What’s it about?
Educating children about climate change.
Focusing children on their own energy consumption.
Encouraging action by asking children and / or their families to cut their carbon emissions in some way.

The aim is for 1 million children to take part.
370 schools have already registered (as at 1st November 2009, representing more than 150,000 pupils).

Why take part?
Climate change will affect our children more than ourselves.
Schools have a vital role to play in educating children about the issue.
Our children influence our own behaviour – research has shown that families are more likely to recycle if children are taught the benefits in schools.
Low Carbon Day will be a fun and fascinating morning for pupils and teachers.
There are lots of lesson plans already available so extra work should not be required.

For more info please visit: www.lowcarbonday.com

Panel debate with:
Paul Dickinson, greenhouse gas emissions watchdog, Carbon Disclosure Project CEO
John Elkington, world expert on sustainable development and author
John Grant, author of the Green Marketing Manifesto
chaired by BBC presenter Edward Stourton

Event will take place at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, 28 St John Wood’s Road, London NW8 7HA.
Tel: 020 7286 5181 http://www.ljs.org Tube: St Johnn’s Wood
To be followed by refreshments. Admission free.
Please reserve your place by emailing SocialActionLJS@gmail.com

On Saturday 21st November, at Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich, at 12 noon, concerned Norfolk residents and campaigners will gather to demand maximum effort from Government at the forthcoming Copenhagen Climate Summit.

At 12.30, the Norwich Samba Band will lead off a colourful, family-friendly march through the streets of Norwich to assemble at The Forum at 1.15pm.

The march, which has been organised by members of the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition including Norfolk Campaign Against Climate Change (NCACC) and Friends of the Earth, aims to be the biggest ever demonstration in support of action on climate change the city has ever seen.

Friends of the Earth are calling on Government to commit to 40% cuts in emissions by 2020 without carbon offsetting – break the current logjam in negotiations and protect the future of millions of people already living with the effects of climate change.

It is vital that the US get on board and agree to the cold, hard cash that developing countries demand – to ensure that they can grow cleanly and adapt to the effects of climate change. Already millions of lives are at risk.

Michael Uwins, Climate Campaigner with Norwich Friends of the Earth said:

We must remember that every single person living today, especially our children, will be affected by the decisions made in Copenhagen. Whether we like it or not, climate scientists are telling us that mankind’s input has put the climate in deep trouble.

World leaders must put their bickering to one side and declare an international state of emergency now and take immediate action to reduce harmful global warming gas emissions. If the decisions made mean we all must make sacrifices - then so be it, that’s the price we’ll have to pay to avoid potential catastrophe.

Norwich has the reputation of being an environmentally aware city and this march will give it’s residents the opportunity to have their say and be heard.

Trevor Phillips of NCACC  said:

Solutions to this crisis exist but only if we press Government to act fast: there must be emergency action to cut greenhouse gases, greater investment in clean energy, insulation and better public transport and the creation of more ‘green jobs’ to do all this. This is affordable, it tackles unemployment, raises tax revenues and benefits everyone.

For more information contact:

Friends of the Earth, Tel: 01953 601624 email: foe.norwich.climate@live.co.uk

NCACC, Tel: 07794 690322 email: NorwichCACC@live.co.uk

LCCN members Winchester Action on Climate Change have teamed up with Southampton University to mount a two day interactive workshop. This is a great opportunity to hear and discuss ideas for community level action from a wide range of speakers, several of whom are LCCN members/supporters. Information from WinACC below.

Everyone welcome on one or both days, especially people who are active on climate change locally.
Come to explore national policy options and changes that we can make in our communities to help prevent runaway climate change at this important workshop just ahead of vitally important international negotiations at the UN Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen in December. More information at http://transitiontolowcarbon.org/

Engage with leading experts on policy and sustainability and together work out how to convert ideas into action.
On Friday the conference focusses on UK policy in a global context. On Saturday it explores how to develop carbon reduction measures at a community level. A wide range of schemes will be discussed including co-operatively owned renewable energy projects.

Speakers on both days will be encouraged to think about the relationship between national policy and community approaches.Speakers include politicians, climate policy analysts and practitioners from a range of innovative ‘grass roots’ projects for fossil fuel reduction.

Discovery Centre, Jewry St, Winchester

Entry is by donation on the door – recommended donations from people in work are:
Individuals: Day 1: £20, Day 2: £10
Institutional: one day £50, both days £75

You can register to ensure a place by emailing Nick Woodman on n.d.woodman@soton.ac.uk with ‘Transition’ in the title saying which days you plan to attend.

