SATURDAY 20 MARCH, 2PM
Safe Climate campaign meeting

City Farm, 1 City Farm Place, East Perth (just next to Claisebrook station)

This meeting will have a report back from the national summit for climate action. We will also discuss how to build the "Fossil Fools" day action plannef for April 1.

Media Release from Friends of the Earth - 18 December 2009

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd must take a large share of responsibility for the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks.

The talks are about to break up without a binding agreement or even a reasonable political framework sought by Australia, foundering on divisions between developing and developed countries.

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution - emissions trading - on the negotiating table at Copenhagen and in other capitals. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about Cap & Trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.

Media release from the Conservation Council - 24 November 2009

The ‘deal’ offered to the Federal Opposition by the Rudd Government on its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme will render the scheme totally ineffective in delivering the necessary transition to a clean energy economy according to the Conservation Council of WA.

Key elements of the proposed package are outlined below (provided by Carbon and Environment Daily)

From Jonathon Doig:

It's very telling that, when the ACF and Union Climate Connectors came to Canberra last week, a number of the grassroots campaigners they brought with them were shocked to discover that they were being asked to campaign for the CPRS, not against it. They thought they had been brought to Canberra to campaign for real climate action, not for the Rudd Government's pretence of action.

Dear Australian senators,

The delay in the passage of the US climate legislation through the U.S. Senate and the near-certainty that a new binding climate protocol will not emerge from the Copenhagen conference, presents Australia with an important opportunity.