Climate Change emergency conference

Climate Emergency conference - Raising Ambition

Saturday 14th September 2019
10am - 5pm
Bloomsbury Central Baptists Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8EP

A one-day conference for those looking to act on the climate emergency.
Come along and find out what your council and community can do, bring along your ideas and learn from others how we can shift to a zero carbon economy and keep fossil fuels in the ground. What scale of change do we need? What would the benefits be for jobs and local economies?

This event is for councillors, council officers, community leaders and campaigners who want to turn a declaration of a climate emergency into plans for change.

Speakers include:
Andrew Simms, (Rapid Transition Alliance) on the Climate Emergency
Paul Allen, (Centre for Alternative Technology) on Zero Carbon Britain
Jonathan Essex and Peter Sims, (Green House) on Climate Jobs
Sam Mason, (PCS Union) and Fatima Ibrahim (IPPR Environmental Justice Commission) on the need for a Just Transition
Yves Marignac, (Association négaWatt) on the Europe-wide transition
Nadine Andrews, (Green House) on Climate psychology & cultural shifts
Simon Pickering (Councillor, Stroud District Council) on reducing in-house emissions
Philip Webber (formerly of Kirklees Council) on street by street retrofit
Ian Christie (University of Surrey) on widening the coalition

Conference fee: £10, including lunch and drinks.

- Draft Programme
10.00 -10.30 - registration
10.30 – Welcome and introductions – Natalie Bennett Green European Foundation, Anne Chapman Green House
                The Climate emergency - Andrew Simms
                Climate Psychology and cultural change – Nadine Andrews
                Questions and discussion
                Introduction to parallel sessions and workshops
11.45-12.00 tea/ coffee break
12-1.00 – parallel sessions – making a plan
- Green New Deal and Just Transition - Fatima Ibrahim and Sam Mason
- Climate Jobs – Jonathan Essex and Peter Sims
- Zero Carbon plans - Paul Allen (Centre for Alternative Technology) and Yves Marignac (negaWatt)
1 – 2.30 – lunch and information/discussion tables on:
                Reuse and recycling
                Sustainable and Active Transport - Stephen Joseph
                Renewable energy - Repowering London
                Food and farming
                Street by street retrofit - Philip Webber (formerly Kirklees council)
2.30 – 3.30 Workshops – Making it happen
                - Reducing In-house emissions - Simon Pickering, Stroud District Council
How to get organisations to achieve a step change in emission reductions.
- Widening the Coalition – Ian Christie, Surrey Climate Commission
Establishing partnerships, setting up a local climate commission and citizens assemblies.
                - TBC
3.15 – 3.45 – tea/coffee break
3.45 – 4.45pm – Making change happen
Feed back from workshops and panel discussion chaired by Natalie Bennett

This conference is organised by the Green European Foundation with the support of Green House Think Tank and the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.