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Tarrel
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Climate Week?

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Did anyone know we're just coming to the end of Climate Week?

http://www.climateweek.com/

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Re: Climate Week?

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Tarrel wrote:Did anyone know we're just coming to the end of Climate Week?

http://www.climateweek.com/

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Nope...

Let's raise awareness about shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, why not.
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Tarrel wrote:Did anyone know we're just coming to the end of Climate Week?

http://www.climateweek.com/

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Yes.

It happens every year. It's a very mainstream, establishment, big industry sort of event, possibly the pinnacle of greenwashing.

The supporters list may be instructive:
http://www.climateweek.com/supporters/

Many of the great and good alongside the greatly bad are on the list:
Supporters

Climate Week is supported by over 180 organisations that represent a further 850,000 organisations and have 6 million individual members. Please contact us if you would like your organisation to become a supporter. Our supporters are listed below.

Political leaders
The Prime Minister, David Cameron
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg
The First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond
The First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones
The First Minister of Northern Ireland, Peter Robinson
Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness
The Leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband

Eminent individuals
Al Gore, former US Vice President
Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General
Lord Anthony Giddens, sociologist
Lord Nicholas Stern (author of the Stern report)
Sir Paul McCartney
Sir Tom Jones
Gillian Anderson, actress
Sienna Miller, actress
Alesha Dixon, singer
Helen McCrory, actress
Andrea Riseborough, actress
Gary Neville, footballer
Ed Balls, MP
Lily Cole, model
Wayne Hemingway, designer
Raymond Blanc, chef
Katie Melua, singer
Nell McAndrew, model
Emilia Fox, actress
Marcus Brigstocke, comedian
Michael Fish, broadcast meteorologist
Gemma Arterton, actress
Archbishop of Liverpool
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