Climate Emergency Summit

A Bristol based campaign against climate chaos, affiliated to the Campaign Against Climate Change.

Bristol Climate Summit

Workshops, plenaries and top speakers on how we can fight climate chaos.

Tony Benn House

Timetable: 
1pm-2.10pm: Opening plenary: What’s behind the climate crisis?
• Tarisha Finnegan-Clarke Coordinator of Bristol Airport Action Network (BANN) • Fern Jameson -Green, Climate striker, Youth XR • Professor Richard Betts - Head of Climate Impacts Research at the Met Office Hadley Centre and a Professor in the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter • Suzanne Jeffery- Campaign against Climate Change
 2.25pm- 3.40pm Workshops

1. The global south, climate refugees, and population displacement: Hussein Said, Stand up to Racism • Safia Cissoko, People and Planet Bristol Uni • Otis Bolamu – Congolese refugee who fought deportation and won 
2. Where now for the Green New Deal and the Climate Jobs Campaign? Suzanne Jeffery, Campaign against Climate change • Darran McLaughlin, Green New Deal UK

3. Fighting the Climate Emergency - building the climate strike movement: Nimisha Trivedi, Unison steward and workplace climate change activist • Alfie Warren- KnighT, Film industry assistant and founder of the “Film strike for climate campaign” • Aden Harris, Climate striker and Youth XR • David Ion, Amnesty Bristol Uni

4pm-5pm Final Plenary: Climate rebellion: the fight for justice, jobs and COP26: Gareth Lowe Unite the Union regional officer • Izzy Smitheman, Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate • Lewis Nielsen, Campaign against Climate Change

The failure of the UN COP25 talks in Madrid to deliver environmental action on the scale required is a disaster for millions of people. 2019 has demonstrated how global warming is already leading to more extreme weather - floods, hurricanes and, most obviously, fires. Climate change is not a distant possibility - it is real today.

2019 has seen the emergence of radical new movements around the environment. The inspirational climate strikes, which have brought out millions of students and workers on protests, as well as the Extinction Rebellion actions are part of this. Environmental demands are also part of the global revolts that have spread from South America across the global.

But there is also reaction - climate denial from politicians like Bolsanaro and Trump; and now the re-election of Boris Johnson will make winning the radical action we need harder.

The Campaign Against Climate Change is hosting this Bristol Climate Summit to discuss where we are at. Full details are yet to be organised, but we hope that this event - with plenaries and workshops will allow serious discussion about jobs, climate justice, the Green New Deal and future climate strikes. 

At the end of 2020 Britain will host the UN COP26 summit. This meeting will also begin to look at how we can mobilise in Bristol for those protests.

Doors open 1215pm, with light refreshments. Ticket holders given priority entry.

Tickets £3 Solidarity, £1 waged, Unwaged free.

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