Iraq Battle & Local weather Change: Two separate protests on Saturday twenty ninth March. The invasion of Iraq had begun 9 days earlier and there have been protests towards it across the nation together with one I coated outdoors the BBC the place a march from North London got here to protest towards the biased protection on BBC radio and TV.
Broadcasters have been fastidiously toeing the federal government line on the conflict and performing as its mouthpiece. The nation was at conflict and correct unbiased protection seemed to be the primary casualty.
I didn’t write a lot in regards to the protest, however the footage and the posters and placards informed the story.
The BBC misplaced a substantial amount of credibility over its protection and I don’t assume it has ever recovered from this, And naturally it has gone on with biased protection of different conditions together with its protection of the assaults on Jeremy Corbyn and of the Israeli authorities’s actions in Palestine through the years and notably the genocidal assaults because the October seventh Hamas assault.
After the protest on the BBC I went on to cowl an occasion calling for pressing motion on Local weather Change. Twenty two years in the past there was nonetheless time to keep away from its worst results – if the world took pressing motion, however as an alternative most governments dragged their toes, pushed by fossil gas pursuits and making largely token adjustments if any. Within the UK we’re nonetheless considering in a method that must be unthinkable about discovering and exploiting new oil assets corresponding to Rosebank and BP has lately moved away from Inexperienced vitality again to grease. Complete insanity.
The Kyoto Protocol had been agreed on the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) in December 1997 and set targets industrialized nations and the European Union to scale back their emissions by a mean of 5% under 1990 ranges throughout in 2008-2012. Some did, though largely by numerous methods of fiddling the figures, however the main polluters – India, China and the USA made no try to do. The principle reason for its failure was that america by no means ratified the settlement.
Kyoto was largely changed by the 2015 Paris settlement and we at the moment are seeing the outcomes of the failure of this to be correctly applied. However here’s what I wrote in regards to the ‘Kyoto march’ organised by the Marketing campaign Towards Local weather Change on Saturday twenty ninth March.
Marchers had began on the UK Esso HQ in Leatherhead and have been marching to a celebration outdoors the US Embassy. I joined them on the Imperial Battle Museum to take images.
The march marked the the second anniversary of Bush’s decisive rejection of the Kyoto local weather treaty. Esso (ExxonMobil) is a key associate in Bush’s vitality coverage and its opposition to controls on vitality use. The per capita vitality use of US residents is dramatically increased than that of different superior nations, with no incentives for its discount and a coverage of low tax on gas that makes the US by far the worst polluter of the planet.
Extra footage from the Iraq conflict protest on My London Diary – and on the Kyoto March right here.
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