SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Rio + 20 Alternative Conference at SOAS

Dr. Harald Heubaum and Dr. Dan Plesch, Convenors of SOAS CISD's MSc in Global Energy and Climate Policy, will participate in a 'Rio + 20 Alternative Conference' organised by Campaign against Climate Change and SOAS Development Studies Department. The conference will take place 16-17 June at SOAS, the Institute of Education and University College of London.

The conference is free to attend. Register a place at the conference.

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Rio to Rio: 20 wasted years?

Between 1992 and 2012:

• The global surface temperature has risen by 0.38C
• The Arctic sea ice has decreased by 2.94 million square kilometers
• The CO2 in the atmosphere has risen by 35.19 PPM
• 30 661 900 hectares of Brazilian forest have been lost
• More than431,215.08 million tonnes of CO2 have been emitted
• The amount of CO2 emitted per year has risenfrom 21,421.45 to 30,398.42 million tonnes

30+ workshops and seminars, featuring:

• "Food Security: How can we stop a tragedy unfolding?”
• "Green Energy versus ‘Extreme’ Energy”
• "One Million Climate Jobs"
• "Inequity is not only bad for society but a barrier to dealing effectively with the ecological crisis”
• "Renewing Political Commitment to win the global battle against eco-calamity: a lost cause or is there a way forward?”
• "We will not achieve environmental justice without a fundamental shift in values”
• "New legal frameworks for a new era of environmental progress and justice”
• "Can London lead the way in the fight against climate meltdown?"

Over 65 confirmed speakers, including:

John McDonnell MP (Labour), Jean Lambert MEP (Green Party), Deborah Doane (World Development Movement), Jeremy Leggett (Solar Century), Jenny Jones (Green AM & Mayoral candidate), Aniol Esteban (New Economics Foundation), Derek Wall (Green Party/Green Left), John Stewart (chair Airport Watch, HACAN etc) Stephen Tindale (ex-Director, Greenpeace), Oliver Tickell (author Kyoto 2), Mayer Hillman, Mel Evans (Platform), Prof Peter Mollinga (SOAS), Hannah Smith (COIN & Refugee & Migrant Climate Forum), Keith Taylor MEP (Green Party), Deepak Rughani (Biofuelwatch), Murad Qureshi (GLA & Bangladeshi community), John Lanchberry (RSPB), Rich Hawkins (PIRC), David Powell (Economics Campaigne, Friends of the Earth), George Barda (Occupy LSX), Centre for Alternative Technology, Action Aid, Native Spirit Foundation, UK Tar Sands Network, David Wasdell (Meridian Project), Andrew Lockley & Tim Kruger (on geoengineering), John Maclaverty (GROW Campaign, Oxfam), Suzanne Jeffrey (CCC Trade Union Group), Debi Wagner (US Citizens Aviation Watch via skype), Chris Baugh (assistant General Sec Public & Commercial Services Union), Peter Challenor (National Oceanography Centre), Danny Chivers, Chris Church (Low Carbon Communites), Speaker from the Eradicating Ecocide Campaign, Gerry Wolfe (TREC-power from the deserts), Muzammal Hussain (Wisdom in Nature), Susan Roaf & Fergus Nichol (on built environment), Terry Reintke (co-spokesperson FYEG- Federation Young Euro- Greens), Melanie Strickland (Wild Law, Occupy), Ian Mason (Wild Law), Daniel Scharfe (Greenspeed), Tim Emerson, Christian Ecology Link, Emma Biermann (350.org), Neva Frecheville (WWF), Dan Plesch (Director, Department of International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS), Harald Heubaum (CISD, CEPES, SOAS)… and many more invited.