#33 Climate Camp Scotland & Ireland
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Reports from the first Camps for Climate Action in Ireland and Scotland from Molly & Oli.
The Scottish camp supported a local campaign against the expansion of open-cast coal mining in an Area of Great Landscape Value. This landscape-destroying form of mining also seems to be linked high rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cancer amongst local residents. The Scottish government’s enthusiasm for expanding open-cast coal mining is incompatible with its ostensibly world-leading Climate Change Act which commits the country to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 42% and producing 50% of its electricity from renewables by 2020.
The Irish camp focussed on the issue of peat-burning in three power stations. Peat is more carbon-intensive than even coal and the strip-mining of peat bogs is destroying a natural carbon sink as well as impacting on biodiversity. A nine-day Camp ended in actions which shut down two of the power stations and helped to restore the peat bogs.
A list of Climate Camps around the world follows…
Climate Camps Around the World
UK & Ireland
Europe
- Climate Camp Belgium & Holland
- Climate Camp Finland
- Climate Camp France
- Climate Camp Switzerland
- Climate Camp Ukraine
North America
Australasia
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