4 December 2006: for immediate release
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will host a public meeting tomorrow,
Tuesday 5th December, from 4-6 pm in the Grand Committee Room of the House
of Commons to address the issue of how removing the threat of nuclear
destruction could fund new ways to tackle climate destruction.
Tomorrow’s meeting comes at a time when members of the cross-party
Environmental Audit Committee have called on Gordon Brown to take drastic
action to help curb greenhouse gas emissions. The government has stated
that climate change is the greatest threat to the planet, yet according
to today’s White Paper it appears set to spend tens of billions
of pounds on replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system.
Speakers at tomorrow’s meeting include:
• Colin Challen MP, Chair of All Party Parliamentary
Group on Climate Change
• Norman Baker MP, former Lib Dem Environment Spokesperson
• Katy Clark MP, member for Ayrshire North and
Arran
• Dr Stuart Parkinson, Director, Scientists for
Global Responsibility and former expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Kate Hudson, Chair of CND
Recently, the Labour Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Climate
Change, Colin Challen MP, said, ‘The cost of Trident is too great
since it doesn’t seem to have a strategic purpose any more. We can’t
fight climate change militarily and it’s the greatest threat we
face. Logically, that means we don’t spend money on Trident but
on mitigation and adaptation measures for climate change.’ (5)
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Notes to Editor:
1. For further information and interviews please contact Rick Wayman,
CND's Press & Communications Officer, on 0207 7002350 or 07968 420859
2. CND’s Alternative White Paper on Trident Replacement is available
online at http://www.cnduk.org/pages/altwhitepaper.pdf
3. An ICM poll from June 2006 showed that 81% of the British public believes
that any decision on Trident replacement should be made by Parliament,
not the Prime Minister alone. Click
here for a full copy of the poll.
4. According to a July 2006 ICM poll, 59% of the British public opposes
a replacement of Trident when presented with a cost of at least £25
billion. Click
here for a full copy of the poll.
5.The Guardian, “Could
Scrapping Trident Save the Planet?”, 04.11.06
6. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is one of Europe’s
biggest single-issue peace campaigns, with over 32,000 members in the
UK. CND campaigns for the abolition of all nuclear weapons everywhere.
www.cnduk.org
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