Dear all,
The trade union group of the Campaign Against Climate Change together with a number of trade unions and anti-racist organisations is hosting an important conference on February 11th 2017
Climate Refugees, The Climate Crisis & Population Displacement
Building A Trade Union & Civil Society Response
Saturday 11 February 10pm - 5pm
National Union of Teachers (NUT) building
Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1H9
Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1H9
Full information is in the blurb below, and on the leaflet https://1drv.ms/b/s!
We encourage people who would like to attend to register online as soon as possible.
You can do this via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.
Please could you also share and like the event on Facebook to help promote it. https://www.facebook.com/
Martin Empson
Treasurer, Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union group
079 585 35231
In the last six years over 140 million people were forced to move because of climate change disasters: droughts, harvest failures and devastating storms. Our warming planet is driving long-term environmental damage and sudden catastrophes. The UN believes that the number of ‘environmental refugees’ could reach 300 million people by the middle of this century.
“Extreme weather events” are an existential threat: Hurricane Sandy inundating New York City. Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, killing over 6,000 people and destroying millions of jobs. Drought, water scarcity and agricultural crises in Somalia, Darfur, Syria and sub-Saharan Africa. Wildfires raging through Fort McMurray, Canada. And flooded cities in the UK. Climate change is devastating jobs and whole economies, and is a growing concern to trade unions for whom effective responses are now a fundamental issue of economic, employment and income security. Yet ‘environmental refugees’ have no legal status in international law and, as yet, no champions across civil society.
‘Climate Refugees’ - The Climate Crisis and Population Displacement: Building a Trade Union and Civil Society Response is supported by the Campaign Against Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, trade unions and environmental, refugee and human rights campaigns. It will include expert briefings, and new evidence of the impact of climate change on human security. We aim to dispel myths about refugees, debate a possible new UN human rights framework for environmental refugees, and raise demands for stronger government leadership on this fundamental issue.
Register now at: https://www.eventbrite.
With expert briefings, we aim to dispel myths about refugees, work on new Protocol for the international protection of those affected by climate change, raise demands for stronger government leadership, and debate a new campaign Statement.
• Contributions: from Prof Joanna Haigh (Grantham Institute at Imperial College), Asad Rehman (FoE), Clara Paillard (PCS), Amjad Abdulla (Alliance of Small Island States tbc), Dave Green (FBU), Sharan Burrow (ITUC, tbc), Wilf Sullivan (TUC), Zak Cochrane (Stand Up To Racism), NUT, PSI, Zita Holbourne (PCS), Jonathan Neale (Global Climate Jobs), Suzanne Jeffery (Campaign Against Climate Change), and more.
• Four workshops: on unions and campaigns for climate jobs; raising awareness of climate change impacts at national and global level; unions and campaign groups challenging xenophobia and hostility to refugees and migrants; and joint work to draft a new Protocol for the international protection of those affected by climate change.
• Nominations: for the Climate Refugees Organising Group
Supporters so far: Campaign Against Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, FBU, TSSA, CWU, PCS, NUT, Stand Up to Racism and other unions and environmental campaigns.
“Extreme weather events” are an existential threat: Hurricane Sandy inundating New York City. Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, killing over 6,000 people and destroying millions of jobs. Drought, water scarcity and agricultural crises in Somalia, Darfur, Syria and sub-Saharan Africa. Wildfires raging through Fort McMurray, Canada. And flooded cities in the UK. Climate change is devastating jobs and whole economies, and is a growing concern to trade unions for whom effective responses are now a fundamental issue of economic, employment and income security. Yet ‘environmental refugees’ have no legal status in international law and, as yet, no champions across civil society.
‘Climate Refugees’ - The Climate Crisis and Population Displacement: Building a Trade Union and Civil Society Response is supported by the Campaign Against Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, trade unions and environmental, refugee and human rights campaigns. It will include expert briefings, and new evidence of the impact of climate change on human security. We aim to dispel myths about refugees, debate a possible new UN human rights framework for environmental refugees, and raise demands for stronger government leadership on this fundamental issue.
Register now at: https://www.eventbrite.
With expert briefings, we aim to dispel myths about refugees, work on new Protocol for the international protection of those affected by climate change, raise demands for stronger government leadership, and debate a new campaign Statement.
• Contributions: from Prof Joanna Haigh (Grantham Institute at Imperial College), Asad Rehman (FoE), Clara Paillard (PCS), Amjad Abdulla (Alliance of Small Island States tbc), Dave Green (FBU), Sharan Burrow (ITUC, tbc), Wilf Sullivan (TUC), Zak Cochrane (Stand Up To Racism), NUT, PSI, Zita Holbourne (PCS), Jonathan Neale (Global Climate Jobs), Suzanne Jeffery (Campaign Against Climate Change), and more.
• Four workshops: on unions and campaigns for climate jobs; raising awareness of climate change impacts at national and global level; unions and campaign groups challenging xenophobia and hostility to refugees and migrants; and joint work to draft a new Protocol for the international protection of those affected by climate change.
• Nominations: for the Climate Refugees Organising Group
Supporters so far: Campaign Against Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, FBU, TSSA, CWU, PCS, NUT, Stand Up to Racism and other unions and environmental campaigns.
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