenge: Domestic
Actions and International Obligations to Protect the Planet’ at:
www.sei… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on December 2, 2009 at 2:39pm —
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Hey,
At the weekend of the 20-22. November the German youth delegation for Copenhagen (from the Youth Alliance for Future Energy) had their last preparatory team meeting for the Climate Conference. After the meeting they performed a street action in Bonn. Several team members lay on the pathway seemingly dead, while holding their personal memoriam notice in… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on November 25, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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PIK Potsdam Press release
11/10/2009 - 60 Nobel Laureates are calling on world leaders for a global deal on climate change that matches the scale and urgency of the human, ecological and economic crises facing the world today. Political leadership is now more necessary than ever. The call comes in a Memorandum signed by Laureates from across the disciplines, including Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Mikhail Gorbachev, his Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mohamed el-Baradei, chief of the IAEA, and winners… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on November 12, 2009 at 12:32pm —
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Dear friends,
there were incredible 5,200 climate actions in 170 countries around the world this saturday. On the "International Day of Climate Action" thousands of people went to the streets to protest for a strong climate agreement in Copenhagen. There, the upcoming climate conference should set stringent emi… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on October 25, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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Hey people,
I have recently found this very interesting online game. In CLIMATE CHALLENGE you take the "hot seat" to guide Europe through the 21st century, making tough choices that could make the difference between a safe or dangerous future for humanity. Will your ideas save the planet, or will you g… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on October 6, 2009 at 2:23pm —
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Sign the petition at http://www.planetcall.org/
A website endorsed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, PlanetCall.org, aims to collect 1million signatures from youth in the final 100 days to COP15.
With just 100 days to go until the critical U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), a Web campaign launched today with the aim of uniting 1 million global youth on a declaration that calls for a bold new climate treaty… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on September 15, 2009 at 7:27am —
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Hi,
if you want to know more about current global environmental issues, I can warmly recommend to check the reports from the WBGU. The WBGU is the German Advisory Council on Global Change - an independent think tank of top-class researchers. Comments on the reports below are welcome here in the blog.
Cheers
Mika
The report "World in Transition – Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use" can be downloaded from
http://www.w… Continue
I found this interesting webpage today: http://www.8hours.eu/
STOP Long Animal Transports
Today, too many animals are transported under unacceptable conditions on European highways.
The most important issue is the duration of the transports. Current EU legislation allows for animals to be transported for several days. This has to be changed. Live animals for slaugther should never be transported for more than eight hours.
Support 8hours. Our… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on July 29, 2009 at 11:41am —
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Dear networkers,
We recently had some member which used the forum for commercial purposes, such as advertising all sorts of stuff. I have tried to keep and eye on that and deleted such posts immediately. Please note, that any member who posts commercial stuff will be banned immediately! This is a non-profit initiative, its members contribute to the network in their freetime. Our aim is to share information on environmental issues and help each other with news, posting and answering requests and… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on July 29, 2009 at 6:30am —
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Permafrost melting a growing climate threat
SINGAPORE, July 1 (Reuters) - The amount of carbon locked away in frozen soils in the far Northern Hemisphere is double previous estimates and rapid melting could accelerate global warming, a study released on Wednesday says.
Large areas of northern Russia, Canada, Nordic countries and the U.S. state of Alaska have deep layers of frozen soil near the surface called permafrost.
Global warming has already triggered rapid melting of the permafro… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on July 6, 2009 at 9:26am —
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PRESS RELEASE Date 29 May 09
Nobel Laureates call for global deal on climate crisis
Nobel Laureates have called for urgent action for a ‘low carbon and equitable future’. The announcement, which is part of a larger memorandum, is the outcome of the St James’s Palace Nobel La… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on June 4, 2009 at 2:12pm —
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Despite the alarming conclusions of the UN's latest State of the World's Forests, the mainstream media has devoted surprisingly little attention to the report. Snowed under by other news developments as it may have been, global deforestation is by no means insignificant. It's taking… Continue
For those of you interested in renewable energies.
Forwarded message from Climate-L:
You may be interested in attending the upcoming event:
Local Renewables 2009 Conference, 27-29 April, Freiburg, Germany
Local Renewables is *the* international conference presenting flagship examples, proven successes and state-of-the-art technologies and approaches in the transition towards renewable energy at the community level. Multiple study tours on innovate sustainable energy solutions are offered.
Co… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on March 6, 2009 at 8:25am —
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PRESS RELEASE FROM THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
COP15 Climate Conference: Denmark skips gifts and educates youth in stead
The Danish Government has decided to establish a ‘COP15 Climate Scholarship’ for money saved pursuant to its policy of not giving gifts to participants at the Climate Conference in Copenhagen later this year.
At similar international conferences, participants usually receive gifts and so-called conference-kits with v… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on February 9, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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This is the product of photographers from COP 14. Thanks to Robert vanWaarden for providing it,
He also acknowledges the work of other photographer and activists, including Shadia and David, Canadian media guru Adam MacIssac, Fired UP! Media and the band Racoon Bandits from Prince Edward Island, Canada, for the track.
(for a HighRes version go to http://www.vimeo.com/2573993)
Hope, this video encourages you to carry on activism on climate protection and to grow real strong as… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on January 5, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Dear friends,
little was achieved at Poznan. However, it is encouraging to see all these people - young and old -standing up and demanding their right for survival in the face of climate change. Here is a very encouraging video from the Youth Movement at COP, which has been creative and persistant in stressing that "survival is not negotiable" Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on December 14, 2008 at 7:00pm —
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It is the last day of the Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland and I am sitting in the Plenary and listening to the vast amount of environmental ministers of all countries. Each one of them is promising to do something real soon over and over again. Compared to the sci… Continue
There is a strong youth movement at the summit, which has produced the following policy statement!
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December 4, 2008
Contact:
Brianna Cayo Cotter, US Youth Delegation, +011 48 518553516
Malachi Chadwick, UK Youth Delegation, +48 510 731 445
International Youth Unite in Poland for Bold Climate Action
500+ young people from over 50 countries work together, pushing world leaders to reach agreement.
Poznań, Poland- For the first two weeks of December, over 500 young people from arou… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on December 4, 2008 at 6:47pm —
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UNDP Climate Change Profiles for Developing Countries
Dear All,
The UNDP and the School of Geography and Environment at Oxford University have generated country-level studies of climate observations and multi-model projections for 52 developing countries, which are now available at:
http://country-profiles.geog.ox.ac.uk/
For each of the 52 countries, a report contains a set of maps and diagrams illustrating the observed and projected clima… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on November 6, 2008 at 7:54am —
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Press release from http://www.globalcarbonproject.org
25 September 2008 Updated global carbon budget released
Growth in the global carbon budget
Today the new Global Carbon Budget was launched simultaneously by Global Carbon Project co‐chair Michael Raupach in France at the Paris Observatory, and in the USA at Capitol Hill, Washington by GCP Executive Director Pep Canadell. The Global Carbon Project posted the most recent figures for the worlds’ carbon budget, a key
to understanding t… Continue
Added by Mika Huettner on September 26, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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