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 Britain's Climate Change Targets
- Can we reach them and are they the right ones ? Talk by Prof. Jim Skea OBE
We are delighted that Professor Jim Skea - one of the UK's leading authorities on climate change, energy and the environment - will be joining us for the inaugural event in BPEC's 30th birthday lecture series to help answer these questions and more. Professor Skea will outline the thinking behind the UK's climate change targets, which are the first of their kind anywhere in the world, and will set out what we will have to do to reach them.
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Read more: BPEC Lecture Series
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We are saddened to learn of the death of Eileen Daffern.
Eileen Daffern, born on New Years Day 1914, spent over fifty years actively campaigning for peace and nuclear disarmament. Her political ideas developed gradually as she experienced life working in the "colonies" in the 1930s. Already radicalised by the second world war, it was the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 that caused her to become a nuclear pacifist.
Eileen came and settled in Brighton in 1960, and for many years was active in various local and national peace groups. Throughout the early and mid-'80s as Secretary of the Sussex Alliance For Nuclear Disarmament (SAND) she worked hard to open up a dialogue with peace activists and official Peace Committees in the Soviet East. She was one of the first members of the Brighton Peace Centre, joining in 1982 and continuing her membership throughout her life. She held BPEC membership no. 0009.
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Read more: Eileen Daffern
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We will celebrate our 30th Anniversary in 2012 - help us build on our achievements!
As public services face the most drastic cuts for a generation, BPEC is facing up to the loss of key grant funding, we therefore need to raise £30,000 to avoid cuts to our staffing and services.
- £20 – Will pay for one months worth of expenses for our lovely volunteers
- £50 helps us train a teacher in global education. This teacher can share this knowledge with over 30 children in every class they teach from then on
- £200 – Will pay for the reprinting of our Information Sheets
- £600 – Will pay for one day of Global Education training in a school
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Here is an a short animation we recently put together showing the work we do at BPEC. This video is also posted on our YouTube channel. You can subscribe to it here. |
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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) are currently campaigning by saying No to Nuclear Power.Goverment spin doctors and the nuclear industry myth makers are working overtime repackaging nuclear power as a 'green' solution to climate change,But nuclear power is no fix,it's not quick and its not worth the risk.
Nuclear power is not the answer - it is not carbon-free. The whole nuclear cycle from uranium mining onwards produces more greenhouse gases than most renewable energy sources, with up to 50% more emissions than wind power. Doubling nuclear power in the UK would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8% and this would come too late as each power station takes at least ten years to be up and running.
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Read more: Nuclear Power - Not the answer to Climate Change
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 The Climate Connections project continues to evolve and the latest photo exhibition is now attracting interest on Brighton seafront next to the Birdcage bandstand. Connecting people in Brighton and Hove with people living around the world, the project tells the stories of people who are affected by the changing climate and are doing something about it.
This is the fourth time that the exhibition has gone out in the city, and this time there are seven new stories. Why not go along and pick up lots of information about what is going on in the city. Every Sunday in August from 12noon to 3pm there will be an information stall next to the exhibition, and an opportunity for you to meet people involved in the project.
click here for more info
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