''10x10'' CAMPAIGN OF ENVIRONMENTAL PARLIAMENT.

 TEN BY TEN = 10% emissions of CO2 reduction by end of 2010.

PRESS CONFERENCE AND LAUNCH OF CAMPAIGN IN LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS BY PANO KROKO AND OVER ONE HUNDRED CLIMATE, & EARTH SCIENTISTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS on June 25th @ 3pm.

''TEN X TEN'' CAMPAIGN GOALS :
CO2 emissions reduction by 10% till end of 2010 for the city of London and the UK.  The CO2 challenge is launched for the citizens, the Mayor, the government and the Environment Minister.

More than a hundred climate and environment scientists and ecology organizations came together today to support the Environmental Parliament's launch of the TEN BY TEN campaign.

The Chairman of the Environmental Parliament, Pano Kroko introduced the campaign after a scientific debate of the ways to reduce the CO2 from the city of London emissions by 10%.

''10X10'' cqampaign is a 10% REDUCTION OF CO2 IN LONDON BY end of 2010. The objective is to save a tithe. A saving of CO2 of 10% by end of 2010 is realistic and will help the city meet it's legally binding goals of CO2 reductions of 60% by 2025.

The assembled scientists and environmnetalists agreed that only by using taxation, public policy and resource management, we can meet the 10% reduction  target. This is the only easy method to start on the road to a healthy London ecosystem. Today most of London's electricity comes from coal fired power generating plants. Maybe up to 80% comes this way. One in three children in London suffers from some form of asthma and London has the lowest air quality among European capitals. The first step towards CO2 emission reductions is also the most difficult. However it is rather achievable in the city of London.

Today we've taken the first step as a community. We lay out an informed line of action for the City and the Government to follow. It is a gauntlet to the politicians and the rulers thrown to them by empowered citizens. We begin with the starting point of 10% carbon emissions reduction to be achieved by the end of 2010. Only then the rest of the CO2  targets for London and the UK are meaningful.  During the scientific debate upon further examination was revealed that in order to achieve progressively the 60% savings of CO2 by 2025 as is the London Mayoral environmental pledge and the citizen's promise. The first step to take is to break down the ultimate goal of CO2 emissions reduction in bite size tasks and achievable benchmarks.

Pano Kroko said: ''But still we need to take the first baby step'': ''Ten by Ten'' is reduction of 10% of CO2 emitted in the atmosphere of London by end of 2010. The matrix is as follows for the city of Greater London and the whole of UK.


ALL IN FIVE SIMPLE STEPS :
1) Achieve the simple goal of a 10% reduction in CO2 by the end of 2010. Use the reductions caused by the economic recession as the conduit to achievable targets.

2) Restructure the planning and focus on making the Olympics as a green push in 2012 for a further reduction of 10%, to bring the carbon savings to a total of 20% off the 1990 baseline.

3) Another 10% savings in the next three years will help us reach a 30% reduction in CO2 by 2015 with the green industry and economy coming on it's own.

4) With a robust & changing economy and a growing green industry, we can save an additonal 10% and thus reach 40% reduction in 2018 in the midst of a green industrial revolution in full swing fuelling further, faster reductions in London as well as elsewhere in the UK and the world.
Reach a 50% reduction in CO2 by 2021 cuting off an added 10%.

5) Thus we can reach the legally binding goal of the 60% reductions in CO2 emissions by 2025. This matrix allows us to have a sensible and progressive reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere for the near future while rebuilding and refocusing the economy.
Pano Kroko said: If we approximate the reductions to economic savings and regeneration of the city's economy into Green infrastructure and devise a technologically Green Olympics of 2012, we will succeed to reach the mantle of London being the first city on earth to move in the position of achievable CO2 reductions and environmental leadership. A lofty goal for any administration and Boris Johnson.

Pano Kroko, the chair of the Environmental Parliament said:
Now the many benefits of the CO2 reduction laws and the effects to the markets aren't that obvious and yet they are far reaching. An economic axiom is that higher energy price expectations in the marketplace along with the certainty of the taxing of CO2 emissions will lead to an economic stimulus. It will certainly also lead to a greening of the economy. And that is what Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman agreed with me in our last conversation at LSE this past Thursday.
We can thus focus to achieve the objective a 10% reduction in CO2 emmissions by the end of the year 2010 as that most important first step.

The Ten by Ten campaign started today on June 25th 2009  by the Environmental Parliament at the LSE in London.
We will unveil the specific policy of the Environmental Parliament and announce the methodlogy of achieving this simple goal at www.environmentalparliament.org/10x10

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                 Regards
             Pano   Kroko
          Environmental Parliament
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