Holyrood 350 — H35O

The Holy­rood 350 analy­sis and pro­pos­als were pre­sented — along­side Chris Martensen’s analy­sis of the loom­ing energy and eco­nomic crash — as part of Scotland’s Civil Soci­ety Sum­mit on Thurs­day 18th Feb­ru­ary in the Edin­burgh Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence Centre.

Holy­rood 350 folk will also be pre­sent­ing our analy­sis and pro­pos­als for dis­cus­sion at 7.30pm on Thurs­day 25th Feb­ru­ary as part of the evening that kicks off the FEASTA (Foun­da­tion for the Eco­nom­ics of Sus­tain­abil­ity) con­fer­ence in For­res to which every­one is warmly invited (details and book­ing here).

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Para­chut­ing off the Energy Cliff: 

How do we enable Holy­rood Sup­port for Com­mu­nity Resilience?

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We are post­pon­ing our next major Holy­rood 350 event until the sec­ond half of May once the final round of CCF grans have been announced and the UK gen­eral elec­tion has hap­pened. This event will focus on the energy cliff, eco­nomic liveli­hoods, and how to enable MSPs to build on the suc­cess of the CCF and cli­mate change targets.

We want to col­lec­tively, real­is­ti­cally and imag­i­na­tively arrive at a clear pic­ture of how com­mu­ni­ties and their politi­cians can work together to ensure that the kinds of com­mu­ni­ties CCF Mark 1 has had less suc­cess in reach­ing can be sup­ported in mov­ing towards resilience, and how we can effec­tively and strate­gi­cally build on what com­mu­ni­ties have been work­ing so hard to achieve. More soon.

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A Range of Responses to Copen­hagen here

The Story of Cap and Trade

Although they sound sim­i­lar, Cap and Trade is entirely dif­fer­ent to Cap and Share:

CAP and SHARE (see right hand col­umn) is a sys­tem which can be used to CAP (to limit and dra­mat­i­cally reduce the car­bon com­ing into the coun­try in line with the sci­ence), and to SHARE (to dis­trib­ute the rev­enue raised to ensure peo­ple have the money to cope with the increased price in all goods and ser­vices which have car­bon content).

In con­trast, CAP and TRADE (the EU response to cli­mate change, and the approach being pro­posed at Copen­hagen) sim­ply enables busi­ness as usual (soar­ing emis­sions, soar­ing fuel prices and soar­ing prof­its for the heavy emit­ters) to con­tinue. See this superb 20 minute car­toon expla­na­tion of how Cap and Trade works: The Story of Cap and Trade

… and finally: click here for a com­ment on the scari­ness of Kevin Anderson’s ‘Opti­mistic’ Scenario