More info:
http://peopleandplanet.org/november4
http://icount.org.uk/events/32.asp
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On the Saturday afternoon of Shared Planet 2006, you can take part in the Carnival of Climate Chaos, the student movement’s contribution to the UK’s largest ever event on climate change.
Thousands of students will march to Trafalgar Square in a Rio-style parade with samba bands, dancing, banners and massive props all with the theme of ‘Climate Chaos’.
The date marks the last Saturday before the next round of international talks on climate change start in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday 6. Kenya’s poor, like the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, will be hit hardest by climate change. Many of us are changing our habits to cut our own carbon emissions. This must be backed up by the world’s leaders taking action, including the UK who will be at the negotiating table. The carnival and I count event is an opportunity for us to tell our government that we want them to go into the negotiations committed to do everything they can to stop climate chaos.
The event also comes just before the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday 15 November, here in the UK. The Queen’s Speech marks the start of the new ‘parliamentary year’, setting out the agenda for the year ahead. People & Planet and Stop Climate Chaos is calling for a climate change bill to be introduced in the Queen’s Speech. The Bill will require Government to commit to a Carbon Budget - ensuring that UK greenhouse gas emissions are cut by at least 3% year-on-year.
The bottom line is that whatever we can do as individuals and in our communities, the government can multiply. Cleaner cars - it can make it law. Sharing clean technology with the world’s poorest countries - it can see it happens. Better buildings that don’t leak heat - it does it.
Thousands of students will march to Trafalgar Square in a Rio-style parade with samba bands, dancing, banners and massive props all with the theme of ‘Climate Chaos’.
The date marks the last Saturday before the next round of international talks on climate change start in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday 6. Kenya’s poor, like the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, will be hit hardest by climate change. Many of us are changing our habits to cut our own carbon emissions. This must be backed up by the world’s leaders taking action, including the UK who will be at the negotiating table. The carnival and I count event is an opportunity for us to tell our government that we want them to go into the negotiations committed to do everything they can to stop climate chaos.
The event also comes just before the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday 15 November, here in the UK. The Queen’s Speech marks the start of the new ‘parliamentary year’, setting out the agenda for the year ahead. People & Planet and Stop Climate Chaos is calling for a climate change bill to be introduced in the Queen’s Speech. The Bill will require Government to commit to a Carbon Budget - ensuring that UK greenhouse gas emissions are cut by at least 3% year-on-year.
The bottom line is that whatever we can do as individuals and in our communities, the government can multiply. Cleaner cars - it can make it law. Sharing clean technology with the world’s poorest countries - it can see it happens. Better buildings that don’t leak heat - it does it.
The carnival will assemble from 12noon in Malet Street, Central London.
