Zero Emission Network

time: 6.30pm Wednesday 08 August
venue: Edinburgh Gardens Community Room
Brunswick St, North Fitzroy, Melways Ref 2C 1C
Under the grandstand, enter from Brunswick St (just north of the pedestrian crossing)

The world must rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid dangerous climate change. But how can we do this while also facilitating a fair go for the developing world?

Historically the industrialised nations have benefited from a disproportionate contribution to total atmospheric carbon pollution: three-quarters of all emissions so far. So how can we bring a sense of international equity to the climate change debate? How can a rise in prosperity in the developing world be facilitated while reducing global emissions?

Hear Tom Athanasiou speak on why the real climate change challenge is, as he says, "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'."

Tom Athanasiou is executive director of EcoEquity (http://www.ecoequity.org/), a US-based climate think-tank which works closely with church, aid agencies and environment organisations on greenhouse development rights. He is the author of books and essays on poverty and the environment including 'Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor',' Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming' and the forthcoming 'Justice Within Limits: A New Deal for the Greenhouse Century'.

Organised by Friends of the Earth 9419 8700
cam.walker@foe.org.au www.foe.org.au
in conjunction with Carbon Equity Project www.carbonequity.info