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Acknowledgements
Particular thanks are owed to the Perthshire villages of Guidtown and Wolfhill, who hosted the authors’ briefing weekend in May 2012, and who helped to support the book in other ways.
We were joined in Perthshire by a number of experts, including Dr Richard Dixon of WWF Scotland, Rachel Nunn, founder of Going Carbon Neutral Stirling, Clive Bowman from the Alyth Community Carbon Project, Gail Wilson from Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, Aphra Morrison of the CCF, and Mike himself, in his various roles, with advice from many other leading community groups including Comrie and the Isle of Eigg.
Thanks are also due to Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann Ltd and Juliet Mabey at Oneworld.
Stop Climate Chaos Coalition is the UK’s largest group of people dedicated to taking action on climate change and limiting its impact on the world’s poorest communities. Our combined supporter base of more than eleven million people spans over a hundred organizations, from environment and development charities to unions, faith, community, and women’s groups. Together we demand practical action by the UK to keep global warming as far as possible below the 2°c danger threshold.
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland is the largest coalition ever formed in the country, representing all the main faith groups, humanitarian agencies, and environment charities, along with unions, student and community groups and a host of other partners. It was central in lobbying for the Scottish Climate Change Act, the best in the world today (with a forty-two per cent reduction target by 2020), and went on to produce a forty-two per cent proof whisky called ‘twenty, twenty’, which was distributed to the G20 finance ministers, world leaders, and contacts at Copenhagen, Cancun, and Durban, and continues to be used to promote the example that we all hope other countries will adopt. John Swinney MSP, cabinet secretary for infrastructure, said on the day the Climate Change Act was passed:
‘Many of the non-governmental organizations with whom we have been familiar over the ten short years of this parliament have worked together under the Stop Climate Chaos banner to send to parliament and the people of this country a coherent and co-ordinated message that we should consider and, frankly, be inspired by.’