CLIMATE JUSTICE SEMINAR

11am-5pm (register from 10.30am)


11am-12.15: Opening plenary: Where are we at? What climate science tells
us is necessary to save the planet & the governments’ response

Speakers:
David Spratt, author of Climate Code Red and founder of Climate Emergency Network
Emeretta Cross, from the Tuvalu and Kiribati islander communities in the
Pacific Katherine Bradstreet, from Climate Camp and Resistance

12.15-1.30pm: 2nd plenary: Debunking the myths – discussing solutions
Will technical fixes such as carbon capture/clean coal work and can the
market deliver real solutions to climate change with mechanisms such as
carbon taxes, carbon trading?

Speakers:
Hans Baer, Melbourne University lecturer
Adrian Whitehead, Zero Emissions network
Sue Bolton, Socialist Alliance

1.30-2.30pm: Lunch

2.30-4pm Workshops:
Working class communities, unions and climate change - a jobs-rich
transition to renewable energy. - Unionists from the Latrobe Valley, Wayne
Klempel, AMWU environment committee convenor, Harry Van Moorst, Western
Region Environment Centre,

How low-income communities – rural and urban, indigenous and non-indigenous – will be doubly impacted by global change. Who should respond, and how? - Friends of the Earth Climate Justice Collective + others

Technologies to tackle climate change - Beyond Zero Emissions

The world food crisis and climate change and the impact of food production
on the climate – Pat Brewer, Victoria University lecturer & Socialist
Alliance and Fran Murrell, Mothers against Genetically Engineered Crops
convenor.

Production and Consumption as a source of global warming: Beyond
capitalism and toward an alternative world system – Hans Baer and Merrill
Singer, co-authors of a new book on global warming

4.15-5.30pm: Closing plenary: Where do we need to go now?

Speakers:
Friends of the Earth Climate Justice collective
Ben Courtice (initiator of Climate Emergency Rally)
Carol Ride, Climate Emergency Network convenor & Darebin Climate Action
Now convenor
Your Water Your Say
Student environment network

Lunch available
Stalls from campaign groups welcome

For information, contact Sue Bolton on 9639-8622 or 0413-377-978 or
sueb@greenleft.org.au


Sponsoring organizations: Development Studies Program of the School of
Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry (University of Melbourne);
Friends of the Earth; Western Region Environment Centre; Socialist
Alliance; Your Water Your Say, Resistance.