[Committee] [Steve] Apologies; Comments for meeting tonight
Steve Stretton
sjstretton at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 15 17:19:59 UTC 2007
Dear Anna/Committee,
Just a quick message to apologise for not being able to make the meeting
tonight.
Here is the summary of the issues that I see. Please print out if any of it
is useful!
Rgds,
Steve
Comments for Meeting
1: Education & Awareness:
Comment: would be great to have some clear 'fact sheets' and other
information about climate change. Note that th remit of the funding is not
limited by cambridge- this includes outreach even on a international scale.
We can think big. Any material could help national/international events
(campaign against climate change / climate camp etc).
2: Cambridge Plan Supplementary Planning Document
We should be a consultee for the new developments in Cambridge.
Whereas Geoff is concentrating on Clay Farms development,
We might be able to influence policy for the whole of Cambridge.
Need a coordinator for this.
Do we want to act as a consultee (recommend yes). Who should the document be
sent to?
The document comes out on Wednesday. They will also send an electronic
version.
The best thing would be to receive the document in electronic form,
distribute this to our members and to other interested/relevant academics,
then to hold a meeting to discuss (hopefully Eithne Flannaghan could come to
discuss).
NEED TO BOOK A DATE WITH EITHNE IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS. We could use existing
time (25th Jan / 2nd Feb), although a new date would be better.
Those who made comments at the meeting would be asked to leave their email
address and then added as members of our wiki. The response could then be
edited and submitted
3/4: Events and Speakers
In general we need to define who is doing the speaker liaison role
Need to confirm Jonathan Kohler and book room
Need to liaise with Kim Gyr to make sure he is well looked after
Need a date for discussion of the SPD
I'm working on a talk about Energy Policy: when would be a good date
5: Roles etc
Your correspondent sees his role as being towards coordination of policy
discussion and also as national society liaison for the zero carbon society,
e.g. with Climate Camp and Campaign against Climate Change.
Proposal: Zero Carbon Policy Group
This would be national in scope and would conduct discussions by email. It
would use the (new) wiki.
Include media group? Focus on making politicians and media take note.
Two main parts:
Climate Policy
Energy Policy
Press Department
Need a press department to send out press releases and to contact
journalists both in Cambridge and nationally.
6: Website/Wiki
Website hosting has been renewed on a monthly basis. It was thought that too
much work was lost in any move to a google server.
General concern that others don't feel able/invited to navigate the web
server, mailing lists etc.
Concern that information has been sent out many times by email, but has not
been saved.
Camtools has an important role as an 'internal' store of information when
email is inefficient.
Probably best to leave the account as existing for the time being (if we
move the host, this would impact on mailing lists and wiki - a lot of
work!!).
Great to get the new wiki up and running ASAP. HYPERLINK
"http://www.zerocarbonnow.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page"http://www.zero
carbonnow.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I can provide link on the website easily enough - just let me know what we
need to do. The wiki could even in the future be our main portal. Please let
me know when you would like to launch it.
7 Other
Feedback Climate Camp
Climate camp will be held on 14th-21st August. The vote for target went as
follows:
1. Aviation
2. Oil
3. Coal
However, strong objections were raised against (1), on a number of practical
grounds (laws relating to airports e.g. 'attempted murder', practicalities
given the size/mixed composition of the climate camp, possibility of bad
media coverage) and this decision is not final. Your correspondent raised
the possibility of Fawley oil refinery in Southampton (good symbolic target,
possibility of blockade).
A good film about the climate camp has been made - I said that I could look
into distribution in Cambridge Uni and for Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.
Action plans were formulated (please speak for more details).
Feedback Campaign against Climate Change
See below for details
National/International Dates
2nd February IPCC Working Group I (Science of Climate Change) Report
Released. Media/Action Day!!
1st-2nd March Royal Society Meeting about IPCC WG1 (video feed available)
5th - 6th April Expose Exxon Day, Leatherhead HQ (Campaign against Climate
Change)
Sometime in April IPCC WG2 (Impacts, Adaptation etc) released
19th-20th May , London Climate Conference
Climate Change Bill (released in the spring)
Energy White Paper (?)
14th-21st August Climate camp
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Thornhill [mailto:info at campaigncc.org]
Sent: 14 January 2007 13:31
To: info at campaigncc.org
Subject: International Climate Conference/Exxon Public Meeting/National
Climate demo
Campaign against Climate Change
NATIONAL CLIMATE DEMO, December 8th
The next big National Climate Demo will be Saturday December 8th. It will be
part of a Global Day of Action with demonstrations all round the world, on
the Saturday midway through the UN Climate Talks (COP 13/MOP3) in Bali,
Indonesia. See HYPERLINK
"http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/"http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org.
INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE
Weekend of May 19th-20th, London
(date to be confirmed – check website)
We are organising an International Climate Conference for the weekend May
19th-20th (most likely, but to be confirmed) in London, most probably at the
London School of Economics. (check website HYPERLINK
"http://www.campaigncc.org%20/"
HYPERLINK "http://www.yahoo.com/"MailScanner has detected a possible fraud
attempt from "www.yahoo.com" claiming to be http://www.campaigncc.org/ for
updates).
We will have an interesting and full program of workshops and seminars on a
broad range of climate-change related topics - both national and
international – plus some lively plenary sessions. We will have a fantastic
selection of brilliant speakers, as at our Conference last year – but this
time including many from Europe and beyond.
Anybody who would like to hold a workshop or seminar on a
climate-change-related topic, please get in touch - info at campaigncc.org. (
We may suggest amalgamating some of these if appropriate).
There will also be a place at Conference for planning the build-up to both
the National Climate Demonstration – and the International Day of Action –
on December 8th.
Since it is a 2-day International Conference we would like to be able to
provide accommodation, especially for people coming from overseas. If you
think you might be able to help by putting conferences up over the weekend
(especially night of Saturday) in London please contact us at
info at campaigncc.org with CONFERENCE PUT UP in the subject line. Thanks very
much for any help you are able to offer.
EXXON ACTION
5th-6th April outside Exxon, Leatherhead (see previous email and
www.campaigncc.org for details)
If you would like accommodation overnight on the 5th-6th please contact
info at campaigncc.org with OVERNIGHT EXXON in the subject line. Please
indicate whether you would like to volunteer for a shift on the overnight
vigil outside Exxon HQ.
PUBLIC MEETING
"IS EXXONMOBIL THE WORLD'S WORST CLIMATE CRIMINAL ?"
A public Meeting in London on Monday 5th March at 7.00 pm. Speakers
provisionally to include Chris Huhne MP (Lib Dem Shadow Environment
Minister) and Jeremy Leggett, Director of 'Solar Century' and author of "The
Carbon Wars". Venue to be announced.
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