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09/10/2003 Students from StopEsso coalition partner People & Planet have spent the last two years disrupting Esso's recruitment drive at universities. The students are claiming victory this year: after years of touring universities with other big companies in the Autumn, Esso has finally given up. The company told the Guardian that it was getting too expensive to run the tours. This would make sense: in the second year of being targetted by irate students, Esso had had to double the number of staff it sent round. [Previous entry: "Arctic ice shelf breaks in two"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Camden protest successful"] |
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Latest Campaign News KYOTO MARCH - Saturday 12 February 2005 In February the Kyoto Protocol finally comes into force. Join the Campaign Against Climate Change on a march in central London to mark the occassion by protesting the US' refusal to join the Protocol. Assemble at Lincoln's Inn Fields at 11.30. For more information go to www.campaign againstclimatechange.net Esso up to old tricks on Kyoto Governments from around the world met in Buenos Aires to discuss protecting the climate under the Kyoto Protocol. Greenpeace sent a delegation to the conference to keep an eye on the activities of Esso and other fossil fuel lobbies.more "Global warming is a conspiracy against America" As a taste of what is to come during a second Bush term Myron Ebell, an advisor to President Bush on climate issues, recently argued that global warming is a myth cooked up by the EU to 'hamper American competitiveness'... more Russia Ratifies The Russian parliament have voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which brings the treaty into force... more Chief Scientist: we need immediate action on climate change "Action is affordable, inaction is certainly not," says Sir David King, the UK governments chief scientist...more |
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