nuclear-news

Today, seven international clean energy organizations launched a major new campaign aimed at keeping nuclear power out–as in completely out–of all negotiations at the upcoming COP 21 climate talks in Paris in December.

The seven initiating groups are NIRS, WISE, Sortir du Nucleaire, Ecodefense, Global 2000, WECF, and Germany’s Burgerinitiative Umweltschutz. The logos of each adorn the right side of this post.

While the campaign is being launched and coordinated by these seven groups, many, many more groups will be participating by the time we get to Paris, where we’ll be doing what worked so well in New York at last October’s People’s Climate March: building a highly visible Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent for the various rallies and other events taking place during COP 21.

But we’re also planning to be inside the building, as we were in The Hague in 2000, where–with a little unexpected help from Al Gore–we kept…