This interactive, dynamic debate brings together political, academic and civil society voices to identify problems and share ideas for a just approach to climate change ahead of Copenhagen .

What should developing countries push for? How will the EU’s 20-20-20 plan impact the developing world? And what shape will the final package take?

Speakers include:

Michael Meacher MP, former Environment Minister

Timo Makela, Director of Sustainable Development and Integration DG Environment, European Commission

Rob Bailey, Senior Climate Change Adviser, Oxfam

Becky Luff, Director, ChiC

Andrew Pendleton, Senior Research Fellow, IPPR (tbc)

Dr Desmond Turner MP, Commons Energy & Climate Change Committee

For more information please contact Adam Harrison on a.harrison@euroalter.com

Location: B104 Brunei Gallery Building , SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1H 0XG

A two day event on at the Discovery Centre Winchester city, to help you engage with policy and sustainability experts and help you convert your ideas into action.

Day 1 – Policy Frameworks

Day 2 – Community Action

For more details and to register, visit our website: http://transitiontolowcarbon.org

In association with University of Southampton, cap and share, and Winchester Action on Climate Change.

No Planet B

A talk on Global warming by Sjoerd Vogt at the St John’s Discovery Centre in Edinburgh Road on Monday 23 November at 7.30pm. Details from Neil Galbraith  07858 083765

Mexican Wave/Flashmob

Stop Climate Chaos is collecting thousands of short clips of people doing a Mexican Wave and the University of Portsmouth Oxfam/People & Planet group want to have lots of people joining in on Wed 25^th at 1.00 in Guildhall Square. Get into position from 12.45

Home

This is a film by YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND. ‘This is an ode to the planet’s beauty and its delicate harmony. Through the landscapes of 54 countries captured from above, Yann Arthus-Bertrand takes us on an unique journey all around the planet, to contemplate it and to understand it. But HOME is more than a documentary with a message, it is a magnificent movie in its own right. Every breathtaking shot shows the Earth – our Earth – as we have never seen it before. HOME has an impact on anyone who sees it’.

Tuesday 24^th November 6.30 – 8.30pm The film will be followed by a discussion with Nick Walton from the University Environmental Science department .Portsmouth University,Park Building, Room 1.23 King Henry I st Portsmouth PO1 2DZ    FREE entry

The Age of Stupid

If you haven’t seen this enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid make sure you come. It stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching “archive” footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change while we had the chance? A second film will be WAKE UP, FREAK OUT – then GET A GRIP by Leo Murray

Thursday 19^th November 6.30 – 8.30pm

Portsmouth University,Park Building, Room 1.23 King Henry I st Portsmouth PO1 2DZ    FREE entry

Further information:  http://www.portsmouthcan.co.uk/copenhagen.html

Question Time with Ashok Sinha – Director of Stop Climate Chaos

Organised By Portsmouth Climate Action Network

Ashok and a panel of experts will be answering questions like:

• What is Copenhagen?
• What can I do about it?
• How can I go on ‘The Wave’ march in London?

Speakers include: Jasmine Fletcher Principal Climate Change and Sustainability Co-ordinator, Portsmouth City Council, Ian McCormack, Energy and Environmental Manager, University of Portsmouth, Chris Spackman from Portsmouth University Oxfam/People and Planet Group and Aakash Naik Societies Officer for Portsmouth University who’s on the UK Youth Delegation to Copenhagen and Sue James from the portsmouth Climate Action Network

Thursday 26^th November 6.30 – 8.30pm  Portsmouth University, Park Building, King Henry I st Portsmouth PO1 2DZ  Room 1.23 FREE entry

For more information http://www.portsmouthcan.co.uk/copenhagen.html

Oxfam’s Climate Hearings project will bring the voices of those most affected by climate change direct to decision makers around the world at local, national, regional and international levels. From Aberystwyth to Zambia, Oxfam is organising events which will take testimony from people and turn their experiences into effective pressure.

From local villages to large-scale moments, the hearings will provide a platform for the people who are most vulnerable to climate change to place their experiences directly before those who can do something about it.

This is a public meeting where speakers will give their account of the impacts of climate change from their perspective. We are aiming to present both local and global stories, which we will record to put pressure on decision-makers at all levels of government – and at the crucial UN climate talks to be held in Copenhagen in December.

Speakers including Oxfam GB’s Regional Director for Southern Africa Charles Abani on climate change in Africa; Maria Mesa from Colombia; Amy Cuff from Cardiff talks about her experiences in Nepal; Rodney Berman, leader of Cardiff Council on climate change in Cardiff; James Oxenham on climate change and farming in the UK.

