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Latest news:Biofuels Campaign. A large orang utan launched our biofuels campaign at the Haringey Green Fair on 6-7 June, highlighting the links between growing palm oil and rainforest destruction. The campaign aims to stop to European Union Directive requiring 10% of petrol and diesel to be biofuel by 2010 - a target which will drive more forest loss and divert more farmland from food-growing to filling car fuel tanks. The land needed to fill a 4x4 fuel tank just once could feed a person for a year. We got a wonderful 242 cards signed, gave out loads of pamphlets, scared some children (the orangutan did, not us) and had a lot of fun. We followed this up with over 120 cards signed at the Tottenham Festival. Next stop, the Rise Festival in Finsbury Park on 13 July when the orang utan will join us again. Heathrow. We supported the "Make a noise" anti-Heathrow expansion carnival on 31 May. With airlines in a criis over rising fuel prices, who needs a third runway anyway? Climate action: We have now seen the government accept the need for 80% cuts in CO2 emissions in principle, but they have not yet put them in the Climate Change Bill which is now nearing the end of its passage through parliament. The government has also adopted something close to the annual targets we argued for. The big weakness in the Bill now is the continuing exclusion of emissions from international aviation and shipping. We took part in FoE's national day of action on aviation emissions on Saturday 5 April. The Haringey Advertiser came to take pictures. We also collected signatures on the aviation emissions issue at our stall at the Haringey Independence day event on 26 April. Over 1,000 people attended a London-wide public meeting on the Bill on Tuesday 22 April at 7.30pm with Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for environment; Peter Ainsworth MP, Conservative environment spokesperson; Steven Webb MP, Lib Dem environment spokesperson; and Tony Juniper. Some of us also tried to attend the Stop Heathrow Expansion meeting on 25 February, but it was so packed (over 3,000 people) we could not get in. Camden and Islington Councils have now (as of 29 February) joined the 2M alliance of local authorities against the expansion, and we are asking Haringey council to join too. Our call was covered in the Journal. Islington and Camden have both joined, on both wider sustainability grounds and local concerns about additional aircraft noise over the boroughs. The same applies to Haringey - the new runway flight paths would pass over Haringey. Local climate campaigner Janet Boorman said We organised a showing of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth at the Wightman Road mosque N8 on 25 November, jointly with the London Islamic Cultuiral Society and the London Islamic Network on the Environment. We have also addressed meetings of jewish and catholic organisations about climate change in recent months. News on major developments: We have
commented on major plans for Wards Corner and Lawrence Road, both in the
Seven Sisters area, calling for carbon-neutral developments with lower
amounts of parking. There is a community campaign on Wards Corner trying
to save some of the historic buildings on site, which we are in contact
with. This campaign had 350 local people to a public meeting on 28 February. Sustainable Haringey: This is a new network to coordinate and stimulate work on sustainability issues across the borough, with working groups on tranmsport, food, what you can do to make your own home more sustainable, and on involving black and minority ethnic communities. The challenge is now to build this so it can raise awareness and create new projects in Haringey. See www.sustainableharingey.org.uk or contact Quentin on 8801 9490 if you are interested.
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