Reports from Meetings on Crises in Finance and Climate
in Brussels
Meeting
on 11th Nov. - A
Global Contract
Based on Climate Justice, at
the European Parliament. Speakers with big
names such as Stavros Dimas, Lord
Nicholas
Stern, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Radermacher, Faaij, Nakicenovic
and Anders Wijkman were
brought
together by the Tällberg
Foundation, Sweden.
MEP Anders Wijkman gave an
insightful summary of the event, emphasizing that parliamentarians
would have
to improve their own process of governance to meet the current pressing
challenge of the triple crises. A
follow-up
conference is planned for November 2009.
The
“’third industrial revolution’ (of which
John
Schellnhuber of the Potsdam
Institute
for
Climate Impact Research has been
speaking for years),” is discussed further
here
by two leaders from the international development community whom I have
met, Simon Maxwell and Dirk Messner.
Meeting on 12th Nov. - Implications
of the
US
Elections for Foreign Policy, Climate Change and International Security,
at
the European Parliament.
A lot
of hope is being placed in the new Obama
Administration. The representative of the Danish government related how
his
ministers are determined to bring about a successful conclusion of the
negotiations at COP15 in Dec. 2009.
I
missed this event organized by the same group a month
before combining the crises in trade, finance and climate into a "perfect storm".
Meeting on 13th Nov.
-
Consequences
of the
financial crisis: A Greens/EFA conference
One
impressive intervention came from Ann Pettifor,
co-author of the 40-page brochure (I have one) “A
Green New Deal: Joined-up policies to
solve the triple crunch of the
credit crisis, climate change and high oil prices”,
which is described further here,
or can be
downloaded in PDF
Video statements by the
conference speakers are
available here.
Also
present was Daniel Cohn-Bendit who “calls for new
economic and environment basis to tackle the financial crisis. All the
current
crises are linked: social, financial and environmental. Greens
co-president
Cohn-Bendit has called for a New Green Deal to tackle the situation and
transparency of financial transfers to tax havens.” En français, http://www.greens-efa-service.org/medialib/fe/pub/en/dct/261
Analysis by Thomas Ruddy
Link to new book and related blog on Rebuilding Global Trade: Proposals for a Fairer, More Sustainable Future
Update: 2nd April 2009
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back
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member page Thomas Ruddy
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