Climate change activist prevented from travelling to Copenhagen
The decision by police to stop a climate change activist from travelling to Copenhagen is "outrageous", Friends of the Earth said today.
View ArticleMajor Economies Forum fails to break deadlock on climate negotiations
The Major Economies Forum, hosted by Ed Miliband in London, has failed to break the current deadlock on climate negotiations, Friends of the Earth said today.
View ArticleGordon Brown right to acknowledge importance of global climate deal
Gordon Brown is right to acknowledge the vital importance of reaching a global deal on climate change, Friends of the Earth said today.
View ArticleMiliband casts doubt on climate agreement in Copenhagen
UK climate minister Ed Miliband casts doubt on a binding climate agreement being reached in Copenhagen
View ArticleCarbon trading 'the next sub-prime' - new research
Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second â sub-prime' style financial collapse and fail to protect the world from global warming catastrophe, a new report...
View ArticleEd Miliband's energy policy leaves UK's credibility at Copenhagen in tatters
In response to Ed Miliband's energy statement to parliament today, the World Development Movement reacted with disappointment and argued that the UK's credibility at Copenhagen has been...
View ArticleHelp write a vision for Copenhagen
The Government are asking students to put together a manifesto for the climate talks in Copenhagen next month, so let's tell them what we want.
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 1
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY ONE by Dr Sam Gardner. Monday 7th December 2009Right now, assuming part two of my seven-part journey has gone to plan, I should have eaten a hearty breakfast and...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 2
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY TWO - by Dr Sam Gardner. Tuesday 8th December 2009OK, I’m getting closer. Honest.And by the time you read this I should have completed stage six of my seven part...
View ArticleStop Climate Chaos Scotland goes to Copenhagen
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland has sent a delegation to Copenhagen to promote the Scottish Climate Change Act as an example of ambitious climate change legislation that should be followed by other rich...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 3
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY THREE - by Dr Sam Gardner. Wednesday 9th December 2009My first encounter with Copenhagen public transport was slightly surreal. It turned out my driver was a big...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 4
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY FOUR by Dr Sam Gardner. Thursday 10th December 2009It’s perhaps a sign of man's ability to adapt to new environments that having only been in the COP15 world for...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 5
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Five - by Dr Sam Gardner. Friday 11th December 2009Yesterday Copenhagen replaced Tiger Woods as the world's number one search query on Google. If interest in...
View ArticleEU announcement on climate finance
11th DecemberCommenting on the conclusion of the Council of European Heads of State today, the UK based coalition Stop Climate Chaos (SCC), which organised The Wave - the world’s largest ever...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 6
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Six - by Dr Sam Gardner. Saturday 12th December 2009Over the two weeks of this conference Copenhagen has been renamed Hopenhagen. Everywhere you go the signs and...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 7
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Seven - by Dr Richard Dixon. Sunday 13th December 2009It was great to meet a number of familiar faces again, once I had been through the long queue for...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 8
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Eight - by Dr Richard Dixon. Monday 14th December 2009Sunday was a day of planning, with an incredible seven hours’ worth for the international Climate Action...
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Blog from Copenhagen: Part 1
Stop Climate Chaos @ Cop15 DAY ONE by Sam Clarke Saturday 12th December 2009The sun was shining weakly as I emerged from my compartment on the train from Koln. It had been a wet and windy evening, but...
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Blog from Copenhagen: Part 2
Stop Climate Chaos @ Cop15 DAY TWO by Sam Clarke Sunday 13th December 2009Despite my clear need to find out a lot more about what's going on, today had to be the day of demonstrating. An early...
View ArticleCOP15 and the Fossil of the Day - 14th December
The focus of today's negotiations at the UN COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen has been split between the G77-China countries, Canada and the USA.Around lunchtime representatives of the G77-China...
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Blog from Copenhagen: Part 3
Stop Climate Chaos @ Cop15 DAY THREE by Sam Clarke Monday 14th December 2009Sunday was spent exploring the remains of Viking longboats in Rosskilde, fascinating but hard to connect to Climate Change....
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 9
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Nine - by Dr Richard Dixon. Tuesday 15th December 2009There was double chaos at the Bella Center yesterday. At the negotiations the African grouping decided that...
View ArticleCOP15 and the Fossil of the Day - 15th December
It seemed to be a quieter day at COP15 today, with one of the few highlights being a speech from Al Gore where he seemed to address yesterday's G77-China walkout:We need transparency for developed,...
View ArticleFRIENDS OF THE EARTH SUSPENDED FROM UN CLIMATE TALKS
Friends of the Earth representatives have been barred from the UN climate talks in Copenhagen
View ArticleAn open letter to Barack Obama on the eve of his arrivial at the Climate Summit
Dear Mr. President, Now is the time to give hope more than a voice. As you depart for the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, I feel compelled to express my hope and desire for the role you will play...
View ArticleCOP15 and the Fossil of the Day - 16th December
Today has been a rollercoaster of activity at the UN talks in Copenhagen, but unfortunately still a depressing lack of progress.In the morning 100s of activists tried to get in to the Bella Centre,...
