Climate change
12 March 2011
The government unveiled its draft Carbon Plan this week. It is supposedly a scheme to tackle climate change, but in reality it is a plan to use the free market to back up business.
14 December 2010
The outcome of last week’s climate conference in the luxury resort of Cancun, Mexico, shows the utter contempt the world’s richest governments have for the planet.
30 November 2010
World leaders are meeting in Cancun, Mexico, this week for the COP 16 climate talks. But they don’t believe these will have any impact.
23 November 2010
Trade unionists, students and climate activists will converge on London on Saturday 4 December as part of a global day of action against climate change. Protesters will call on the government to take action to create a zero carbon Britain. Demonstrators will meet in Hyde Park at 12 noon for a march to parliament.
31 August 2010
The Daily Express newspaper lied about climate change once again this week.
17 August 2010
The annual Climate Camp starts in Edinburgh this week. It will attract thousands of activists to protest at the destruction of our planet.
17 August 2010
Chance for climate movement to shine
18 May 2010
Around 200 people attended a Campaign against Climate Change vigil in London on Saturday night.
27 April 2010
There are now two sides in global climate politics – theirs and ours.
20 April 2010
Some 20,000 people gathered for a "people’s conference on climate change" in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this week.
16 March 2010
Up to 150 activists came to the Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) trade union conference last Saturday.
09 March 2010
We are witnessing a frenzy of climate "scepticism". Following the hacking of emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, the right are arguing that the science of human-caused global warming is wrong.
02 March 2010
The Campaign Against Climate Change is holding its third trade union conference on Saturday 13 March.
23 February 2010
The Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) held its AGM in London last weekend.
16 February 2010
Scientists studying climate change are taking quite a battering.
09 February 2010
The government’s favoured method for "reducing" carbon emissions is failing.
12 January 2010
Sections of the right wing media have gone on the offensive – over snow.
05 January 2010
The United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen last month proved to be a historic watershed. This isn’t because of what it achieved.
05 January 2010
The UN’s climate talks in Copenhagen last month were a bitter disappointment for millions of people around the world who are concerned about the future of the planet.
17 December 2009
The demonstration "Reclaim Power" in Copenhagen on Wednesday of this week attracted several thousand Danish and international protesters.