Despite worsening news about climate change little is being done. As the world warms, and millions of people’s lives are threatened, politicians continue to prevaricate. Britain’s Tory government is more interested in helping its friends in the fracking industry, undermining renewable energy policy, promoting airport and road expansion and cutting budgets for home insulation schemes then action on climate.
In December, world leaders will meet in Paris to discuss international action on climate. As they meet mass protests and direct action will take place in cities across the world, culminating in an international event in Paris itself.
This Manchester conference will examine climate politics in the run up to Paris. We’ll discuss how climate change will impact upon people through inequality, refugees and racism. We will look at what can be done, and the alternatives to austerity and climate chaos such as One Million Climate Jobs. Groups involved include trade unionists, Oxfam, Friends of the Earth and other local groups. We want a bigger, stronger and more united environmental movement.
Come and join this discussion, which takes place after the People’s Assembly’s week of Action against the Tory Party conference in Manchester.
Speakers /Workshop facilitators include:
- Kate Pickett, author The Spirit Level
- Julie Ward MEP
- Andy Rowell ,Spinwatch
- Anindya Bhattacharya, Defend the Right to Protest
- Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth
- Bryn Kewley, E3G
- Chris Baugh, deputy general secretary PCS
- George Marshall, COIN
- James MacColl, Campaign for Better Transport
- John Hilary, War on Want
- Manuel Cortes, general secretary TSSA
- Martin Empson, Campaign Against Climate Change
- Martin Porter, Greenpeace
- Nick Dearden, Global Justice Now
- Rachel Thompson, Reclaim the Power
Workshops & Plenaries include:
- Migration, Racism & Inequality
- Why Don’t they Act?
- Energy Policies and Alternatives
- Global Trade, TTIP and economic systems
- Finance and Divestment Campaigns
- Transport Policies and Alternatives
Time to Act 