This page is being created now to recognize and honour the exceptional people who have emerged as C&C Heroes over the years. This is work in progress . . . and there are a lot of people who will obviously be here. Some may be surprised and some may be surprises . . .                                 Colin Challen Former Chair UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS, FMedSci, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Former Chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Professor Peter Guthrie OBE Professor in Engineering for Sustainable Development in the UK Fellow of St Edmund's College Cambridge Professor Martin Rees Trinity College Cambridge Sir John Houghton President, John Ray Initiative Michael Hutchinson CEO Tangent Films The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Richard Chartres KCVO DD FSA Bishop of London Anthony J. McMichael, MBBS, PhD Professor and NHMRC Australia Fellow National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment Australian National University Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Human Health, University of Copenhagen Ruth Reed President Royal Institute of British Architects [RIBA] Sunand Prasad Former President of RIBA Maneka Gandhi Member of Parliament India David Wiggins Wykeham Professor of Logic, Emeritus, Oxford University Lord David Puttnam Film Producer Jack Pringle PPRIBA Hon AIA FRSA Dip Arch BA(hons) Partner Pringle Brandon LLP; Director WIRED architects Ltd Chair Article [25] (UK reg. charity 1112621 for Development and Disaster Relief) Vice Chair Construction Industry Council (CIC) Council Member International Union of Architects (UIA) Past President Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Commandeur Des Arts et Lettres Sir John Harman FRSA Hon FICE, FIWEM, FIWM, FSE, DCL Professor Aubrey Manning, OBE,FRSE Emeritus Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh Tim Livesey The Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for Public Affairs Sir Crispin Tickell Director Policy Foresight Programme Oxford University Professor Sir Michael Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM,FMedSci Director, UCL International Institute for Society and Health MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Chairman, Commission on Social Determinants of Health Chairman, Department of Health Scientific Reference Group Professor Sir Andy Haines Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT [in a personal capacity] Professor Brendan Mackey The Fenner School of Environment & Society The Australian National University * Member, IUCN Council (Oceania Regional Councilor) * Member, Earth Charter International Council Professor David Orr Environmental Studies and Politics Oberlin College and James Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont. Alistair Woodward Head of the School of Population Health, University of Auckland Dr Nigel Woodcock Reader, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge Roger Arthur Graef OBE criminologist and film-maker Professor Bill McGuire Director, Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre University College London Lord Anthony Giddens Professor Emeritus LSE Susan Richards non-executive director and founder of openDemocracy John Carstensen Chief Executive Officer Society for the Environment Professor Mark Swilling Sustainability Institute, School of Public Management and Planning Stellenbosch University, South Africa Lynne Jackson Coastal & Environmental Consulting Cape Town, South Africa Dr David Pencheon Director - NHS Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) Professor Anthony Costello FMedSci, Director UCL Institute for Global Health Tom Spencer Vice Chairman, Institute for Environmental Security Dr Mayer Hillman Senior Fellow Emeritus Politcy Studies Institute Susan George President of the board of the Transnational Institute Alex Kirby Former BBC News environment correspondent Professor Tim Jackson Sustainable Development Surrey University Director of the Research group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment Professor William E. Rees, PhD, FRSC UBC School of Community and Regional Planning, Vancouver, BC, CANADA Jeremy Leggett Chairman Solar Century Andrew Dlugolecki UK Climate Change Committee Member, Sub Committee on Adaptation The Hon. Tom Roper Board Member, Climate Institute, Washington DC Adam Poole The EDGE UK Professor Lord Smith of Clifton Peter Head, Chairman of Global Planning Arup. Linda Rosenstock MD, MPH Dean, UCLA School of Public Health Former Director, U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Professor Alan Maryon-Davis President, UK Faculty of Public Health John Guillebaud Emeritus Professor of Family Planning & Reproductive Health, UCL Professor Hugh Montgomery Director, UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance Dr Robin Stott Director of the Climate and Health Council Emeritus Professor Brian Moss University of Liverpool Steven Earl Salmony AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population [estab. 