View ArticleUS backs $100bn climate fund
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has announced support for a $100bn climate fund.
View ArticleBrown speaks at UN climate talks - he must now show leadership in negotiations
Gordon Brown has rightly warned of the need for urgent action to tackle climate change - and he must show leadership, Friends of the Earth said.
View ArticleNaomi Klein on activism's impact on the climate negotiations
This blog by Mike Gaworecki was originally posted on the Climate Rescue weblog earlier today.read more
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 10
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Ten - by Dr Richard Dixon. Wednesday 16th December 2009It is remarkable how popular you become when you have bottles of whisky to give away. Stop Climate Chaos...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 11
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Eleven - by Dr Richard Dixon. Thursday 17th December 2009Wednesday started with braving the beefed up police presence and the snow to spend 90 minutes giving out...
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Blog from Copenhagen: Part 4
Stop Climate Chaos @ Cop15 DAY FIVE by Sam Clarke Wednesday 16th December 2009This will be my last message from Copenhagen. As of Tuesday, NGOs were being restricted to around 20 of their planned...
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COP15 and the Fossil of the Day - 17th December
While the day began in a deadlock with some officials saying they'd given up on reaching a deal that worked for the G77-China countries and the richer nations, surprisingly the US were instrumental in...
View ArticleLeaked documents prove current climate offers are crap
With the Copenhagen talks going nowhere fast, a leaked document has caused some excitement here in the Greenpeace office and throughout the campaigning fraternity here in the Danish capital. Actually,...
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Greenpeace spectacularly crashes Queen's dinner party at Copenhagen Climate...
Our delegation being evicted© Scanpix / Jens Norgaard Larsen We thought it unfair that among the Heads of State invited to the Queen's dinner in Copenhagen, that a representative of the whole planet...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 12
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Twelve - by Dr Richard Dixon. Friday 18th December 2009Yesterday only 300 NGO people were allowed into the Bella Center. Several NGOs tried to sit in overnight....
View ArticleFacts behind the climate finance figures at Copenhagen revealed
Today's analysis from the World Development Movement shows how little cash developed countries are really committing.
View ArticleCOP15 conclusions and the Colossal Fossil of the Year - 18th December
COP15 is still wrapping up, and the sense that more progress should have been made is tangible. Barack Obama's big speech today failed to commit the USA to anything more than they had previously signed...
View ArticleBrokenhagen - climate summit ends in failure
The world's wealthiest nations, led by the US, are using strong-arm tactics to try and force poor countries into signing onto the Copenhagen Accord, Friends of the Earth said today.
View ArticleConclusion of UN COP15 climate summit (press release)
Commenting on the conclusion of UN climate summit in Copenhagen today, the UK based coalition Stop Climate Chaos (SCC), which organised The Wave – the world’s largest demonstration for action on...
View ArticleCOP15 conclusions - 19th December
As world leaders walk away from the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen (COP15), a watered-down accord was accepted by the Conference of the Parties on Saturday morning. The accord which was largely...
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Real leaders face Christmas jail time while politicians flee climate crime scene
Our delegation being evicted© Scanpix / Jens Norgaard Larsen Four of our activists face the prospect of Christmas in jail this year over charges relating to a protest at the Heads of State dinner at...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 13
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Thirteen - by Dr Richard Dixon. Saturday 19th December 2009Friday started with a live input to the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme from the roof of a hotel...
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SCCS blog from Copenhagen: Part 14
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @ Cop15 DAY Fourteen - by Dr Richard Dixon. Sunday 20th December 2009After Obama’s private press conference the world thought they knew what had been agreed and that became...
View ArticleStop Climate Chaos Scotland response to COP15 Copenhagen talks
Speaking on the outcome of the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen, Mike Robinson, Chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland said:We needed commitments of money, ambitious targets and a legal...
View ArticleWrite to Gordon, demand a real deal
After the disappointing result from COP15, we have to keep the pressure on world leaders. Use this Oxfam action to write to Gordon Brown and demand a real deal.read more
View ArticleWrite to Ed Miliband demanding 40% reductions
The UK needs to commit to a minimum of 40% emissions reductions (based on 1990 levels) to stand a 50:50 chance of avoiding global temperature rises exceeding the danger level of 2°C.Use Friends of the...
View ArticleAsk Gordon for 40% emissions cuts
Current EU commitments to 20% emissions cuts (based on 1990 levels), rising to 30% if a strong global deal is agreed, are simply not enough.The target for the EU needs to be at least 40% if we want to...
View ArticleAsk Gordon to get a climate deal back on track
COP15 ended so badly, Christian Aid want you to write to Gordon Brown, Spain's José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and European Council president, Herman Van Rompuy asking them to commit the EU to a 30%...
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The Wave
faq | schedule | videos | get involved! | who | travel faq | mediaWhat's The Wave?What's the Plan?How Can I Help?How Do I Get There?1. What's The Wave?On Saturday 5 December 2009, ahead of the crucial...
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