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:
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
● Katherine Bradstreet, Resistance
● Greg Barber, Greens MLC
12.15-1.30pm: 2nd 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
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
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