2001] Robert Costanza Gordon and Lulie Gund Professor of Ecological Economics Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources The University of Vermont Jenny Griffiths OBE, Member, Climate and Health Council Tim Helweg Larsen Director Public Interest Research Centre Jonathon Porritt Forum for the Future Sara Parkin, Founder Director, Forum for the Future Lorna Walker CABE Dave Hampton Carbon Coach MA (Cantab) C Env C Eng FCIOB, Society for the Environment Board Member, The Edge, RIBA Sustainable Futures, Superhomer, Transition Town Marlow Founder Leslie Watson Director Sustainability South West Nick Reeves Executive Director CIWEM Professor Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker PhD Lead Author, Factor Five, Former Chairman of the German Bundestag's Environment Committee Professor Robert B. Whitmarsh School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, SOUTHAMPTON Patrick Ainley Professor of Training and Education, University of Greenwich Michael H. Glantz, Director CCB (Consortium for Capacity Building) INSTAAR University of Colorado Antonio Sarmiento G Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM México Tim Smit Director of the EDEN Project Ulrich Loening Former Director of the Centre for Human Ecology Paul Allen External Relations Director of the Centre for Alternative Technology Dr Richard Horton Editor in Chief Lancet Magazine Fiona Godlee Editor in Chief British Medical Journal Dr Jean-Baptiste Kakoma Rwandan School of Public Health Ian Roberts Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health LSHTM University of London Sarah Walpole, BSc, MBChB, York District Hospital, UK Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran President, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, UK Mr Tim Campbell-Smith MBBS BSC FRCS (Gen Surg) Consultant colorectal and general surgeon Mark Thompson General Practitioner Dr. Marie-Claire Lobo Consultant in Public Health Medicine NHS Hampshire Tony Waterston Consultant paediatrician (retired) Chair of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Advocacy committee Robert Johnstone MSc MInstP MIPEM CEng Clinical Scientist, London Professor David Webb Engineering The Praxis Centre Leeds Metropolitan University Dr Stuart Parkinson Scientists for Global Responsibility Professor Fiona Stanley Director Telethon Institute for Child Health Research Perth Western Australia Bhavani Prakash Founder Eco WALK the Talk.com, www.ecowalkthetalk.com/blog Professor Andrew Weaver Canada Research Chair University of Victoria Dr Tom Barker Sustainability ecologist, Dept of Ecology, University of Liverpool. Sean Kidney Chair, Climate Bonds Initiative Dr Samuel Bonnett – Biogeochemist, Institute for Sustainable Water, Integrated Management and Ecosystem Research, University of Liverpool. Dr Peter North, Senior lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool. Dr Jane Fisher, Lecturer in Ecology, Liverpool John Moores University. Prof Andy Plater, Director of Oceans and Ecosystems Research Cluster and Head of Green Economy incubation Network, University of Liverpool Romayne Phoenix London Green Party  Campaigns Officer Penny Kemp - GCI Jim Berreen – GCI Dr Richard Lawson General Practitioner Mr Mike Zeidler Chairman, Association of Sustainability Practitioners John Bunzl Trustee, International Simultaneous Policy Organisation Roger Martin Chair, Optimum Population Trust Anthony and Anne Wilson Staffordshire Marianne McKiggan Crisis Forum David Cook Executive Ambassador the Natural Step Ian Roderick, Director of the Schumacher Centre, lead partner in the CONVERGE project Michael Herrmann Senior Lecturer in Sustainability Kingston University School of Architecture & Landscape Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture