[Committee] [Steve] Apologies; Comments for meeting tonight

[P. Candela-Pokorna]

Hi Steve,

One of the things we discussed today at the meeting is how to make use of 
the university media to raise awareness about global warming. We thought we 
should try to make more use of the university student newspapers The 
Cambridge Student (TCS) and Varsity. I was wondering if you would like to 
be the first contributor, e.g. by writing a review of your favourite book 
by Lovelock (or some other highly relevant book), which I could then try to 
pass to TCS.

Best wishes,

Pablo

>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
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>                                          Campaign against Climate Change
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>                       NATIONAL CLIMATE DEMO, December 8th
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> 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.
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>                     INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE
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>                             Weekend of May 19th-20th, London   
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>                            (date to be confirmed - check website)
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> 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/"
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> 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).
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>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.
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>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). 
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>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.
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>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. 
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>                                                    EXXON ACTION
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>5th-6th April outside Exxon, Leatherhead (see previous email and
>www.campaigncc.org for details)
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>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.
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>                                      PUBLIC MEETING
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> "IS EXXONMOBIL THE WORLD'S WORST CLIMATE CRIMINAL ?"
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> 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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