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Picture : Exxon Mobil's (Esso) oil refinery at Fawley in Hampshire - the largest in the UK.

OGC works with all generations, including younger people and children,
many of them already active in working for a safer climate and a more sustainable world.

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Standing together on climate change: It's what we do

Left:Together Alliance March in London 28th March. We were there.

The first local meeting of OGC at the Hornsey Town Hall (The Broadway, Crouch End, London N8 9JJ on 2nd May 11am (room 1). We would really love to have anybody interested to join us for Cake and Climate conversations to discuss local climate action plans.

Our NEW Pensions and finance working group) met for the first time on 24th March. We aim for a presence at some of this year's Bank AGMs, and to make links with other organizations involving seniors.

The "alternative COP30" in Colombia (First Conference on Transitioning away from fossil fuels) is getting ready (24-29 April), and so is our rep in Santa Marta. We have registered to attend, and with our local contact (John Stephenson) on the ground, we are joining others in pushing for a better solution for moving away from fossil fuels than those (not) provided at the annual COP meetings. Read this hopeful article. Although our Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is not attending, his climate envoy, Rachel Kyle, is, together with representatives from over fifty other countries, a few of them (Canada, Australia, Norway and Brazil) themselves major oil exporters! Day1 24th April here.

Many of us were recently involved in the annual

Big Plastic count. The results have now been published.

World Water Day (and some dirty water actions - see picture above) took place on 22nd March . Did you watch Channel 4's recent shocking docu-drama Dirty Business on Dirty Water and the Water companies? Ibsen raised the issue more than 140 years ago in An Enemy of the People, recently screened on BBC4.

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