Events

Old Arts Building

University of Melbourne

Saturday August 2, 11am-5pm

 Registration from 10.30am.

For more info ph Sue Bolton 9639 8622, 0413 377 978

or email sueb@greenleft.org.au.

AGENDA

    * 11am-12.15: Opening plenary: Where are we at? What climate science tells us is necessary to save the planet &amp the governments' responses. 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), Greg Barber (Greens MLC).
    * 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: Adrian Whitehead ( Zero Emissions network), Sue Bolton (Socialist Alliance).
    * 1.30-2.30pm: Lunch
    * 2.30-4pm. Workshops:

• o Working class communities, unions and climate change — a jobs-rich transition to renewable energy. Speakers: Unionists from the Latrobe Valley, Wayne Klempel (AMWU environment committee convenor), Harry Van Moorst (Western Region Environment Centre).
• o How low-income communities — rural and urban, indigenous and non-indigenous — will be doubly impacted by global change. Who should respond, and how? Speakers: Friends of the Earth Climate Justice Collective & others.
• o Technologies to tackle climate change. Speakers: Beyond Zero Emissions.
• o The world food crisis and climate change and the impact of food production on the climate. Speakers: Pat Brewer (Victoria University lecturer & Socialist Alliance), Fran Murrell (Mothers against Genetically Engineered Crops convenor).
• o Production and consumption as a source of global warming: Beyond capitalism and toward an alternative world system. Speakers: Hans Baer & 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: Ellen Roberts (Friends of the Earth), 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.

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; Mothers Against Genetically Engineered Crops (MADGE); Community Radio 3CR.