Summary:

While it used to look like our World Leaders took Climate Change seriously, the latest developments have seen a lack of real commitment. Rising Tide is a movement that is helping to raise awareness of the issues and the action needed to keep the focus to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions.

Background and latest news:
The IPCC has already predicted that global temperatures will rise over this century by 1.4-5.8°C, much higher than suggested previously.

Kyoto, December 1997, developed countries agreed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 5.2% below 1990 levels over the period 2008-2012. Most governments have completely failed to reach even these minimal targets.

COP 6 - November 2000 six thousand people from over forty countries attended the Friends of the Earth Dyke Building Action; a massive PR exercise funded by the Dutch government, presenting the worlds media and COP 6 delegates with a clear message - the climate is fucked, do something!

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Who and What is Rising Tide:

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Positive Action -

"Tragically we know that COP6 was a total failure".
(Friends of the Earth; Brussels, Jan 30th 2001).

Whilst NGO's pulled off massive PR campaigns European activists joined together in a series of disparate actions drawing attention to the causes of climate change; the neo-liberal corporate agenda. Unlike the NGO's these critical voices were not permitted and went largely unreported by the worlds' media.

Faced with government inaction it is up to us to make a change.

"The struggle for world climate change is far from being over."

www.risingtide.org

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