[Cja] FoE materials on the IPCC launch
Asad Rehman
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Fri Sep 20 15:03:16 UTC 2013
Dear Friends
With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting next week - I thought you might find this FoE EWNI Questions and Answers briefing useful - produced in advance of the report - it explains what the report will cover, what their last report said, and predicts the content of the forthcoming report. http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/ippc_wg1report_qna.pdf
Here is also a link to a blog that Mike Childs from FoE EWNI has written about the upcoming IPCC 5th assessment report chapter 1
http://www.foe.co.uk/news/ipcc_report_41170.html
and a brief on extreme weather
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefing_notes/extreme_weather_cc.pdf
We are also planning on producing some additional resources including a video interview with Kevin Anderson (a climate scientist from the Tyndall Institute) and with Nnimmo Bassey (from FoE Nigeria) on the impacts of climate change on Africa and the need for urgent action to stop dirty energy. I will circulate when they are available.
Some additional materials are being generated by our allies in the climate justice movement and I will circulate those as soon as they are available. Feel free to use if anything is relevant to your plans to respond to the IPCC launch.
Warm regards
Asad
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From: gps-uk-national-coordination at googlegroups.com [mailto:gps-uk-national-coordination at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tara Clarke
Sent: 20 September 2013 15:07
To: Green SW8
Cc: John Bell; <gps-uk-national-coordination at googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Time for GPS UK Call tomorrow
Hi all,
And hi Emily, that's great! Thanks for arranging this John, talk to you all in the morning :)
Tara
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Green SW8 <greensw8 at gmail.com<mailto:greensw8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,
Sorry I've not managed to join in yet - but I might see if I can join part of the call tomorrow so I can at least begin to catch up with what's going on. How would I go about joining the call?
thanks
Emily
On 20 September 2013 10:39, John Bell <jubble at hotmail.co.uk<mailto:jubble at hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
All
Ben, Susan and I have been phoning round to discuss the upcoming GPS call and the idea of a weekend workshop.
The weekend call is now scheduled for 0830 tomorrow (Saturday). It might last 1.5 hours. Ben will be facilitating.
Sorry to Izzy and Jenny as I understand that this time is not good for you. Someone will get in touch afterwards to keep you in the picture.
The call is to finalise the date and location for the weekend workshop and to discuss the proposals put forward by Tara (quoted below) and how we might start to take some of them forward.
With regards the date for the weekend workshop, none of the originally proposed dates in October look possible, so the Doodle has been expanded to include weekends in November. Please do update your availability in advance of the call tomorrow.
Tara's Proposals:
"
To run a series of Power Shift events in October 2013 based in Edinburgh, Birmingham and London to coincide with the Do the Math tour.
- get in touch with local groups to mobilise around the tour: go to talk/ organise a live screening with friends.
- organise a Fossil Free London Lobby tour (mid-Oct) with Occupy London, Campaign against Climate Change, Platform, UK Tar Sands Network plus other grassroots groups who'd like to join in.
- plan an action around the tour to build on the energy in Edinburgh, Birmingham and London with the local groups there.
Idea for London:
Given our overall theme is 'confronting the fossil fuel industry', I would like to propose an anti-Shell flashmob on Southbank in London on Halloween night (the eve of Bill Mckibbon coming to London and Shared Planet conference). This could end with a party with people getting together to talk and listen to god music.
The above proposal is a lot to ask for but these are things I'd really love to spend a lot of time on and add as much creativity as possible if anyone else is interested in adding to it. After speaking to tons of people about the Fossil Free London Lobby tour (a walking commentary of the major lobbying businesses in the City of London) there's lots of energy to do something quite big with Campaign against climate change and occupy London already doing it.
Sue already spoke about doing a Shell action at Southbank so I hope she's still interested and think there is capacity. Again, I'd expect we'd have plenty of support from the likes of reclaim Shakespeare, reclaim Tate, science Unstained and platform with lots of room to invite local groups into the planning and participation.
The Fossil Free planning grew are looking for help with arranging people to have live screenings if they can't make it to the talk but they still need to make sure to fill the 2000 seats at The Troxy in November. I was thinking, we could work the live screenings into our outreach if anyone has any ideas about that?
This will hopefully lead us into a journey were we join in with events, get people together and finally meet the people we are hoping to reach and learn from.
If shifting the power is about proving that we can all live pretty decent lives without the influence of the fossil fuel industry then it's time to prove it.
"
PS - I'm hosting visitors over the weekend, so will be hard pushed to attend for the whole of the meeting tomorrow.
Regards,
John Bell
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