UPCOMING
EVENTS
The
International Forum on Globalization is pleased to announce
a series of informal briefings followed by open discussions
about the December 2007 UN climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, which launched a two-year
process to negotiate new agreements to address global climate
change. See below for when
and where the first two will be held.
Although most media coverage focused on the summit's lack
of targets and commitments to cut emissions, the Bali Roadmap
also provides a number of important opportunities, as well
as potential threats, that civil society must engage over
the next two-years, concluding with signed deals in Copenhagen
by the end of 2009.
The aim is nothing less than a de-carbonization
of the Hydrocarbon Age within a few decades, so what's
at stake is an historic re-alignment of the global economics
and politics. Because
the Bay Area acts as a leading center of global activity
to address climate change, this is one in a series of policy
briefings the IFG is organizing to better engage the Bay
Area directly in the UN climate process.
WHO
Victor Menotti, IFG
Claire Greensfelder, IFG
Tom Athanasiou, EcoEquity
Bria Morgan, Rainforest Action Network
*Others who were in
Bali are invited to share their experiences, as well an anyone
else interested in the UN climate process.
| WHEN and WHERE |
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February 8,
10am - 12pm
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
344 40th Street
Oakland (BART: MacArthur) |
February 8,
2pm - 4pm
Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine Street, 5th Floor (@Battery St.)
San Francisco (BART: Montgomery) |
SAVE THE
DATE!
IFG, KPFA, Cody's Books, Oakland Institute, Food & Water
Watch Present:
An Evening with Maude Barlowe, IFG Board Member
and author of
Blue Covenant:
The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right
to Water
Introduced by Jerry Mander, Anuradha Mittal & Wenonah
Hunter
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 - 7:30 PM
First Congregational Church - 2345 Channing (@Dana) Berkeley,
California
Click for more details
Read
ottawacitizen.com's article about Maude and the coming
water shortage
RECENT
EVENTS
The International
Forum on Globalization (USA) and the Institute for Public
Policy Research (UK) Present
A Side Event at the UNFCCC
Meeting in Bali, Indonesia
Saturday, December 8th, 3:30
PM - 5:30 PM.
Click
for Flyer
IFG Teach-In:
Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis"
"Climate Change, Peak Oil,
Global Resource
Depletion & Extinction"
(Held September 14-16,
2007,
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
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