Model Motion in support of the Campaign against Climate Change (CCC), and the Climate Demonstration

on 3rd December 2005.

This meeting notes that:

1) The 20th century was the hottest century for a millennium and the 1990s its hottest decade. The level of
Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is up one third on that of pre-industrial times: a level higher than it has
been for at least 400, 000 years.

2) The evidence that human activity is changing the climate is now overwhelming. The UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that future greenhouse gas emissions are likely to
increase average global temperatures by between 1.4 C and 5.8 C this century.

3) Continued global warming threatens to undermine or even reverse human

progress as flooding, drought, disease and ecological disruption increasingly affects the world's population.
Ultimately ‘run-away’ climate change threatens a global catastrophe of almost unimaginable scale.

This meeting believes that:

1) There is an urgent need to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change : especially
CO2, by replacing fossil fuels with alternative, renewable forms of energy.

2) To this end there is an urgent need for an international emissions reductions treaty that will reduce total
global emissions to a level that will not dangerously destabilise global climate. The Kyoto Agreement does
not go nearly far enough but is a critical first step. The decision by the US government - the world's biggest
polluter - not to ratify the treaty undermines the global effort to combat climate change and should be
condemned.

3) The UK government also needs to do more to cut national emissions of greenhouse gases. UK Co2
emissions have risen for the past two years.

4) Fossil fuel multi-nationals that put their own short term profit before the welfare of the planet should be
condemned along with the current US administration whose policies on climate and energy they have done
so much to influence.

This meeting proposes to:

1) Affirm the support of our union branch to the Campaign against Climate Change and help its work with a
donation of £...

2) Send a delegation, and banner, to the London Climate Demonstration on Saturday 3rd December 2005.
This mobilisation, endorsed by the Assembly of the Social Movements of the World Social Forum in
January 2005, is part of an international day of climate protest coinciding with the Montreal Climate Talks.

3) Publicise and encourage branch members to attend the UK Planning meeting of the Campaign against
Climate Change, to be held in Oxford on Saturday 1st October 2005.

For more information or to inform us of your branch’s support please

email info@campaigncc.org or phone Phil on 07903 316331