aCOPalypse Now!

A day of teach-ins and discussion critiquing COP 15 and carbon trading.

Carry on polluting – a beginner’s guide to the farce of carbon trading
Oscar Reyes – Carbon Trade Watch
11.30am - 12.30pm
The UK is at the heart of the global trade in carbon – but is this a system that is aimed at dealing with the threat of climate change, or allowing carbon-intensive companies to carry on polluting? Oscar Reyes of Carbon Trade Watch looks at the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and what it all means.

Carbon trading – who profits and who pays?
Larry Lohmann – The Corner House
12.30pm - 1.30pm
We are told that carbon trading is ‘the most cost effective way of dealing with climate change.’ In this talk, Larry Lohmann (Editor of ‘Carbon trading – a critical conversation on climate change, privatisation and power’) looks at who stands to gain by this ‘cost effectiveness’ and how it is often communities in the Global South that end up paying.

The Copenhagen climate talks – where did it all go wrong?Jutta Kill - FERN
2.30pm - 3.30pm
We are hearing all the time that there need’s to be ‘a good deal’ at the UN climate talks in December. Jutta Kill of FERN outlines why we should prepare ourselves for the worst, and why we can’t afford to pin all our hopes on this particular process.

Ten ways the EU is failing on climate change... and many more alternatives
Oscar Reyes – Carbon Trade Watch
3.30pm - 4.30pm The European Union routinely claims ‘leadership’ on climate change. But in creating the world´s largest carbon market, promoting agrofuels and Carbon Capture and Storage as solutions, it is failing to offer environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives for tackling the climate crisis. This workshop will look at how the EU´s carbon market is failing, show how EU negotiators are contributing to a bad deal in Copenhagen, and highlight how the EU subsidises some of the dirtiest industries in the name of ‘clean’ technology. It will then look at the alternatives needed to promote climate justice in the EU and beyond.

Introducing ‘Operation Bike Block - Putting the fun between our legs’
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
5pm – 6pm
You've heard why COP is a problem. Come to a presentation on forms of creative resistance and the potential of bicycles. An opportunity to hear how you can take part in the Lab of ii'’s latest designing and plotting a rebel swarm of bicycles in the coming weeks, with plans for Copenhagen.

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