Tag: Climate Camp

Climate Camp(s) 2009

Most Popular, Specials on August 7, 2009 | Make a Comment

55-minute special featuring the voices of Climate Camp activists. Arthur of the London Camp for Climate Action media team is live in the studio discussing

• the rapid take-up of the Climate Camp model around the world – there are over a dozen Camps around the globe this year
• policing and legal aspects and
• the justification for direct action in the face of inaction to prevent devastating climate change

• what’s planned for this year’s camp
• legal and policing aspects
• the direct action training that’s on offer and
• the mass action that’s planned for later in the year

We also have four short statements from the Camps in Australia, New Zealand, US and Finland; and a range of voices taken from a recent Climate Camp promotional video.

A political reality may be emerging here that civil action could well force the government to act. This might even be one of those rare ocassions where everyday but resolute citizens have a lasting impact on the great issue of our time. – Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford

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#5: Camp for Climate Action 2008

The 300-350 Show on August 13, 2008 | Make a Comment

A moratorium on coal-fired power plants without carbon capture and storage … should be the rallying issue for young people. It seems to me that [they] should be doing whatever is necessary to block construction of dirty coal-fired power plants. - Professor James Hansen, 8 July 2007

A report on this year’s Camp for Climate Action at Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent including interviews with some of those involved in some of the associated direct actions.

• Camp for Climate Action
• Indymedia full coverage
• 228 MPs ask for a public inquiry into Kingsnorth
• Environment Audit Committee – report on Carbon Capture & Storage
• The Poyry Report – the UK does not need new coal or nuclear if we meet our renewable energy targets
• Cashing In On Coal – RBS, UK Banks and the Global Coal Industry
• Letters to Cargill from communities in Brazil, Paraguay and Papua New Guinea

#3: Agrofuels/Climate Camp Preview

The 300-350 Show on July 31, 2008 | Make a Comment

Biofuels have been condemned as a “crime against humanity” by the outgoing UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Zeigler. We speak to Deepak Rughani of Biofuelwatch and find out:

• Why agrofuels have been responsible for food riots, land grabs and increasing hunger around the globe
• Why the Gallagher report and others underestimate the impact of biofuels on climate change
• Why the Gallagher report is not independent
• Why we need to listen to the global calls for a moratorium on biofuels rather than industry and government’s suggestion of a slow down

Ahead of this year’s Camp for Climate Action we speak to Connor O’Brien about the movement’s plans for sustainable living, education, and shutting down the coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent. And we end the programme with a rough mix of “Soul Not Coal” a song written for the Camp by The Carbon Town Cryer.

• Camp for Climate Action
• Climate Camp Video
• Biofuelwatch
• Leaked World Bank report on biofuels link to food price rises

#1: Coal – Part One

The 300-350 Show on July 17, 2008 | Make a Comment

James Hansen offered Gordon Brown an historic one-time-only leadership opportunity on climate change – will he take it?

Leading US climate scientist and director of NASA, Dr James Hansen, has made it clear that “preservation of climate requires that most remaining fossil fuel carbon is never emitted to the atmosphere” and that “the only realistic way to sharply curtail CO2 emissions is to phase out coal use except where CO2 is captured and sequestered.”

Over the last six months Hansen has taken the unusual step of writing in a personal capacity to various heads of states asking them to bring in a moratorium on new coal. The first letter he wrote was to Prime Minister Gordon Brown last December. He wrote:

“Your leadership is needed on a matter … with ramifications for life on our planet, including all species … [A] decision to phase out coal use unless the CO2 is captured is a global imperative, if we are to preserve the wonders of nature, our coastlines, and our social and economic well-being … If Britain and Germany halted construction of coal-fired power plants that do not capture and sequester the CO2 it could be a tipping point for the world.”

Our first guest is Leila Deen from the World Development Movement about the campaign against Gordon Brown’s plans to build seven new coal-fired power stations without requiring them to have Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology.

Our second is Georgina Woods who speaks to us by ‘phone from Australia on the final day of the country’s first Camp for Climate Action – a week long event which culminated in the country’s biggest ever direct action against the country’s coal exporting industry.

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Ways to Two Degrees

Most Popular, Specials on September 30, 2007 | Make a Comment

A 60-minute edit of the historic panel discussion held at the 2007 Camp for Climate Action featuring:

• George Monbiot – Guardian columnist and author of “Heat: How to stop the planet Burning” (Penguin)
• Richard Hawkins – co-author of “Zero Carbon Britain” (Centre for Alternative Technology) and
• Sophie and Olly from the Climate Camp

Both George Monbiot and the Centre for Alternative Technology have worked out what the UK needs to do in order to play its part in the global challenge of avoiding dangerous climate change. New scientific findings are telling us we need to act faster than we previously thought and move rapidly to a world without fossil fuels by reducing our energy usage and powering our remaining energy use from renewable sources.

- How can we galvanise the political will to make it happen?
- How will these changes affect the way we live?
- Can we, in fact, live better with less?

Recording by Indymedia.
Programme produced by Phil England.

http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com/
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378866.html

#10: Camp for Climate Action 2007

Low Carbon Show on August 23, 2007 | Make a Comment

I left the camp on Sunday evening convinced that a new political movement has been born – George Monbiot in The Guardian

We are armed … only with peer-reviewed science – banner from the Climate Camp

Interviews, recordings and reports from the amazing 2007 Camp for Climate Action near Heathrow Airport, London. Seven days of workshops, sustainable living and direct action on the root causes of climate change. The show covers:

• participatory education and consensus decision making with Alice of the Trapese Collective (editors of “Do It Yourself – a handbook for changing our world” published by Pluto Press)
• analysis of the media coverage in conversation with the media team
• a conversation with local residents about their views of the Camp
• other stuff

Resources and references:

• Camp for Climate Action
• Do It Yourself – A handbook for changing our world
  
• Indymedia UK coverage of 2007 Climate Camp
• George Monbiot on the Climate Camp
• John Harris in The Guardian