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20/12/2004 Governments from around the world met in Buenos Aires during December to discuss the next steps in protecting the climate. The talks, known as COP 10, are the 10th meeting of countries signed up to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the agreement under which the Kyoto Protocol was signed. Greenpeace sent a delegation to the conference to keep an eye on the activities of Esso and other fossil fuel lobbies. The International Policy Network (IPN), a London based climate sceptic think tank funded by Esso, was also at the COP delivering the latest sceptic line: adaptation not mitigation. The IPN argue that it is too costly to cut carbon emissions; the world should simply adapt to climate change. An argument that is utterly out of touch with scientific reality and based upon dodgy cost benefit analysis. In coalition with development groups Greenpeace launched a report at the conference proving just the opposite and showing that unless we prevent the worst effects of climate change, adaptation will be impossible. Read the report here. Find out how Esso funds climate sceptic think tanks www.exxonsecrets.org
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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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