UNA-UK Climate Change Conference Series 2008-09

Join the UNA-UK at a series of free one-day conference to discuss climate change from an international, national and local perspective.  Help generate a critical mass of support and pressure in the UK for British leadership on the world stage in the fight against climate change.

The first conference will take place on 7 June 2008 in the Banqueting Suite at Birmingham City Council House. This conference will be held during with the Climate Change Festival in Birmingham. The second will be held in Belfast on Thursday, 6 November 2008. Two further events are being planned for the autumn of 2008 and early 2009 – one in Wales and the other in Scotland.

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The conference will consider these questions:
1.        What is the role of the United Nations in finding solutions to climate change and building resilience to its impacts?
2.        Is the UK government doing enough to build a low-carbon economy?
3.        What can individuals do to contribute to solutions?

The conferences will aim to:

• build support among the public and business community for immediate action by the British government to promote the shift to a low-carbon, high-growth economy
• reconfigure climate change so that it is understood as not only an environmental problem but also a threat to security, health and prosperity
• make the case that climate change needs to be understood as both a significant economic threat and an enormous economic opportunity for small- and medium-sized businesses   
• consider ways in which development strategies should be calibrated to encourage low-carbon, high-growth outcomes in developing countries
• highlight the changes needed to strengthen international institutional capacity for addressing climate change.

These one-day conferences are free and open to all, subject to capacity. You can register for the Birmingham and Belfast conferences by clicking here, calling 020 7766 3448, or writing to Climate Change, UNA-UK, 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL. UNA-UK has produced a set of briefings to complement the conference series. These background papers, written by climate change expert Alex Evans, cover these topics:

• Climate change: an introduction
• International climate change architecture
• UK climate change policy
• How climate links to other issues
• What individuals can do

To order hard copies, e-mail climate@una.org.uk, call 020 7766 3448, or write to Climate Change Conference Organiser, UNA-UK, 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL.
For more information on UNA-UK's work on climate change, click here.