Climate Justice Seminar

Date: Saturday 2 August

Time: 10.45am-5pm (register from 10.30am )

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne (See map attached)

Lunch available

Stalls from campaign groups welcome

Agenda:

10.45am: Introduction: Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth

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

● Kileta Avene, elder from Tuvalu Island in the Pacific

● Katherine Bradstreet, Resistance

● Greg Barber, Greens MLC

12.15-1.30pm: 2^nd plenary: Debunking the myths – discussing solutions

Can the market deliver real solutions to climate change with mechanisms such as carbon taxes, carbon trading?

Speakers:

● Torry Kuswardono, WAHLI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia

● 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. - Greg Warren, AMWU organiser, Wayne Klempel, AMWU environment committee convenor, Harry Van Moorst, Western Region Environment Centre, Dave Kerin, Union Solidarity

· 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 and Barmah Millewah Collective

· Technologies to tackle climate change - Mark Ogge, 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 book on the relationship between global warming and human health

· Climate refugees: A case for justice - Alex Bhathal & Georgia McRae, Pacific Blackbox

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 Rall & Socialist Alliance

● Carol Ride, Climate Emergency Network convenor & Darebin Climate Action Now convenor

● Chris Heisslers, Your Water Your Say

● Sam Cossar-Gilbert, Australian 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.

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Flyers for Seminar

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