Climate Change |Social Change

A conference to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change

To strengthen the exchange of ideas and contribute towards that urgent action Green Left Weekly organised the Climate Change | Social Change conference from April 11-13, 2008, in Sydney.

Videos from the conference

Sam Watson and Pat Eatock

John Bellamy Foster

Video: John Rice

Video: Conference Venezuela solidarity action

Speakers included:

• John Bellamy Foster — author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature; editor of Monthly Review.
• Patrick Bond — director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; editor of Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society.
• Roberto Perez — Cuban permaculturalist (featured in The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil).

Speakers from Australia included:

• Matt Thistlethwaite — Unions NSW deputy assistant secretary
• Cam Walker — Friends of the Earth, Melbourne
• Sam Watson — Biri Gubba, Munnejarl man from the Brisbane Murri community
• John Kaye — Greens NSW MLC
• Dr Jim Green — Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear campaigner
• Stephanie Long — Friends of the Earth Australia's international climate justice spokesperson; works on FoE International's climate change campaign
• Genevieve Kelly — former Sutherland Shire councillor, Lucas Heights activist and now senior lecturer in School of Social Studies, University of Western Sydney
• Dr Mark Diesendorf — Institute of Environmental Studies, University of NSW
• Tim Anderson — senior lecturer political economy, Sydney University
• David Spratt — co-editor, Climate Code Red
• Marlene Obeid — solidarity activist
• Dr Kamala Emanuel — Socialist Alliance
• Wenny Theresia — Australian Student Environment Network
• Lauren Carroll Harris — Resistance
• Dick Nichols — author of Environment, Capitalism and Socialism
• Renfrey Clarke — Green Left Weekly environment correspondent
• John Rice — Adelaide Ecosocialist Network
• Adrian Whitehead — Zero Emissions Network
• Pat Eatock — elder from the Kairie community in central Queensland and secretary of the National Aboriginal Alliance
• Stuart Rosewarne — co-editor of Journal of Australian Political Economy and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
• James Goodman — researcher on social movements at the University of Technology Sydney writer on Southern responses to global warming

Latest news & background

• Socialist Alliance: 'Let's get serious about the climate change crisis!'
• Labor: Garnaut climate report just 'early thinking'
• The new climate science: Governments gamble with our survival
• New report warns of runaway climate change
• Cuban permaculturalist to tour Australia
• Climate change | Social change conference

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Click here to download a copy of the agenda outline (PDF).

Registration:

Email climateconf@greenleft.org.au or phone 1800 634 206 (toll-free within Australia) or +61 2 9690 1220. Click here to view rego costs. Click here to download a registration form (PDF). Registration will remain open throughout the conference.
(Pre-registration not required to attend conference, but it helps with the overall organisation.)

Child care:

Child care will be available on Saturday April 12 and Sunday April 13 during conference session times. To allow us to have sufficient staff, please let us know by March 28 if you will require child care.

Cheap accomodation

Click here to download a list of cheap accomodation options near the conference venue.

John Bellamy Foster

Patrick Bond

Roberto Perez