Manchester
Climate Fortnightly
Email Bulletin #14
Date: July 19,
2009
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Dear all,
another email bulletin from Manchester Climate Fortnightly. Next full newsletter will be out Sunday 26th July, with the usual mix of upcoming events, council news, “Coping with Copenhagen” etc.
Best wishes, and do remember to send us your news and gossip: scurrilous is good, but we may not be able to publish it!
Manchester Climate Forum will be holding a meeting entitled “Climate Change: a Year from Now” looking at Copenhagen and beyond, the national picture post-General Election June2010, and the Greater Manchester picture between now and August 2010. The meeting will be on Tuesday August 4 at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, with stalls at 7pm and a 7.30pm start..
http://www.manchesterclimateforum.org.uk/ayearfromnow.html
Things of note this week
“While calling for progress and a greater urgency in the talks, none of the big nations – developed or developing – is yet prepared to lay all its cards on the table.
China and India see signing up to a long-term goal on emissions as a bargaining tool to be used to extract concessions from rich nations.
Such an impasse was not to be broken at the G8 and the MEF. Besides, the point of this meeting was never going to be the declaration at the end of it. The real prize was that Mr Obama sat in a room with other leaders (excluding China, which could not be helped) and impressed on them his determination to make a deal at Copenhagen in the hope that they would transmit a similar level of will to their negotiators.
Whether that strategy was a success or failure we will know in December.”
Call to Real Action group and Friends of the Earth both met (separately) on Tuesday 14th.
Future C2RA meetings will be on the second Wednesday in the month, to avoid clashing with FOE.
MCFly Blog Posts
Communities and Neighbourhoods Oversight and Scrutiny Committee met on Tuesday
http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/07/oversighted-and-scrutineed.html
The Greater Manchester Environment Commission met, with a MCFly reporter in attendance.
http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/07/environment-commission-update-july-09.html
Manchester research group calls for Tar Sands companies boycott
What's Coming Up
Tues 21 at 5:30pm AfSL social at The Hillary Step, Upper Chorlton Road. www.afsl.org.uk/node/689
Tuesday 21st July at 6:30pm The next Sustainable Manchester Meeting, the Friends Meeting House
The meeting's purpose will be to; *Meet the Team*, find out *What people have to offer*, develop a wish list
of *Who do we want to be involved* and announce the idea of the *"Save the Acoustic" *Campaign.
If there are any questions you want answering before the meeting, or any ideas you would like to add to the
agenda please email *sustainablemanchester@googlemail.com
Thurs
23 at 7 to 11pm Climate Camp 2009 fund-raiser featuring Honeyfeet,
Mind on Fire Collective and poet
Dominic Berry + inspirational films
at St Margarets Church, Rufford Road, Whalley Range. Donation on the
door.
www.manchesterclimateaction.org.uk
Sunday
26 at 11am Clay Oven and Poly-tunnel Workshops at Southern
Allotments, off Nell Lane, Chorlton.
www.afsl.org.uk/node/1551