Countdown to Copenhagen
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.
For more on sustainability see also:
Screening: the Age of Stupid
Having Your Coke and Drinking It Too; Carbon Capture and Sequestration
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This is the issue of our time. I will attend.
Thanks Ann Marie – see you there.
Hi everyone.
Please join us on November 19 for Nikhil Chandavarkar’s lecture on Countdown to Copenhagen. Anne Marie is so right. … Copenhagen is about THE issue of our time.
Sustainability and climate change is testing our ability to think and act with generosity and good will. It touches everyone and all dimensions of our own character….moral, political, economic and physical. We need to ask ourselves where do we stand? Are we to remain part of a large invisible group hardly aware a problem exists? Do we agree with a noisy minority who say climate change is a hoax? Or have we made the effort to understand what the scientists have been saying for several years that Business as Usual (BAU) is not an option. We must change our behavior as consumers.
We need world leaders to agree to large, measurable and verifiable targets to reduce carbon emissions over the next 20 years.
We need the US and China who account for nearly half annual CO2 emissions to collaborate and act now to transform their economies to clean electric power, clean transportation and clean production.
We need to speak out as part of a growing global network of Green Crusaders from London and New York to Beijing and other mega-cities. We must insist on changes to prevent our lungs, our streets, our rivers, our oceans and our skies being poisoned by the greed and stupidity of a few. Make your voice heard and challenge the status quo.
Can we afford for the world’s natural resources to suffer the same fate as our financial system, i.e. for us to ignore the obvious threats and wait for the (eco)system to collapse before we act? Obviously not, but that is – unfortuantely – where we are directly headed unless we act, so I look forward to attending. PS as with the banks, my position is that a lack of regulation and oversight are endemic in the way we treat natural resources thus action on this front is the priority – only a global, binding treaty can prevail.
Look forward to seeing you at the event Christopher
Janera Soerel is organizing a Climate Change debate on November 23rd in New York at Norwood Club from 6 – 9pm.
Two expert teams on opposite sides will debate the issue.
The Alarmists:
- Ralph Cavanagh, Senior Attorney and Co-Director, Energy Program, NRDC
- Eric Roston, Author and Senior Associate, The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
The Deniers:
- Steve Hayward, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- Teammate tbd
Moderator:
Dennis Kneale, Anchor, CNBC’s Power Lunch
Details:
6PM cocktails
7PM Debate and Q&A
Norwood Club, 241 W 14th St, New York
Tickets—only available in advance—are $45.
More details here http://janera.com/?p=363
Janera – thanks for letting us know about this outstanding event. Will we see you at Countdown to Copenhagen?
Please can you reserve a place for myself and my colleague Simon Kristak
I also think we should acknowledge the necessity for preparedness for the repercussions of global warming.
http://www.jameslovelock.org/
Thanks Duncan – look forward to seeing you and Simon on the day.
With Copenhagen right around the corner, addressing this important issue now is crucial. I look forward to discussing how we can all take action.
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