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BREAKING NEWS

James Hansen, NASA scientist, will be beaming into your living room laptops from the Palace of Westminster, Wednesday, in a climatic debate with the UK Government.

The 45 trillion dollar question : is 80% safe ? Will Carbon cuts in the region of 80% save the world from Climate Change meltdown and fry-up ? (*)

Top NASA scientist James Hansen and researcher Tim Helweg-Larsen of the Public Interest Research Centre go head-to-head with Professor John Beddington and Professor Robert Watson, both Chief Scientific Advisers to the UK Government.

It's going be one humdinger of a debate. Watch it LIVE from the Palace of Westminster ! Kick off is Wednesday 26th November 2008 at 2.30pm :-

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A day of workshops to help us Act Local and Think Global
Saturday 22nd November 2008

FINAL REMINDER
Book now to avoid disappointment. Send an e-mail to register :-
jonathan [atty] sustainableredhill.org.uk

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WHAT IT'S ABOUT

Local community activists of all political flavours are preparing for massive social change and working hard to re-build community resilience in the face of Climate Change and economic meltdown.

Movers and shakers operating at the national level, in aid and development organisations, actively caring companies, government or non-government roles, are also experiencing turbulence and uncertainty.

On Thursday 27th November 2008, PIRC will launch the report "Climate Safety" at Friends Meeting House, Euston, London.

In this report, a full risk assessment is conducted based on the most recent Climate Science, resulting in a clear, incontrovertible message that we should be aiming for Zero Carbon, as fast as is humanly possible.

The Public Interest Research Centre have drawn on the inspiration of the Australian work "Climate Code Red" in this, their decision to raise the stakes on environmental policy in the UK.

"Climate Code Red" has had an enormous impact on the Australian Government's equivalent of the Stern Review from economist Professor Ross Garnaut.

Mean Sea Level: A film by Pradip Saha

Around 7500 Kms from the heart of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] in Geneva or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC] secretariat in Bonn, Ghoramara and Sagar islands are going through their own testimony of climate change related phenomena.

Crisis Forum
Climate Change and Violence workshop series, 2008 – 2010

Workshop 1: Climate Catastrophe, Where are we heading ?
Friday 14 November 2008, University of Southampton

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The forthcoming Crisis Forum workshop series opens on 14 November 2008 at the University of Southampton :  the first of seven, one day workshops to explore and interrogate the connections between accelerating anthropogenic climate change and the potentiality for violence in all its forms.

Anyone who has an interest in this area : academics, practitioners within NGOs and think-tanks, policy makers in government or business, journalists or independent researchers are invited to participate.

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'How do we get back to climate safety?'

27th November, 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Euston

No screaming, no panic, no doom, no gloom. Just a short and simple summary of the latest climate science followed by a discussion of what we're going to do about it.

On Thursday 27th November 2008, The Public Interest Research Centre will launch the report "Climate Safety" at Friends Meeting House, Euston, London. A panel of speakers – Caroline Lucas, George Monbiot, Kevin Anderson, Jeremy Leggett and Tim Helweg-Larsen - will be discussing the question 'How do we get back to climate safety?'

In 2004, the Durban Group for Climate Justice convened
in Durban, South Africa to question the central role of
carbon trading and carbon offsets in governments’
responses to the climate crisis. Members of the Durban
Group are traveling in various cities throughout the US
and Canada in January, February, and March 2008 to
share experiences of the failures of carbon trading in
Europe, India, Brazil, Uganda and elsewhere, and to
learn more about U.S. carbon trading plans and climate
politics.

A new documentary competition is born in the south of Europe. We are searching for films about the global warming and the energy crisis in our world. For all video and filmakers who need a dedicated film festival about energy and climate to show their latest films you can submit your docs to our Festival called CINESTRAT. Films about peak oil, global warming, pollution, waste, nature etc are accepted. The regulations and get all info at www.cinestrat.es. Deadline for submissions is febr 29 - 2008. 7000 euro for the best documentary and other interesting awards.

Bali, Indonesia-Global Justice Ecology Project, based in Hinesburg,
VT sent three representatives to Bali, Indonesia to participate in
the 13th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change.
The convention, which begins December 3rd, is set to focus on the
issues of reducing emissions from deforestation, advancing carbon
trading, and promotion of biofuels, as ways to address climate change.
Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle, Co-Directors of Global Justice
Ecology Project (GJEP) and Dr. Rachel Smolker, Biofuels Specialist