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Call to Action: Nonviolent Resistance to Carbon Trading
Next Wave Begins: Confronting The Source of Copenhagen's Failure
Activists call for climate justice outside Carbon Trading Summit, warn that carbon trading will fail to stop climate change
NEW YORK, NY - January 8 - Climate justice activists will converge outside the 2nd
Annual Carbon Trading Summit on January 12-13 to oppose market-based
trading of greenhouse gas emissions credits and call for real solutions
to the climate crisis. Renowned climate scientist James Hansen will
speak at a press event Tuesday just outside the summit to share his
opposition to carbon trading schemes. On Sunday 1/10, a panel of
climate justice experts including Michael Dorsey, who served as
environmental policy advisor for President Obama’s presidential
campaign, will address carbon trading and a briefing report-back on
Copenhagen at an event open to supporters, the press, and the public.
** Presentation by journalist and climate activist Tina Gerhardt: "From COP 15 to Climate Justice Movement"
** Panel discussion "Selling the Sky: Carbon Trading and the Failure of Copenhagen”
Speakers:
Dr. Michael Dorsey, Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth
College; Joan Yang, Deputy Ambassador from Palau (tentative); Cecil
Corbin-Mark, WE ACT for Environmental Justice (WEACT); and Brian Tokar,
Institute for Social Ecology.
When: Sunday, Jan 10, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where: Unity Hall, 235 W 23rd St, between 7th and 8th Ave
** Presentation by journalist and climate activist Tina Gerhardt: "From COP 15 to Climate Justice Movement"
When: Monday, Jan 11, 7 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St (between Houston & Delancey St)
** Press Event with JAMES HANSEN, renowned climate scientist.
Also
featuring Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center; Father Paul Mayer,
Climate Crisis Coalition, representing concerned members of the
interfaith religious community.
When: Tuesday, Jan 12, noon
Where: Irish Hunger Memorial Park, Vesey St, 2 blocks west of West St
** Rally and protest action outside of the 2nd Annual Carbon Trading Summit (Embassy Suites Hotel)
When: Wednesday, Jan 13, noon
Where: Irish Hunger Memorial Park, Vesey St, 2 blocks west of West St
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