David Jeanneret

Be politically engaged with Bristol City Council about Carbon Emissions

Contraction and Convergence. This is about getting Climate Change action on to the political agenda at every level. Can you help by signing up to this initiative?

‘Contraction and Convergence’ would overcome the objections of the most reluctant governments, while being fair and just to countries and their peoples across the world.

‘Contraction’ means what we all know – that total emissions must be scaled down to a tolerable level.

‘Convergence’ is the even-handed bit. It means that each country’s share of those emissions must be scaled down progressively until each one’s quota is proportional to its population. No matter where in the world we live, we’ll all have the same, capped, ‘right to pollute’. Then (this appeals especially to the marketeers and globalisers, as well as those who want to see money flow – for once – from rich to poor) countries can trade their quotas – heavy users like the USA can buy from light users, generally the poorer countries.

and Locally…..

In Bristol we’re using the council’s ‘e-petition’ facility to ask them to declare in favour of C+C, and to lean on MPs and government to adopt it too. It shouldn’t be too ambitious. It’s part of LibDem party policy (like the Greens and Respect) and many leading figures in other parties support it too. A few other councils (like Norwich, with its influential Green group of councillors) have already adopted it. With our petition, we want to give Bristol that little bit of incentive to do the same.

Taken From Bristol Green Party’s Bristol C+C Petition Leaflet

More info about the Proposed C+C model resolution for the City Council to consider

Filed under: Save the World on April 11th, 2006