Zero Carbon Caravan

OFFSHORE ENERGY UNION RMT today confirmed that it will be providing legal assistance to the workers involved in the Vestas turbine factory occupation on the Isle of Wight at a possession hearing scheduled for next Wedenesday (29 July).

By Nicholas Dearden
Last week’s G8 meeting presents a worrying model of how climate talks
will play out in the run-up to the Copenhagen summit in December.

European political leaders meet today to decide what our response to global warming is going to be. Last year, the heads of state agreed to a 30% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. As the Campaign for Climate Change argues, “this could be amazing, but some countries are stalling.”

In 2007, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator Sir John Holmes reported that 12 of the 13 major relief operations that year had been climate-related. This amounted to what he called a climate change “mega-disaster.”

In today’s Guardian, George Monbiot argues that we’ve only got one shot left at fixing the climate situation — and that involves total decarbonisation of our way of life and a shift to renewables. Read our letter to George.

There was lots of coverage of Al Gore’s “The Climate for Change” editorial in the New York Times on Monday calling for 100% renewables in a decade.