March on Parliament for a 'Zero Carbon Britain' and a Million Climate Jobs 04/12
Campaign against Climate Change | 25.11.2010 13:08 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis
Saturday 4th December
Assembling 12.00 noon Hyde Park and marching to a Rally outside Parliament,
2.30 to 3.30 pm
The National Climate March, on the Saturday midway through the UN Climate
Talks taking place in Cancun, Mexico, will this year take the form of a
'March on Parliament for a Zero Carbon Britain and a Million Climate Jobs'.
Assembling 12.00 noon Hyde Park and marching to a Rally outside Parliament,
2.30 to 3.30 pm
The National Climate March, on the Saturday midway through the UN Climate
Talks taking place in Cancun, Mexico, will this year take the form of a
'March on Parliament for a Zero Carbon Britain and a Million Climate Jobs'.
Timetable for the Day:
10.30 am Cyclists assemble in Lincoln's Inn Fields for Cycle Protest that
will join the main protest at Hyde Park
12.00 noon. Assembly at Hyde Park and 'one thousand people' overhead photo.
1.00 pm March leaves Hyde Park to go via Park Lane, Piccadilly, Lower
Regents Street, Trafalgar Square,
Whitehall, Parliament Square, Old Palace Yard*.
2.30 - 3.30 pm Climate Emergency Rally. Speakers to include Caroline Lucas
MP (leader, Green Party), John McDonnell MP (Labour), Michael Meacher MP
(Labour), Andy Atkins (Director, Friends of the Earth), Maria Souviron
(Bolivian ambassador), Paul Allen (Centre for Alternative Technology
-pioneer, Zero Carbon Britain project), Tony Kearns (Deputy General
Secretary, Communication Workers Union), Deborah Doane (Director, World
Development Movement), Ben Brangwyn (co-founder Transition Towns), John
Stewart
(chair, Airport Watch).
Phil Thornhill from the Campaign against Climate Change said "Gridlock in
the international negotiations does not stop the slide towards climate
catastrophe gathering deadly pace - as we have begun to witness this year in
flood-stricken Pakistan, drought-hit Russia and other places.. It makes it
all the more crucial that we transform the politics behind that impasse and
we can start at home. Recognition of the true scale of the emergency should
bring magnified ambition of the kind demonstrated in the report from the
Centre for Alternative Energy that calls for a 'Zero Carbon Britain' by
2030. Such an ambitious program for the decarbonisation of the economy could
not be achieved without the creation of hundreds of thousands of new
'climate jobs' . It is not the case that we cannot afford such a grand
national project - it is only such a project, pursued with vigour and
determination, that will lift us out of the current economic crisis. The
governing coalition's current half hearted efforts will fail to stem the
threat of climate catastrophe, fail to solve the economic crisis and divide
rather than unite society."
* Precise location of the rally is under negotiation with the police.
10.30 am Cyclists assemble in Lincoln's Inn Fields for Cycle Protest that
will join the main protest at Hyde Park
12.00 noon. Assembly at Hyde Park and 'one thousand people' overhead photo.
1.00 pm March leaves Hyde Park to go via Park Lane, Piccadilly, Lower
Regents Street, Trafalgar Square,
Whitehall, Parliament Square, Old Palace Yard*.
2.30 - 3.30 pm Climate Emergency Rally. Speakers to include Caroline Lucas
MP (leader, Green Party), John McDonnell MP (Labour), Michael Meacher MP
(Labour), Andy Atkins (Director, Friends of the Earth), Maria Souviron
(Bolivian ambassador), Paul Allen (Centre for Alternative Technology
-pioneer, Zero Carbon Britain project), Tony Kearns (Deputy General
Secretary, Communication Workers Union), Deborah Doane (Director, World
Development Movement), Ben Brangwyn (co-founder Transition Towns), John
Stewart
(chair, Airport Watch).
Phil Thornhill from the Campaign against Climate Change said "Gridlock in
the international negotiations does not stop the slide towards climate
catastrophe gathering deadly pace - as we have begun to witness this year in
flood-stricken Pakistan, drought-hit Russia and other places.. It makes it
all the more crucial that we transform the politics behind that impasse and
we can start at home. Recognition of the true scale of the emergency should
bring magnified ambition of the kind demonstrated in the report from the
Centre for Alternative Energy that calls for a 'Zero Carbon Britain' by
2030. Such an ambitious program for the decarbonisation of the economy could
not be achieved without the creation of hundreds of thousands of new
'climate jobs' . It is not the case that we cannot afford such a grand
national project - it is only such a project, pursued with vigour and
determination, that will lift us out of the current economic crisis. The
governing coalition's current half hearted efforts will fail to stem the
threat of climate catastrophe, fail to solve the economic crisis and divide
rather than unite society."
* Precise location of the rally is under negotiation with the police.
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