TOM ATHANASIOU
EcoEquity
Emergency Climate Stabilization as a Global Deal
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Saturday Afternoon, September 15. 2007

In the late 1990s, Tom Athanasiou began to focus on the justice aspects of the climate crisis. In 2000, with Paul Baer, he founded EcoEquity, an activist think tank focused on the development and promotion of fair and potentially viable approaches to climate stabilization. He has been extremely active in the global climate justice movement and was one of the organizers of the Climate Action Network’s 2002 Climate Equity Summit in Bali. Also in 2002, with Baer, he co-authored Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming. Since then Tom has co-coordinated the "Greenhouse Development Rights" group, which aims to develop an international climate protection framework designed to clarify the real challenge—holding global warming below a catastrophic level while at the same time preserving the right of all people to more than merely bare-bones “human development.” In his spare time Tom is developing a new book, the working title of which is A New Deal for the Greenhouse Century.