To Paris and Beyond
When: September 28, 2015
The corporate takeover of the UN climate talks and how we build a mass movement for a fossil-free future
Monday 28 September
7.30 – 9.30pm
Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House
EH1 2JL
Speakers:
- Juliette Rousseau, coordinator of the pan-European Coalition Climat 21
- Richard Dixon, director of Friends of the Earth Scotland
- Jane Herbstritt, Global Justice Now
- Chaired by Stop Climate Chaos Scotland
Our world leaders aren’t doing enough to stop climate change. With the power of the fossil fuel lobby influencing decisions, we don’t believe the UN climate talks in Paris will bring any real solutions to the climate crisis. But the Paris talks do give us a chance to strengthen the climate justice movement and showcase real, people-led solutions.
Come and hear from Juliette Rousseau of Coalition Climat 21, a European coalition of more than a hundred organisations and movements set up to strengthen and broaden the climate justice movement, so that it won’t just be the movement of the Paris climate talks, but the movement that will bring about necessary and lasting change. Find out what you can do here in Scotland or in Paris, and discuss how we continue to build the movement after the UN climate talks in Paris conclude.
This is a free event. No booking necessary. Please let us know you are coming by joining the facebook event here
This event, organised by Global Justice Now and Friends of the Earth Scotland (with funding from the European Union) is part of Scotland’s Festival of Climate Action from 26 – 28 September. The festival includes climate campaigning training days across Scotland, a screening of Naomi Klein’s film ‘This Changes Everything’ and a climate rally in Edinburgh. Find out more.
Friends of the Earth Scotland gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from the European Union. The contents of this event and the event materials are the sole responsibility of Friends of the Earth Scotland and cannot be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union. The European Union cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information provided at this event on in the event materials