For more information please visit-
http://climatehearings.org/
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/climate_change/

Gwandawiadau Hinsawdd Oxfam

Bydd prosiect Gwrandawiadau Hinsawdd Oxfam yn dod â lleisiau’r rhai y mae newid hinsawdd wedi effeithio fwyaf arnynt yn syth at glustiau’r rhai sy’n gwneud penderfyniadau ledled y byd ar y lefelau lleol, cenedlaethol, rhanbarthol a rhyngwladol. O Aberystwyth i Sambia, mae Oxfam yn trefnu digwyddiadau fydd yn cofnodi tystiolaeth pobl ac yn troi eu profiadau’n rym effeithiol.

O bentrefi lleol ac o achlysuron mawr, fe fydd y gwrandawiadau hyn yn rhoi llwyfan i’r bobl hynny sydd fwyaf tebygol o ddioddef effeithiau newid hinsawdd, fel y gallant roi eu profiadau o flaen trwynau’r rhai sydd â chyfle i wneud rhywbeth yn ei gylch.

Mae Oxfam Cymru’n trefnu digwyddiadau yng Nghaerdydd, Aberystwyth ac Ynys Môn yn ystod tair wythnos gyntaf mis Tachwedd. Rydym yn gwahodd pobl i gyfarfodydd cyhoeddus i ddisgrifio effeithiau newid hinsawdd o’u safbwynt nhw. Ein nod yw cyflwyno storïau lleol a rhai byd-eang fel ei gilydd, a’u cofnodi er mwyn gosod pwysau ar benderfynwyr llywodraethol ar bob lefel – a’u cyflwyno hefyd yn y trafodaethau hollbwysig a gynhelir gan y Cenhedloedd Unedig yn ninas Copenhagen ym mis Rhagfyr.

Caerdydd: 16 Tachwedd, 7yh, Neuadd y Ddinas

Siaradwyr yn cynnwys Cyfarwyddwr Rhanbarth De Affrica Oxfam GB Charles Abani ar newid hinsawdd yn Affrica; Maria Mesa o Colombia; Amy Cuff o Gaerdydd yn siarad am ei phrofiadau yn Nepal; Rodney Berman, arweinydd Cyngor Caerdydd ar newid hinsawdd yng Nghaerdydd ; James Oxenham ar newid hinsawdd a ffermio yn y Deyrnas Unedig

Am fanylion pellach ewch i -
http://climatehearings.org/
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/climate_change/

The Age of Stuopid is at 7.30 pm at The Old Bakehouse, Bennett Park, Blackheath Village SE3 on Monday 16th November.

Organized by Blackheath & Greenwich United Nations Branch Association.  All welcome, but seats limited!

Donations please to cover cost of hall and  hire of film.

 Bennett Park is the turning almost directly opposite Blackheath station.  Cross the main road at the lights, turn right and immediately left – tats it. The Old Bakehouse is behind the Age Reminiscence Centre.  You go along 75 yards and turn left into a murky courtyard.

Islington members of the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition are taking to the streets on Saturday the 14th of November outside St Mary’s Church on Upper Street to set “the WAVE” in motion.   Supported by local folk band the Tipsy Gypsies, blue-clad volunteers will be out en masse distributing flyers, handing out balloons and persuading North Londoners to take part in the UK’s biggest ever march for action on climate change, the WAVE.

For more information, contact Cindy McCormac at cmccormac@gorsecottage.com

4th November – 7:30 – Linlithgow Academy, Linlithgow, West Lothian Film : Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

19th November – 7:30 – Linlithgow Academy, Linlithgow, West Lothian Film : In Transition by the Transition Towns - Discussion after film

2nd December – 7:30 – Linlithgow Academy, Linlithgow, West Lothian Film : Age of Stupid by Franny Armstrong – Discussion after film

Tickets all £2 per person. No discounts except if you buy for  all 3 films you only pay £5.

Films are  hosted by Linlithgow Climate Challenge in the run up to Copenhagen.

Fairtrade refreshments will be available on the nights.

Please www.linlithgowclimatechallenge.org.uk for more info.

A chance to see the seminal Pete Postlethwaite film about the nightmare of climate change, plus a chance to discuss the issues and find out how you can take action before it’s too late!

Price: Adult £3.50

Venue: CCA 4 (cinema)

350 Sauchiehall Street

Glasgow G2 3JD

tel : +44 (0)141 352 490

Please e-mail wdmglasgow@gmail.com for more details.

Where: Renfield Centre, 280 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JP

Speakers:

• Mohammed Shamsuddoha (Equity Bangladesh)
• Liz Murray (World Development Movement)

And others to be announced

Come and hear our speakers explain why we need a global climate agreement which is both effective and delivers justice for the global south, and how you can make this happen.

