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The Big Ask
Climate & Energy Campaign

Climate Change: The Biggest Threat our Planet is Facing!

ACTIVITIES in Feb. 2008


PAN-EUROPEAN BIG ASK LAUNCH

ACTIVITIES in Dec. 2007

08.12.07 Global Climate Action Day

03.-14.12.07 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia - CoP13/ MoP3

 Latest Press Releases

27.02.08Friends of the Earth Europe launches 'Big Ask' climate campaign across Europe

23.01.08 Greenhouse gas targets too weak to stop climate change - Improvements overshadowed by Bali-backtracking and push for biofuels

18.01.08 EU climate policy under attack

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Action Gallery

2007 03 EU Flag

March 2007 1 Million Signature Campaign in Brussels

March 2007 Giant EU Energy Flag in Brussels

Summer 2006 Climate Deal

March 2006
Spring Summit

October 2005
EU Council Meeting in Luxembourg

December 2005
Climate Mosaic in Montreal

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About Us

Campaign Coordination in Brussels

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Big Ask Meeting, Oct 2007, CZ

 
Why do we need to fight climate change?

Climate change is the single biggest environmental threat facing our planet. Burning too much coal, oil and gas pollutes the atmosphere with greenhouse gases that heat up the planet. According to the latest findings of the UN international panel of experts (IPCC) temperature could rise up to 6.4°C by the end of this century.

If the global average temperature rises, so will the number and intensity of freak weather events such as flash floods, storms, heat waves, mudslides or droughts, causing catastrophic social, environmental and economic damages. Rising sea levels will wipe whole countries off the globe and is responsible for a new category of refugees : climate refugees.

What FoEE believes needs to be done

To prevent climate change we need an energy revolution through increasing energy conservation and energy efficiency, increasing the share of renewable energy sources and phasing out nuclear power. Greenhouse gas emissions have to be reduced first where they occur the most: in the rich, industrialised world.

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At the UN climate negotiations, governments must agree on urgently needed future steps to drastically cut greenhouse gas pollution. The European Union must take the lead at these negotiations, showing that Europe is ready to further cut back greenhouse gas emissions after 2012, when the provisions of the global climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, will end. These negotiations need to be completed by 2009.

On the other hand the EU has to show firm engagement by implementing already existing energy policies and create new ambitious ones. So far the EU has agreed only to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020. And only if other developed countries would join in, the EU would be ready to reduce emissions by 30% by 2020.

FoEE calls on the EU to step up ist commitment and agree to unconditionally reduce ist emissions by at least 30% by 2020 and 90% by 2050, through domestic action alone. On top of this, huge additional obligations will be needed from the EU and other industrialised countries.

This is necessary to stay below a dangerous temperature rise of 2°C. To achieve this we have to fundamentally change the way how we produce and consume energy and the EU has to implement tough legislation in the areas of energy conservation and efficiency as well as renewables.

 

Nukes 2007/06

 

Big Ask Launch - Thom Yorke


 

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