IIRE - CLIMATE CHANGE SEMINAR 22 to 26 of February
Progressive movements faced with climate change: the need for an energy revolution and social transformation.
Summary article: Climate Change, Energy Revolution and Social Transformation -
See individual content below.
23-2
9-9.45
10-10.45
Climate change : The social impact and physical restraints of the restabilisation of the climate
Jean Pascal van Ypersele - Professor of climatology & environmental sciences at the "Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve", Belgium
L’injustice fondamentale des changements climatiques
Reference article:
Fact and fiction about climate change
14.30-15.15
The energy system
Jean-Paul Deleage – Physician, editor of Ecologie et politique
15.30-16.15
Challenges of the energy transition
Carine Barbier - Senior Program Officer of Energy and climate change
24-2
9-9.45
The neoliberal response to climate change from Rio to Bali
Daniel Tanuro – agricultural engineer , ecological correspondent of Rood/ La Gauche
Bali: An Initial Balance Sheet
Conférence de Bali sur le climat : premiers jugements à chaud
10-10.45
Defence of the climate and market mechanisms
Jean Marie Harribey – member of the scientific council of Attac-France
11-11.45
Climate change and developing countries, the example of Brazil
Joao Alfredo
16.15-17.00
The trade union movement faced with climate change
Manolo Gari
25-2
9-9.45
Long waves of capital accumulation and defence of the climate
Michel Husson - economist, member of the scientific council of Attac-France
11.20-12.00
The danger of ‘green’ neomalthusianism
Phil Ward
Population Control and Climate Change
Part One: Too Many People?
Population Control and Climate Change
Part Two: The Socialiste Alternative
15.15-16.00
Women and Internationalism to Shut Down Big Oil: Direct Deals and Production-Consumption Strikes in the Democratic Transition to a Post-Oil World
Terisa Turner – Coordinator of the International Oil Working Group and teacher at the University of Guelph, Canada
Commoners Against Climate Change
16.15-17.00
The lessons of campaigns around ‘natural’ disasters
Pierre Rousset – Former director of the International Institute for Research and Education
17.15-18.00
Mobilising for the global climate campaign
Sheila Malone – editor of Ecosocialism or barbarism
26-2
9-9.45
Marxism, energy alternatives and social transformation
Daniel Tanuro - agricultural engineer, ecological correspondent of Rood/ La Gauche
Carbon Trading - an Ecosocialist Critique
10-10.45
A programme for the global climate campaign?
Aldo Macedo – parliamentarian of Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal
14.30-15.15
The worst case scenario and the ecosocialist response
Michael Löwy - research director in sociology at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), France
Ecosocialism, democracy and planification
Manifeste écosocialiste international
15.30-16.15
Ecosocialism, Climate Change, and Global Justice
Joel Kovel - Editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism