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SCCL gets serious on CO2
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.
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We've produced this leaflet (right) to help draw people to the website and into active involvement with us. (It also carries a hefty plug for Leeds CRAG, following our recent agreement to work alongside them in promoting carbon reduction.)
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Green New Deal
Some of the biggest names in the green and development movements have come together to write a report outlining the policies which could solve the “triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and high oil prices”. They’re calling it The Green New Deal, in an allusion to Franklin D Roosevelt’s courageous programme to rescue the American economy after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 which marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
The report has received widespread national media attention because of the high profile of the authors. It is a collaboration between some familiar names, including Tony Juniper, who until recently was director of Friends of the Earth, Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP, Andrew Simms, policy director of the New Economics Foundation and Ann Pettifor who gave us the Jubilee 2000 campaign and is now Campaign Director of Operation Noah.
You can read more on this idea at the BBC News website.
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