Surrey Professor Peter Reason School of Management, University of Bath John H Crook Phd DSc Formerly Head of Joint School in Psychology and Zoology Psychology Department, Bristol University Francesca Vandelli Systemic Learning and Development Officer, Health and Social Care Bristol Tim Malnick Co-Director Ashridge Masters in Sustainability and Responsibility Toddington Harper MD, The Low Carbon Economy Ltd Dr Nicholas Allott Postdoctoral research fellow at Centre for the Study of Mind and Nature, Oslo University Doug Whitehead Partner Consulting & Student Bond University Post Graduate Programme Carbon Management EnSight Consultancy, Brisbane Hilary Griffiths Coordinator of Friends of the Earth, Guildford and Waverley. Elizabeth Tomlinson BSc (Econ), ITEC, LLSA, MBNSRTA Dr Keith Baker Director, Sustainable Footprints Keith Taylor Green MEP Jean Lambert Green MEP Caroline Lucas MP Tim Yeo MP Chairman of the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee Martin Caton MP Joan Walley MP Paul Flynn MP Jo Swinson MP Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP UK House of Commons Dr. Rupert Read Norwich Green Party and University of East Anglia Philosophy Department Jenny Jones AM Green Party Group London Assembly Darren Johnson AM Green Party Member London Assembly Dr Martin Hemingway Green Party, North West Leeds James Del-Gatto Head of CSR - SThree plc Raja Mitra Senior executive & Management professional Stuart Jeffery Campaigns Officer, Kent Green Party Andrew Dakers Spokesperson for Hounslow Borough Liberal Democrats Meenakshi Subramaniam UCCK, Kodaikanal Paul Anderson, PhD Research Fellow, University of Warwick John Russell Chairman Giltbrook Studios, Nottingham Esther Maughan McLachlan, Managing Director, Strong Language Ltd. Stephen Thomson, Editor, Plomomedia.com Peter Martin Research Director CarbonSense Dave Yates Newport Friends of the Earth Dr Michael Taylor Retired Teacher Terry Wyatt Jo Abbess BSc Miles Litvinoff writer John Cossham Milena Buchs Stan Mowatt Chemistry Teacher Audrey Urry Liberal Democrat Chris Keene Green Party Dr Clive R Sneddon Liberal Democrat John Dougill Artist Tony Burton Wind Energy Consultant Tamas Szabados PhD Maths Dept Budapest University Rebecca Findlay Lambeth Green Party & Sustainable Streatham Brian Orr Civil Servant Penney Poyzer Author and Broadcaster Jeffrey Newman Earth Charter Kate Prendergast Freelance consultant, member Crisis Forum Mr Leo Giordano Homes and Communities Agency Rev. Canon Peter Challen Christian Council for Monetary Justice Alex Lawrie CEO, Lightweight Community Transport Chair, The Ecological Land Co-operative John Whiting GCT Sabine McNeill Green Credit Dr Alan Bullion Business Analyst, Informa Agra Dr. Robert Davis Steve Wright Reader Global Ethics, Leeds Metropolitan University Dr Arvind Sivaramakrishnan Michael Sackin Phil Harris retired Government Grade 7 scientist Barbara Panvel Centre for Holistic Studies [India] Dr Mark Levene Reader in Comparative History, University of Southampton Jonathan Ward MSci, MSocSc, StudentForce for Sustainability Richard Jordan MA Nic Lee and Heather Finlay London Jim Roland Liberal Democrat party member Ashton Shuttleworth BSc (Dunelm) MSc DipIC DipFM FRGS - Environmental Finance and Consulting Ben Brangwyn co-founder Transition Network Michelle Thomasson Transition Minchinhampton Anne Adams Peter Kent Bsc. Msc Lib Dem. Town Councillor Clare Palgrave Chair; Woking Local Action 21 Scott Ainslie Susan Chapman BA (Theol) Retired Teacher Georgia Meyer Teacher Lucinda Cridland Sophie Rees Zahra Akram Laura Mccutcheon Rhiannon Dorrington Pippa Bartolotti Carolyn Kelley Gopalan Prakash Natarajan IT Director Brian Wills Philip Valentino The Food and More Project Owen Clarke Green Party Torfaen Ms Mary Scott Environmental consultant Angie Zelter Reforest the Earth Nina Venkataraman Liam Proven Writer - London Hugh Fraser Transition Kensington Jean Vidler Green Futures Festivals Co Ltd Ankaret Harmer Kings Heath Transition Initiative & BrumLETS, Birmingham Dr Martin Hemingway Green Party, North West Leeds Jamie Bull MSc oCo Carbon Sheila Freeman  Friends of the Earth London Reggie Norton MA Christine Dawson Artist Nicola Wareing Physics Student, Lancaster University Chris Speyer Writer Diana Korchien Publisher of Calendar of Climate Change (2007, 2008, 2009) Transition Leytonstone Ros Bedlow Transition Leytonstone Roisin Robertson MICHT VTCT Janice Connully