Bishop Hill Climate justice meeting
Nov 16, 2012 Climate: Parliament Climate: WG3 For those natives of Edinburgh who like a good grump, here's something to make you particularly miserable:
Amnesty International Scotland, Christian Aid Scotland, WWF Scotland and The University of Edinburgh invite you to a very special event examining Scotland's role in delivering climate justice, featuring Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond as a keynote speaker
Scotland is positioning itself as playing a key international role in helping to deliver climate justice, with the world's first parliamentary debate on the subject and the launch of the Climate Justice Fund earlier this year.
Taking place during the Doha Climate Change Conference, this event provides an opportunity for Scotland's First Minister to outline how we can take this international role forward; as well as reiterating Scotland's commitment to tackle climate change and the impacts of climate change on the world's most vulnerable communities.
Following the speech there will be a panel discussion featuring the First Minister, Dr Richard Dixon, Director of WWF Scotland; Kathy Galloway, Head of Christian Aid Scotland; and Amnesty International.
The event brings together key individuals and organisations working across the inextricably linked areas of human rights, the environment and international development to inform and debate Scotland's role within climate justice.
Event programme
7:30pm Arrivals and refreshments
8.00pm Welcome from Siobhan Reardon (Amnesty International Scotland) and Edinburgh University
8:10pm First Minister Alex Salmond to deliver keynote speech
8:30pm Dr Richard Dixon and Kathy Galloway response to First Minister Alex Salmond
8:40pm Q&A / Panel Discussion
9:00pm Event concludes
Refreshments will be served following the event and opportunity for audience to network
I'm sure that will get the toes curling. Book here.
Reader Comments (64)
Back in April 2010 Christian Aid were lobbying against coal-fired electricity in South Africa.
(H/T pat)
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2010/4/6/mann-and-the-ig.html#comment7989305
Who exactly are they going to debate with?
There you have it in one press release: the Great Leftist/Green Delusion: you can distribute justice around the world by manipulating climate through government directives that regulate the economics of energy and consumption.
I often wonder if these people believe these pronouncements or whether they are conceits they assume with a wink and a nod to see to what extent they can mislead the populace.
I used to donate to Christian Aid in their little envelopes every year up until 2009. What changed? Copenhagen thats what. I went to an active church to have a look around (not particularly religious) which was on a National Trust property. In this tiny church there were loads of leaflets asking for donations to send Christian Aid people to "fight climate change". Now I just leave that little envelope empty on the doorstep. I feel sorry for the little old lady who comes to collect as she is properly unaware as to the true extent to what this "charity" gets its tentacles into.
What a load of cobblers. One to miss, I think.
I wonder if Christian Aid etc. get to eat a slice of this cake? Its quite big, as must be the temptation to sing from the host's hymn sheet for a slice of the next years cake.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2011-10-25a.124.1&s=section%3Awrans+speaker%3A12884#g124.2
Re: Pharos
The Department for International Development seems to be a major contributor.
It provided The International Broadcasting Trust (of 28gate fame) with half of its income (at least) in 2011 and has given Christian Aid £17.6 million in its last financial year. This is nearly 20% of Christian Aids entire income.
Three times in two years I have been canvassed by Amnesty on my mobile phone. Unfortunately for the canvassers, this was after I cancelled my direct debit on learning about the extents of infiltration - and that is the only appropriate word in my view - of NGO institutional green activist parasites. The seem to have no trouble hijacking the "caring ethos" of a charity and like cuckoos shoving competition out of the nest.
I turn my torment-o-tron hairdryer up to 11 (log scale) and generally give them several quids worth of my mind - I always feel better afterwards. They seem astonishingly naive about the organisation they work for.
The inaccurate old proverb about way fish decompose does of course spring to mind.
tomo
Oh to have been a fly on the wall when you gave them your "several quids worth" hehe.
The Green virus is highly adaptable and when meeting resistance from developed immunity in one host, it can migrate to another with great ease. The morphing from Global Warming, to Climate Disruption, Extreme Climate etc. etc to Climate Justice allows it to infect new classes of carriers.
Climate Justice will reach Climate Equality presumably, when the whole world has the same temperature, the same rainfall, wind speed, and same sunshine hours all at the same time. It just needs us to take action.
Billy Connolly encapsulated the 'influence' of Holyrood with his recent pithy phrase:
'That wee, pretendy parliament..'
Love it....
I'd have thought Scotland should actually push for climate change.. ach well. The Meadows will remain a cold and windy place then :(
Oh dearie dearie me, there is a
“Global Week of Action for Climate Justice,” organized by the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, of which the PMCJ is a member, is taking place in more than 25 countries and more than 50 cities across five continents (North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America).
See: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/282775/news/metromanila/activists-for-climate-justice-join-annual-tour-of-the-fireflies-event
Who can keep up with the ebbs and tides of political fashion/fancies around climate, and all the associated networks 'demanding' this that or the other for the cause? Here is a peek at part of it: http://climatejusticeonline.org/about-us/who-we-are/, and also here (scroll down): http://www.ldcwatch.org/.
One of the curses that the gross over-reaction to CO2 is bringing us is a poisoning of global politics, exacerbating divisions between rich and poor nations. Just watch as corrupt regimes, masters of backwardness, corruption and crippled development, blame the West for their poor performance. The environmentalist movement in the West has long been more successful and powerful than the development movement, and the climate scare opportunity seems to have reinforced this even further. Organisations such as Oxfam, Christian Aid, the World Development Movement, and others would have, in my ideal world, been at the forefront of attacking the policies proposed by the greens, and their obsession with something called 'the environment' - a thing which apparently gives them licence to be as destructive as they like about the prospects of the world's poor. It used to be the Malthusian doctrine which gave such licence. Now it is CO2.
Ben Pile was on to this peculiar surrender of the development movement to the environmental one back in 2009:
"As we say often, environmentalism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Restricting development, both in the industrialised world and in the more developed world will make people more vulnerable to climate. It has to be asked, therefore, what the agenda of NGOs really is. Is it development, or is it anti-development? Is it for the benefit of the world’s poor, or is it self-serving? Is this about ‘saving the children’, or about charities merely saving themselves?"
Link: http://www.climate-resistance.org/2009/11/dead-babies-conscripts-in-the-climate-war.html