This one-day conference was dedicated to helping you take part in the largest mobilisation on climate change ever. It’s time for action.

What happened on the day?

• Climate ‘Question Time’ Celebrity panellists answered your questions
• Copenhagen workshops
• Co-operative marketplace
• First-hand reporting

Where: New Century Hall, Corporation Street, Manchester, M60 4ES

Info can be found on: http://climateactionnow.eventbrite.com

The UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen this December is being described as the “last chance for the planet”.
Join us on the 3rd October in Morecambe to show policy makers how urgently we need a fair and binding agreement on climate change that has the needs of poor communities at it’s heart.

11.30am: Morecambe promenade – opposite the town hall. Join Geraldine Smith MP, Mr & Mrs Noah plus award-winning TV documentary maker Mark Dowd (of operation Noah) for a range of activities including the launching of the ark.

12.30pm: Walk to Christ Church (United Reformed), Broadway, Morecambe for a Climate Justice service led by Revd Mike Peatman.

Shared lunch. Tea and coffee will be available.

For more information, contact Kathy Chandler – ark@kasulu.org or 01524 425374

Oxfam Manchester’s campaigns group is holding an information sharing and event planning session for the run up to Copenhagen. Focussing on why Oxfam is working on climate change, the human impact it is having now and different ways that you could get involved!

See the problems. Share the solutions.

In an exciting change of plan this year People & Planet’s fantastic Shared Planet event is now at ManchesterUniversity!

This is no ordinary year, and so this will be no ordinary Shared Planet. As young people the dramatic economic, environmental and social problems we are facing will affect us more than anyone.

This is your chance to stand up for your future.

Join hundreds of young people to get informed, learn skills and share ideas to tackle the problems facing our generation.

Now is our moment to make a change.

Earlybird tickets only £17.

Check out the People & Planet site for more details and to book.

Manchester students stage rooftop protest to remove RBS-NatWest from campus.

Image © Toby Bright

On Wednesday students held a rooftop protest demanding that RBS-NatWest be evicted from the Manchester University campus.

Manchester Uni and Manchester Metropolitan Uni P&P groups are encouraging students to vote in favour of removing the bank when their lease comes up for renewal next year.

This comes in light of the bank, which is now 70% owned by the taxpayer, being accused of irresponsible lending and driving the credit and climate crises.

RBS-NatWest sunk $10 billion into gas and oil projects between 2001 and 2006, and an estimated $16 billion into coal projects and companies between 2006 and 2008. The emissions associated with these loans were estimated to be greater than the emissions of the whole of Scotland in 2006.

Students argue that this money should be invested in clean energy technology to avert runaway climate change and its symptoms, such as creating millions of climate refugees as the sea levels rise.

A Manchester student said:

We hope to send a clear message to RBS that if they continue with their irresponsible investments then they will not be welcome to rent branch space from our student union”

Toby Brett, 19, Physics Student

[geo_mashup_map]