Womens Theatre Julie Baker Community Artist Al Dutton Alan Francis Green Party Transport Speaker Brig Oubridge Former Director, Big Green Gathering John Moore Green Radio Simon Eastwood Steve Muggeridge Director Big Green Gathering Linda Benfield Director Big Green Gathering Helena Schnitner Big Green Gathering Independent Astrologer Alan Turnbull Director Floating Lotus Ossie Bash-Taqi Chef Hugo Charlton Barrister Eileen Noakes   To all the Signatories to Colin Challen's letter to SoS Climate/Energy Chris Huhne Thank you to all again for your interest in and support for this letter. There were around two hundred signatories by the time the letter was sent and more have kept coming since that time and are visible here A reply from SoS dated simply 'July', has been received [I received my copy of it Friday the 9th] and a copy of it is here Colin may want to write to everyone separately, but as I see it the reply has two elements. 'New' from DECC is the openly encouraging form of words about C&C and the thanks to all signatories attached to that from SoS where he says: - "I welcome the contribution that you and the signatories to your letter are making by highlighting the benefits of this approach." C&C is also described as, "a compelling vision of a future long-term climate regime, and has a number of distinct benefits. These include: • Recognition that per capita emissions of developed countries will need to come down significantly over time. • The establishment of a firm global pathway to limit emissions, with corresponding long-term targets for all countries. • The development of an approach that many consider to represent a fair and equitable response to climate challenge." This part probably represents directly the attitude of Chris Huhne himself, who has been a champion for C&C for many years. At the same time the other 'old' element again states [which may or may not represent his exact view] that different national circumstances, responsibilities and capabilities are what the negotiations at the UNFCCC have to deal with. This certainly does reflect the situation that the civil servants at DECC and DEFRA have to deal with, but they [a] appear not yet to recognize that C&C doesn't disagree with them on this and [b] that C&C does provide a way of structuring this obviously unavoidable issue in a UNFCCC-compliant way. Regarding the request in the letter for a public meeting, I regret to report that this has been ignored. It may well be that at least some of the signatories will not be happy with this. In fact one has written to me already in this vein saying quite reasonably that a reply specifically to this request is what has been awaited and it has not been provided. At the same time there is an invitation to me to discuss matters with SoS concerning a UNEP inspired review now under consideration. This UNEP review apparently foresees comparing C&C with various other proposals, such as 'Greenhouse Development Rights', 'Cap & Share', 'Kyoto-2'. These proposals are briefly compared with C&C by me here Maybe the UNEP review will go ahead. Maybe it will be useful. We'll see. In the round, I suspect the SoS reply portrays residual conflict within the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Climate Change Committee where regarding C&C, some long-serving civil servants still have a mental model of the negotiations that is essentially building a 'mosaic' in an 'evolutionary' manner. It is from this position they have for many years projected a conflict with C&C. However, if that is so then the tide is turning as the defence of what could still be classed as this 'anti-C&C-influence' increasingly depends on arguments that add up to the mosaic-failure of doing too-little-too-late, or the high-cost of 'UNFCCC-non-compliance'. The fact is that the objective of the UNFCCC obviously makes UNFCCC-compliance teleological and given the risks and indeed the high costs of failure, it makes sense to be teleologically guided by that and do the numbers for a global deal that is globally consistent with UNFCCC-compliance. I am certain that over time this view will increasingly prevail. That said the letter from SoS asserts that the Copenhagen Accord is, "an important step towards an ambitious global deal" that adds up to what "the Accord recognizes as the need to limit the global average temperature rise to below 2 degrees and avoid dangerous climate change". This