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<p>Speakers:</p>
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<li>Md Shamsuddoha (Equity Bangladesh)</li>
<li>Eriel Deranger (Indigenous Environment Network, Canada)</li>
<li>Asad Rehman (Friends of the Earth</li>
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<p>What is climate justice?</p>
<p>The climate crisis has been caused by the rich industrialised countries, but it is the world’s poorer majority who are paying the highest price, as extreme weather events become more common, freshwater glaciers melt, and droughts increase.<br />We believe that rich countries owe a ‘climate debt’ to the global south. Not only do we need to reduce our emissions drastically, but we also need to provide new money so that poor countries can develop in a sustainable way and cope with the climate crisis which is already putting millions of lives at risk. This should not be seen as overseas aid, given out of charity, but compensation for our overuse of the earth’s resources.<br />In the run up to the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, rich countries are trying to bully developing countries into accepting unreasonably large emissions cuts, whilst shirking making the necessary cuts themselves. At the same time, they are seeking to channel climate change funding for poor countries through the World Bank, the largest multilateral lender for fossil fuel projects in the world! What’s more, this will mostly be in the form of loans which will only add to the unjust debts which developing countries owe the rich world.<br />Come and hear our speakers explain why we need a global climate agreement which is both effective and delivers justice for the global south, and how you can make this happen.<br /><br />Climate justice speaker tour<br />Our speaker tour is happening at the following places around the country:<br />Mon 16 November Newcastle University of Newcastle, 6pm<br />Tue 17 November Glasgow Renfield Centre, Bath Street, 7pm<br />Wed 18 November London Khalili Theatre, SOAS, Russell Sq, London, 7pm Thu 19 November Birmingham Avon Room, University of Birmingham, 7pm<br />Fri 20 November Brighton Community Base, Queens Road, 6.30pm<br />Sun 22 November Manchester University of Manchester, 11am</p>
<p><br />Full details can be found at: www.climatejusticenow.org.uk</p>
2009-11-06T12:49:27+00:002009-11-18T19:00:00+00:002966featuredCAN<p>7pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG</p>Climate Justice Speaker Tour2009-11-06T14:09:05+00:00