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Monday 4th January
With politicians failing to reach a fair, ambitious and binding treaty at Copenhagen, many are looking to local communities for leadership and action. With this in mind, we want to see Leeds reduce it's carbon footprint 40% by 2020, and we've teamed up with otherlocal organisations and individuals to make it happen.
The Leeds Get Serious on CO2 campaign, led by Leeds Friends of the Earth, calls on Leeds City Council to produce an action plan that will reduce the city's carbon footprint 40% by 2020. This is no easy task, but research carried out by Friends of the Earth and their partners show it is possible, and other local authorities including Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham have adopted the target.
Find out more and join the campaign yourself by visiting our Get Serious on CO2 page.
Wednesday 28th October
Hatfield, South Yorkshire is to gain the first of 8 new carbon capture and storage (CCS) power stations across the EU. EU funds of £180m will be matched by UK government funding and the station should be in service by 2015. It will use pre-combustion technology which removes a much higher proportion of CO2 from coal than was planned for the Kingsnorth CCS plant which has been postponed by E.On.
Yorkshire MEP Diana Wallis welcomed the plan as great news for the Yorkshire economy and for fighting climate change, and even suggested this could be the first of many such projects in the region. But there will be many questions about this technology which has not been commercially tested on this scale and on the feasibility and safety of CO2 storage. Read more on the Guardian website.
Friday 18th September
We need YOU to run The Great Global Warming Relay Race! We're inviting members of the public to join us for a flashmob relay race as part of the city's evening arts spectacular Light Night on the 9th October 2009. The aim is to create a great spectacle in the city centre that we can use to enagage ordinary people in climate change and the Copenhagen climate talks.
To find out more and to register your attendance, check out the relay race webpage, or contact .
A coffe-table coffee-art book by Nebiyu Assefa and Joanna Brown. £10