probably relates to what our DECC colleagues believe concerning their undoubtedly valiant efforts over fifteen years. However, their claim is not credible. The "medium term targets and actions" referred to do not even add up to the Climate Act's "2016 4% low" scenario and DECC unrealistically gave us only 50:50 odds for not exceeding 2 degrees with this scenario. In fact, because of the vividly unrealistic gains in 'sink-efficiency' in the the Met-Office/Climate Change Committee analysis underpinning the Climate-Act and the "2016 4% low" scenario published last year, odds of 1:10 would be less inappropriate. Consequently, the odds of the Copenhagen Accord adding up to less than 2 degrees are even worse. So it is worth repeating, however politically difficult this may be, that their claim is obviously not credible. All the way through 2009, GCI argued the case about the unrealistic rates of gain in sink-efficiency in the Climate Act in last year's Environmental Audit Committee enquiry into, "Targets in the Climate Act: where did they come from and were the models on which they were based valid?" The Met Office indicated their broad agreement with us only right at the end of the enquiry I sent the recent and more detailed animation-analysis of this matter - as shown here or here to Sir John Houghton and Jason Lowe of the Met Office and Jason Lowe has promised to respond. The political problem that attends this however remains the lack of focus and clarity in the collective-mind of the 'policy community' inside DECC and beyond. The part of the SoS letter that reflects this refers to the need for, "a balanced range of indicators relating to national responsibilities and circumstances, economic capabilities and developments needs." It is not an unreasonable line of thinking but to keep within two degrees, we need to get global emissions down to as-good-as net-zero within the next 40 years. So while the needs in this "balanced range of indicators" seem and indeed are important, they are also zeroed out for everyone within forty years. So it is obviously plain error to go on making the defence of this indicators-list sacrosanct and the reason for resisting C&C, while continuing to negotiate as though this degree of error wasn't increasingly obvious to everyone concerned. As things stand, we are being overtaken by events, principal amongst which is the increasingly worrying rise of CO2 equivalent concentrations in the atmosphere. The way to deal with this from a C&C perspective is straightforward. define a full-term global emissions budget for two degrees at the UN - in fact the UK did this in the UK Climate Act. split this budget in two at the UN so above average and below average converge on the per capita average by year 'x' - in fact the UK did this in the UK Climate Act too. then let each side negotiate within itself and amongst themselves - and not globally at the UN - as to how they share their 'halves': this crucially doesn't disqualify exchanges/trading between the two sides, it just for example can get a realistic deal for India and China with 'accelerated convergence' who would then, like all of G-77 square off amongst themselves. Points one and two are the 'global deal', and point three is not; it is simply the follow-on. This is 'focus' and what is needed for success with UNFCCC-compliance. The debating point is: - if we try to take and negotiate all three points simultaneously, negotiations are structureless, random and in my view doomed to continue the failure to which we are all increasingly hostage. We can see that the gap does now close as in a less than whole-hearted way, the UK and others attempted this with the Climate Act and then at COP-15. But the attempt failed and here's why: - This matter is obviously not over and these are the key arguements that I intend asking SoS Chris Huhne to consider if and when that meeting concerning the UNEP review takes place. For now, with thanks from all those who organized this letter to all those who signed it and also helped in various ways. This is just another battle in the longer but finite war on error. If anyone would like to comment [for arguments sake raise the issue of the meeting again] or to become more involved or just to be kept in touch with developments, or whatever you like please do indicate this. With kind regards Aubrey Meyer GCI     .

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