Avaaz Members tell Japan to sort it out!

Despite cleaning up with 1st, 2nd and 3rd spots at the Dec. 5th Fossil of the Day Awards, Japan narrowly missed out on the 1st spot again on the 6th! At the day’s sessions, Japan had pushed for two dubious inclusions in the Clean Development Mechanism: CCS and Nuclear power. This very nearly got them top-spot at the CAN daily voting session, they were piped to the post by 2 votes more in favour of Saudi Arabia.

CCS, or Carbon Capture and Storage as it is otherwise known, is a new technology which, at its simplest interpretation, allows large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions (like from a coal power plant) to be captured and stored, usually underground in geological formations. While there is a lot of hope surrounding this new technology, it’s still a long way off from being implemented on anything near the scale required to have a serious mitigation impact.

As for Nuclear power, well it probably needs no introduction—except to say that it’s an extremely dangerous and short-sighted way of seeking to reduce our emissions.

So Japan basically needs a good talking to, and who better to do it than Japanese Avaaz members? This morning, Avaaz sent an alert to members in Japan, asking them to send messages to the Japanese PM urging him to tell the delegates in Bali to sort it out! We should find out how well it’s worked by Japan’s fossil award performance for the remainder of the week.