october, 2019
Event Details
Climate Justice - the world we want and how we get it PURPOSES OF THE EVENT Introduce climate justice to people campaigning on climate change Make participants better equipped
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Event Details
Climate Justice – the world we want and how we get it
PURPOSES OF THE EVENT
Introduce climate justice to people campaigning on climate change
Make participants better equipped – with ideas and skills
Share new thoughts and different perspectives
Questions to be considered:
What kind of system change is needed in order to stop catastrophic climate change?
What kind of movement will be needed to create this?
How do we integrate global climate justice into campaigning in Scotland?
10:30 – 11:30 Panel on the global fight for climate justice
Justin Kendrik XR, Asad Rehman (War on Want), School student
11:40 – 13:00 Workshops: The bigger picture
Including:
1. Decolonising Climate Change – Asad Rehman (War on Want)
2. Global Justice Now – Climate and Trade Deal – facilitated by Liz Murray
Five reasons why trade deals are terrible for the climate
What have trade deals got to do with climate justice? Any lasting and just solution to climate change must lie in changing the economic and political structures that bind us to a high carbon model. Modern, mega trade deals threaten to entrench this model and make it all but impossible to reverse. Come along and hear more from Global Justice Now, one of the organisations that led the successful campaign against the EU-US trade deal TTIP.
3. Just Transition
4. FOE(S) – International movement building and the COP
More details to be added soon
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Climate & Profit – can they co-exist
Introduction by Eileen Cook and then discussion tables and feedback
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16.30 Final plenary section – reflection from panellists and participants
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Epworth Halls, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX
Organizer
Edinburgh World Justice Festival