[GJM] Cross-party support grows for citizens' global governance campaign

[robert searle]

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> Simultaneous Policy: Rediscovering the Sense of our
> Collective Humanity
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> PRESS RELEASE: 2nd April 2007
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> Cross-party support grows for citizens' global
> governance campaign
> 
> The Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign, aimed at
> addressing global problems such as climate change,
> unfair trade, global poverty and unsustainability,
> gained further support in Parliament today with two
> MPs joining the campaign. Tom Brake, Liberal
> Democrat MP for Carshalton & Wallington, and Martin
> Linton, Labour MP for Battersea, joined twenty-one
> other MPs from all the main UK political parties who
> have signed a pledge to implement SP alongside other
> governments. (See website for full list). 
> 
> To avoid the fear all governments have that the
> unilateral implementation of stringent environmental
> controls would see capital and jobs moving
> elsewhere, the Simultaneous Policy is to be
> implemented simultaneously, only when all or
> sufficient governments have signed up. In this way,
> supporting SP poses no-risk to any nation's
> international competitiveness and is helping to
> build international and cross-party support while
> opening the way to far more robust measures being
> adopted than those presently envisaged under
> agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol. 
> 
> The SP's range of global policies is being designed,
> not by political parties, but by thousands of
> citizens around the world who support SP, known as
> Adopters. To ensure sufficient international support
> for SP, Adopters undertake to vote in their
> respective national elections for any candidate,
> within reason, who has signed the pledge to
> implement SP alongside other governments, or to
> encourage their preferred party to support SP. In
> this way, politicians who fail to support SP risk
> losing their seats to those who do. With more
> parliamentary seats and even entire national
> elections being won or lost on fine margins, only a
> relatively small number of Adopters may be needed to
> make it in the vital interests of the main
> politicians and parties to support SP. 
> 
> The fear of competitive disadvantage is rapidly
> being recognised as the key barrier to solving
> global warming and many other global problems. In
> the wake of the Stern report which urged all
> governments to act decisively to curb carbon
> emissions, the Financial Times (6th Dec. 06) noted
> that ".governments remain reluctant to address this
> threat because any country acting alone to curb its
> greenhouse gas emissions, without similar
> commitments by other governments, risks damaging the
> competitiveness of its industries." As David
> Miliband, UK environment minister, confirmed: "There
> is a collective action problem internationally."
> 
> Recognising the inability of governments to act,
> citizens around the world are adopting SP as a way
> to seize the political initiative and to drive even
> uncooperative governments towards the
> internationally co-operative solution that SP
> provides. Apart from the UK, support for SP extends
> to the EU and Australian parliaments and progress is
> being made in many other countries. SP is also
> supported by the prime minister of East Timor, Dr.
> José Ramos-Horta, by Eva Quistorp, co-founder of the
> German Green Party, and by many ecologists,
> activists and economists.
> 
> Adopting SP is free and can be done online. Please
> go to
>
http://www.simpol.org/dossiers/dossier-UK/html-UK/how_do_i_adopt_sp-UK.html
> 
> For further information visit www.simpol.org (global
> site) and/or www.simpol.org.uk (UK site) or contact
> Diana Trimble on the numbers below.
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> Simpol-UK  27 London Road, Bromley, BR1 1DF, UK
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