Campaigns day

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Campaigns day

• Making sense of the Big Picture Ben Gilchrist
• BREAK!!!
• Creating a climate of Responsibility This
  years campaigns Hannah
• Breaking Europe our European Campaign Greg
• LUNCH
• 4pm
• Local campaigning stories Tom
• Scheming some creative local actions Hannah
• Debunking the Expert Greg
• Fundraising making it happen! Jo

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Creating a Climate of responsibility

• At the current rate of carbon emissions, global
  average temperatures will rise 2C by 2050
  according to research by the Intergovernmental
  Panel on Climate Change.

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Guinea

• Where I live, people (Guineans and expats that
  have been in Guinea for many years) often comment
  that the dry season is drier and the rainy season
  is shorter. There is certainly less water
  available, wells run dry that did not used to and
  the river (the Milo, a tributary for the Niger)
  is lower. It tends to be linked to deforestation,
  both here in Upper Guinea and in the Forest
  Region to the South. The area called the Forest
  is being logged massively by international
  companies.

Pumping water into a community hold because the
well has run dry
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• Local CBOs are springing up involved in tree
  planting, but environmental education is not
  strong. In my view there is potential in the
  local culture for community based conservation (
  fiercely protected sacred forests, a strong
  pro-life tendency that bans cutting down a tree
  that is in bud or has a nest with baby birds in
  it) but people often say that they are too poor
  to invest in planting trees that wont help them
  for many years. Those that are planting trees are
  pretty determined despite many set backs and not
  that much international support.
• Jocelyn Donald

The village of Kojardan
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Unless urgent action is taken now the world faces
these terrifying consequences

• 250 million people will be forced to leave their
  homes between now and 2050. 
• Acute water shortages for 1-3 billion people
• 30 million more people going hungry as
  agricultural yields go into recession across the
  globe
• Sea levels edging towards increases of up to 95cm
  by the end of the century, submerging 18 of
  Bangladesh.

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India

• Periods of heavy rainfall over a very short
  period of time have been increasing over the last
  ten years. This is not usual. The frequency of
  cloud-bursts is increasing, when there can be
  60mm of rain in five minutes. There have been two
  of these in the last three years and these
  werent happening 30 years ago (in the northern
  mountainous areas). We are seeing many incidences
  of flash floods even in desert areas where we
  experience droughts. (EFICOR)

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• For the last five years we had no good rains and
  then last year we had flooding. It was
  devastating for us. Eight people lost their lives
  and more than 1,000 houses collapsed in the
  district (Balangir). It was a shock to the people
  because almost all the rivers were swollen, many
  trees were uprooted, houses collapsed and animals
  died. Crops were ruined and even now, many people
  have been unable to rebuild their homes they
  lost everything. (TK Joy) Tearfund Partner

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The frequency offloods and droughtsis reported
to beincreasing inLatin America
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Why climate change, why now?

• The current science around climate change states
  that we need to keep temperature rises below 2c
  if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change.
• Decisions made in the next year or two, in the UK
  and globally, will determine whether this is
  possible or not.

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Climate change is a justice issue

• People who are most reliant on the weather to
  survive, and are least protected from extreme
  changes, are the poorest. Climate change is
  already affecting these people.

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Corporate accountability is vital in tackling
climate change

• Britains carbon emissions are officially thought
  to make up 2 of those emitted globally.
• However, if you take into account the pollution
  caused by companies based in, or trading from the
  UK finance from banks, imports, exports and
  multinational companies

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• Britain is actually responsible for 15 20 of
  the worlds carbon emissions.

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Whats the plan?
We will keep calling for companies to made
accountable for their social and environmental
impact both in the UK and in Europe, highlighting
how vital this is not only for social justice,
but to avoid catastrophic climate change.

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Actions

• Our current campaign goals call for companies to
  be accountable for their impact on communities
  and the environment.
• We will also join with Christian Aid in calling
  for mandatory carbon reporting for UK companies
  as part of the Climate Change Bill this autumn.

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Unfinished Business MP3 petition

• Collect 24 hours of messages by Sound Check at
  the end of February.
• Local actions will raise the profile of the
  corporate accountability issue, showing people
  how central it is in tackling poverty and climate
  change.
• Present the petition to the UK government at a
  strategic moment in 2009, tying it in with our
  partners activities.

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MEP lobbying

• European elections are happening in June 2009.
• Groups meeting with their MEPs will highlight the
  urgency of dealing with companies impact on
  communities and the planet.
• Greg will talk more about this later.

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Action on Climate Change

• Through Pray Posts and other actions, we will
  be joining the larger movement against climate
  change, praying and campaigning for the necessary
  steps to keep global warming below 2c.

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Countdown to Copenhagen

• The Copenhagen Climate conference in December
  2009 s where the successor to the Kyoto protocol
  which expires in 2012  is set to be agreed.
• As such it is the most important leaders
  gathering since 1997 and will set the
  international framework to combat climate change
  into the next decade and beyond.
• We need to take this opportunity to ensure a fair
  and effective deal for the world's poorest.
• Its probably the last chance the world has to
  keep global temperature rises below 2C.
• Well be joining a European movement calling for
  a fair and effective deal to replace the Kyoto
  protocol.