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Debt, Climate and Global Justice
A conference jointly organised by Feasta
and the Debt and Development Coalition Ireland
on the links between climate change, the
debt crisis and global inequity.
Held in association with the New Economics
Foundation, Jubilee Research, the Global
Commons Institute, Friends of the Irish
Environment and GRIAN. the Irish arm of
the Climate Action Network. With contributions
via a live video link from a simultaneous
conference on the same topics in
South Africa.
Wednesday 28th of April 2004 09.00-17.30
€20.00 Concessions available
To be held as part of this year's Convergence
Festival @ CULTIVATE
Sustainable Living Centre,
St Michael and John's,
15 - 19 Essex Street West,
Old City Temple Bar,
Dublin 8
Information on Convergence and online booking
see http://www.sustainable.ie/convergence
For booking call 01 6745773
Cheques made payable to FEASTA and sent
to FEASTA at:
159 Lower Rathmines Road,
Dublin 6
This event is based on the paper titled
Sleepwalking available from:
http://www.feasta.org/events/debtconf/sleepwalking.htm
Programme for the Day
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Registration
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| 09.30-09.45 |
Introduction by David
Healy linking the problems of climate
change, oil depletion, growing inequality
and poor country debt with a dysfunctional
economic system. |
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Climate
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| 09.45-10.00 |
Mark Lynas with the latest
information on the climate problem and
the need to limit the temperature rise
to under 2deg C.
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| 10.00-10.15 |
The likely effects of
climate change in the South, probably
by a South African contributor via video
link
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| 10.15-10.40 |
Review of problems with
the Kyoto Protocol and an outline the
range of possibilites post-Kyoto. Joint
presentation by Pat Finnegan and Ambassador
and Permanent Representative to the
United Nations, His Excellency Mr Enele
S Sopoaga of Tuvalu, one of the Pacific
states threatened by rising sea levels.
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| 10.40-11.00 |
Q&A session with
the audience |
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| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee |
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Debt |
| 11.30-12.30 |
Ann Pettifor. The current
status of the poor country debt negotiations
and the question of environmental debt. |
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| 12.30-13.30 |
Lunch |
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A Just Solution |
| 13.30-14.00 |
Aubrey Meyer. Introducing
the Contraction and Convergence approach
to managing global greenhouse gas emissions.
Aubrey will use computer graphics to
show how different distributions of
emissions rights between North and South
are possible using the C&C approach.
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| 14.00-14.50 |
Richard Douthwaite. Emissions
trading, oil depletion and the need
for a new world currency.
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| 14.50-15.15 |
Question and Answer session
on the need for global money reform. |
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| 15.15-15.30 |
Coffee at three discussion
locations |
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| 15.30-16.30 |
Small groups in discussion
locations talk about and answer list
of prepared questions
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| 16.30-17.30 |
Rapporteurs from each
small group report the answers to the
questions followed by a panel discussion
to reach conclusions from the day. The
South African group will relay their
answers to the questions by the video
link and a South African will take part
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Speaker Profiles
Mark Lynas is an environmental campaigner,
broadcaster and journalist who has worked
on climate change issues for the past four
years. His book High Tide: News from a Warming
World was published at the beginning of
March. He was a co-founder of OneWorld.net
â?" the worldâ?Ts
most-accessed internet portal for human
rights and sustainable development issues.
He was born in Fiji in 1973 and lives in
Oxford.
Ann Pettifor was head of the Jubilee
Research division of the New Economics Foundation
in London until the end the end of March
this year. From now on she will oversee
NEFâ?Ts work on international finance
and debt, while continuing as editor of
the very successful Real World Economic
Outlook. She was born in South Africa. In
1994 she was appointed director of the Debt
Crisis Network, an alliance of British NGOs,
and in 1996, she co-founded the campaign
which was to grow into the international
Jubilee 2000 movement for the cancellation
of the debts of the poorest countries. She
lives in London.
Enele Sopoaga is the ambassador
to the United Nations of Tuvalu, a nation
of 11,000 people living on nine small islands
in the South Pacific and the first country
in the world to have its entire water supply
salinated because of rising sea levels due
to climate change. During his tenure as
Ambassador, he has made the topic of global
warming and its adverse effects on low-lying
regions of the world his top priority. He
is based in New York.
Pat Finnegan is co-ordinator of
GRIAN, the Irish climate NGO that campaigns
nationally and internationally for climate
solutions, concentrating particularly on
long-term sustainability and equity issues.
He has over 25 years of environmental campaigning
behind him, mostly on climate
issues. GRIAN is the Irish member of the
worldwide Climate Action Network. He lives
in Dublin.
David Healy has degrees in law and
environmental science. In his work for Friends
of the Irish Environment he has paid particular
attention to climate change issues, attending
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
conferences and engaging on behalf of FIE
in all the relevant
governmental consultation processes in relation
to climate change policy, carbon taxation
and emissions trading. He lives in Dublin.
Richard Douthwaite is a writer and
economist. His interest in the way different
types of money have different effects on
society, the environment and the economy
led him to develop proposals for an new
international currency, the ebcu, to combat
climate change. He has acted as economic
adviser to the Global Commons Institute
for the past eleven years. He lives in Westport,
Co. Mayo.
Aubrey Meyer was born in England
but grew up in South Africa. He co-founded
the Global Commons Institute in London in1990
and is largely responsible for the development
of the Contraction and Convergence approach
to dealing with greenhouse gas emissions
which has now been backed by a majority
of countries in the world. He lives in London.
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