[GJM] Climate urgency builds more parliamentary support for Simultaneous Policy

[robert searle]

Simultaneous Policy is very important, and deserves
serious consideration from all, and sundry..hence, my
inclusion of their most recent press release which
also explain SP.

R.Searle.

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> Simultaneous Policy: Rediscovering the Sense of our
> Collective Humanity
> 
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> 
> PRESS RELEASE: 27th September 2007
> 
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> 
> Climate urgency builds parliamentary support for
> Simultaneous Policy
> 
> The Simultaneous Policy (SP), a global grassroots
> campaign aimed at addressing global problems such as
> climate change, unfair trade and global poverty,
> gained further support in Parliament today as Celia
> Barlow, Labour MP for Hove, joined twenty-three
> other MPs from all the main UK political parties who
> have signed a pledge to implement SP alongside other
> governments. "Co-operation between different nations
> is paramount in terms of tackling the world's
> greatest problems such as climate change and
> poverty. Unilateral action, though important, cannot
> solve these international problems," Ms. Barlow
> said.
> 
> The fear of all governments that the unilateral
> implementation of stringent environmental controls
> would increase business costs resulting in a loss of
> investment and jobs is rapidly being recognised as
> the key barrier to solving global warming and other
> global problems. Despite the Stern report which
> urged 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." 
> 
> To eliminate the fear of first-mover disadvantage,
> SP's range of global measures is to be implemented
> simultaneously, only when all or sufficient
> governments have signed up. By posing no-risk to any
> nation's international competitiveness, simultaneous
> action removes excuses for inaction and delay and
> opens the way to far more robust policies being
> adopted than relatively weak agreements such as the
> Kyoto Protocol. Contraction & Convergence, a
> powerful international framework designed to combat
> global warming, is one measure that has been put
> forward for potential inclusion in SP's package of
> global problem-solving measures.
> 
> To secure sufficient international political will
> for the implementation of SP, citizens around the
> world who support it, known as Adopters, tell
> politicians that they will be voting in all future
> national elections for any candidate, within reason,
> who has signed the pledge to implement SP alongside
> other governments, or they encourage their preferred
> party to support SP. In this way, competition
> between candidates is intensified to a point where
> 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. 
> 
> Celia Barlow's pledge to implement SP follows
> vigorous local campaigning by Brighton and Hove's SP
> Adopters Group, chaired by Barnaby Flynn. Local
> Adopter groups meet regularly around the UK and
> recruit new Adopters, so building the pressure on
> politicians to sign the SP Pledge. Caroline Lucas,
> the Green Party MEP who will stand at the next
> election in the neighbouring Brighton Pavilion
> constituency, has already signed the SP Pledge and
> competing candidates from other parties are expected
> to follow. 
> 
> Adopting SP is free. Please go to
> http://www.simpol.org/en/main/Concept.htm#Adopt  For
> further information visit www.simpol.org or contact
> Diana Trimble. For Barnaby Flynn, contact 07799
> 603042.
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