In 2009, almost half a million people living on the frontline of climate change have told their stories at Oxfam’s Climate Hearings. Now, days before the crucial Copenhagen talks, it’s your chance to join the debate.

Oxfam and the London Assembly Environment Committee are working together to host the city’s first climate hearing. Meet Londoners whose families around the globe are facing the consequences of climate change, learn about the impact of the capital’s emissions on communities here, and share your ideas about the positive role that London can play in building a safer, greener future.

The hearing will also feature a dramatic production from Blue Elephant theatre group and a reading from Nobel Laureate author Ben Okri.

Oxfam will take London’s stories along with those from people all over the world to the UN climate negotiations at Copenhagen, to back our call for a fair, ambitious and binding deal.

When: 6.30pm, 26 November 2009
Where: The Chamber, City Hall, The Queen’s Walk,
More London, London SE1 2AA
Cost: Free
More: To secure a place or for more information, please
contact David Bellman at david.bellman@london.gov.uk
or on 020 7983 4791.
www.climatehearings.org
www.oxfam.org.uk/climate
www.london.gov.uk/assembly

WWF CYMRU APPEAL –  HELP SOLVE CLIMATE CRIME

HELP solve climate crime for WWF Cymru.

This year is the most important year ever for our climate with UN negotiations concluding in Copenhagen in December.

As world leaders prepare to meet at the special summit to decide and agree upon a new global climate deal, WWF Cymru are campaigning for the Welsh Assembly Government and the UK Government, to push for a 40 per cent reduction target in carbon emissions by 2020 at the conference.

To raise awareness of this critical time for action on climate change WWF Cymru will be holding Climate Crime Scene road shows at  University of Wales, Cardiff (UWIC) on November 3, at the new Campus Centre at Cyncoed and at Swansea University, on November 12, at the Student Union

WWF Cymru will be setting up the outline of a life-sized polar bear cordoned off with police tape to show to people the dramatic and possible signs of things to come unless we tackle climate change now.

WWF Cymru will be inviting students at the University campuses and supporters alike, to visit the Climate Crime Scene in order to see how climate change is threatening the future of the planet and could lead to the extinction of animals like the polar bear.

WWF Cymru will be asking people to sign up to its postcard petition to demonstrate their support for a 40 per cent reduction in carbon emissions ask during the University Climate Crime Scene roadshows.

All signatures gained during the roadshows and via WWF-Cymru’s online sign-up will be passed onto the Welsh Assembly Government’s Environment Minister Jane Davidson, who in turn will take our message and that of Welsh supporters to the UK Government and to the Copenhagen conference.

To find out more about signing up to WWF-Cymru’s Climate Change postcard campaign and how you can get involved visit www.wwf.org.uk/wales

You can also contact WWF-Cymru’s Campaigns and Media officer Sarah Harris for further details. Email sharris@wwf.org.uk

HELP solve climate crime for WWF Cymru.

This year is the most important year ever for our climate with UN negotiations concluding in Copenhagen in December.

As world leaders prepare to meet at the special summit to decide and agree upon a new global climate deal, WWF Cymru are campaigning for the Welsh Assembly Government and the UK Government, to push for a 40 per cent reduction target in carbon emissions by 2020 at the conference.

To raise awareness of this critical time for action on climate change WWF Cymru will be holding Climate Crime Scene road shows at  University of Wales, Cardiff (UWIC) on November 3, at the new Campus Centre at Cyncoed and at Swansea University, on November 12, at the Student Union

WWF Cymru will be setting up the outline of a life-sized polar bear cordoned off with police tape to show to people the dramatic and possible signs of things to come unless we tackle climate change now.

WWF Cymru will be inviting students at the University campuses and supporters alike, to visit the Climate Crime Scene in order to see how climate change is threatening the future of the planet and could lead to the extinction of animals like the polar bear.

WWF Cymru will be asking people to sign up to its postcard petition to demonstrate their support for a 40 per cent reduction in carbon emissions ask during the University Climate Crime Scene roadshows.

All signatures gained during the roadshows and via WWF-Cymru’s online sign-up will be passed onto the Welsh Assembly Government’s Environment Minister Jane Davidson, who in turn will take our message and that of Welsh supporters to the UK Government and to the Copenhagen conference.

To find out more about signing up to WWF-Cymru’s Climate Change postcard campaign and how you can get involved visit www.wwf.org.uk/wales

You can also contact WWF-Cymru’s Campaigns and Media officer Sarah Harris for further details. Email sharris@wwf.org.uk