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Equipping individuals: Edinburgh, Annual conference, 6 June 2009

Climate change was a major theme at the UNA-UK's annual conference held this year in Edinburgh. More than 140 people attended the event. Click here for the full conference programme.

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Workshop

Trewin Restorick, Director of Global Action Plan

  • Trewin Restorick, one of Al Gore's UK climate change ambassadors, ran workshops on how individuals can combat climate change in their daily lives. Click here to see the the slide show

Film

Age of Stupid

  • A new climate change film by McLibel director Franny Armstrong was screened. A man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looks at old footage from 2008 and asks: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? Click here to find out more.

Resolutions

  • Delegates debated effective follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol at Copenhagen, the UK's climate change policy, refugee flows resulting from climate change impacts, conflict over resources and new technologies such as a solar power supergrid. Click here to read the resolutions.