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Another global problem, global solution

Today Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband will unveil our manifesto for getting a deal at the Copenhagen Climate Change conference.

 

It's absolutely vital we get that deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from 2012. Like the recent financial crisis and the subsequent deal at the G20, it's a global problem requiring a global solution.

 

I know from my time negotiating the last climate change deal at Kyoto, that you need to work closely with other countries to find that consensus and common ground. In fact, I've been reminded of this need for international co-operation here at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

 

I was an observer at the Presidential elections in Armenia which led to riots in March 2008 and the subsequent imprisonment of 100 people without charge. We've now managed to secure amnesties for almost all of them and a change in the law allowing peaceful protest.

 

That's why I find Cameron moving his party from the heart of European politics to the very fringes very alarming. And I'm not the only one. Even his own MEPs are very unhappy sharing a new group with homophobes, climate change deniers and even worse!

 

So I'll leave you with a couple of short films. One with me making the case for greater international co-operation - I suppose you could call it a vlog for Europe.

 

 

And secondly, a film by one of our supporters Gavin Trait, highlighting Cameron's European mess.

 

I suppose you could call it an Eton Mess!

 

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Bob Taylor
Has greenpiece any ideas on cheap renewable power for domestic use in air conditioning. This Global warming today is terrible
@ 1:31 pm, Sun 28th Jun 2009 | reply |
Cortonwood
Mr Milliband should realise we are a developing country in terms of renewable energy and should allow the UK to develop clean coal technology plants to provide our energy needs otherwise there will be some real problems with fuel poverty.

Why is there little or no development on the provision of cheap renewable energy to provide domestic heating in the winter months if this type of energy is so wonderful?

Greenpeace should spend their time proving and selling this product to domestic customers if it is so wonderful and cheap obviously that is not the case or it would have been done.

Greenpeace prefer to have mass publicity stunts increasing the carbon footprint by attracting mass security operations and use of hundreds of vehicles to achieve this.

The Copenhagen conference needs to look at these issues instead of telling China and India it is OK for them to carry on with coal burning power stations because they are developing countries. The UK is a developing country if they have no alternative to clean coal technology.

Why is Greenpeace not stopping these coal carrying ships at source? After all the carbon footprint of the ships delivering it and their little protest vessels are far greater than home produced COAL NOT DOLE.

Could it be that Greenpeace are provocators of the industrial sabotage that is happening in the UK to allow developing countries to move forward at our expense?
@ 9:42 am, Sat 27th Jun 2009 | reply |
Maggie Thatcher
I know we have not seen eye to eye Mr Cortonwood but I feel sure we can do business and put thing rights that was wrong in the past.

All I ask is that you and your colleagues support David in the next general election.

One of our policies is to have a sound clean coal base in the UK and stop the poor quality imported coal from non clean coal countries.

This is also our foundation for making us a productive industrial nation again manufacturing instead of the failed services based economy. That Tony and Gordon thought would last forever poor utopians.

We might do a deal on your pension fund that we ripped off also.

What do you think?
@ 5:05 pm, Sat 27th Jun 2009 | reply |

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