Campaign against Climate Change

The new Contraction & Convergence DVD will be launched officially in the House of Commons in Westminster on Wednesday 28th March 2007.

The long trailer can be viewed here :-

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2492574552022074121&q=contraction+and+convergence

PRESS RELEASE

All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group
10am Wednesday March 28
House of Commons Committee Room 17

Launch of ‘An Incontestable Truth’

Climate change MP Colin Challen warmly invites you to the launch of the
All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group DVD ‘An Incontestable
Truth’ next Wednesday.

The group-funded film focuses on Contraction and Convergence, an
approach to climate change that sees fairness and equity as the best
basis for sustainable international agreement.

The launch will feature clips of the DVD and offer the opportunity to
meet the film’s makers and contributors.

Colin Challen said today (Thurs): “The DVD provides a snapshot of the
Contraction and Convergence climate change framework. Opinion formers
including Sir Crispin Tickell and Jon Snow explain why they support it.

“We've produced the DVD because it is clear that there should be an
underlying discipline added now to negotiations on the post-2012 climate
change agreement.

“I cannot detect such a discipline at present. There is little unity of
purpose but a merely a string of different demands from different vested
interests.

“Politicians have to decide what it is they want to achieve. That has to
be a solution that solves the problem faster than we're creating it, or
be honest about how they intend to manage the trade-off between
mitigating climate change and adapting to it.”
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Notes to editors

1: For further launch details: Colin Challen MP 020 7219 8260/0771
2051556 and ChallenC@parliament.uk.

2: For more on Contraction and Convergence: http://www.gci.org.uk/contconv/cc.html

3: Labour MP for Morley and Rothwell Colin Challen founded the All Party
Parliamentary Climate Change Group in 2005.

4: The number of MPs who have signed Colin Challen’s all-party 25/5
challenge to reduce their personal carbon emissions by 25% before the
year 2010 topped 60 earlier this year.