People's Climate Assembly

The organisers of the People's Climate March Edinburgh are now the People's Climate Group Edinburgh.

People's Climate Group Edinburgh

Climate change is affecting us all. There is impact, today, on our families and friends. Current policy guarantees this will worsen, and that our future is a gamble. Culture, health and wellbeing, safety, survival, human rights, peace, happiness and security, the threads that make up the very fabric of our existence, are under intense pressure. Let us rise to the challenge of confronting climate change. We need to recognise the interconnected and systemic nature of the problem. We need an equally multifaceted response.
 
None of us can hope to attack the daunting issue of ‘climate change’ as a whole, but as community organisations with widely ranging scopes and domains, we can collectively work for local, tangible rewards. With some effort from all of us, and some coordination, we can produce a powerful and diverse movement aligned towards creating a hopeful and prosperous future.
 
During this day-long event you will have the opportunity to explore how climate change affects you and your organisation. We will have mass interpersonal warmups, workshops designed to stimulate interaction between your skills and experiences, workshops focussing on communication, mobilisation, lobbying and more. The day will be facilitated and supported by the coordinators of Edinburgh People’s Climate Group.
 
In the weeks leading up to the event, we will be publishing selections of links to videos and documents to provide a wide base of factual information. We hope to use our time together to its best advantage. Before the main events of the day begin, Jess Pepper, Climate Leader from the Climate Reality Project, will give 50 minute presentation on climate change and how it impacts the planet and civilisation.  This presentation is information intensive and extremely broad in scope. Please come along to hear her speak if you prefer this form of information exchange (included in the ticket price; optional). There will be a separate breakout tea and coffee area for coffee and chatting during this hour.
 
Two Breakout Sessions, Two Questions:
 
1. How is Climate Change affecting you and what are your main concerns?
 
2. How can you and your community take control and have a positive influence on the people and the issues you care about?
 
The plan for the day 
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10 -10.50  All About Climate Change, Jess Pepper, Climate Reality Project
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11.00 - 11.15 Introduction - Ewan Aitken
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11.15 - 11.45 Networking exercise
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11.45 - 12.00 Coffee break
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12.00 - 13.30 Break out sessions: Facilitators to give a 20 mins overview talk about how climate change affects their area of expertise Share your own experiences on how climate change affects what you do How do you perceive the climate campaigns to date Co-Create an action plan - what can we do, what messages could we use?
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1. Health and food - Alistair Wardrope & Zoe Stele (Medsin-<SPAN STYLE="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Global Health, Local Issues)
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2. Peace, war and conflict - Brian Larkin (Peace and Justice Centre) & Pete Cannell (Stop the War)
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3. Environment and wildlife - Gabrielle Flinn (Buglife)
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4. Global justice - Julian Holbrook (Climate Interchange)
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5. Social justice and anti-austerity (Matthew Crighton - Friends of the Earth)
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13.30 - 14.15 Lunch 
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14.15 - 15.45 Breakout workshops
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1. Facilitation of meetings - Shannon Stephens (Tripod)
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2. Lobbying - Gail Wilson (Stop Climate Chaos Scotland)
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3. How to effectively communicate climate science - Dr. Aaron Thierry (University of Edinburgh)
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4. Emotional resilience - Lindsay Alderton (Campaign Against Climate Change)
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5. Media and interview techniques - Connal Hughes (Friends of the Earth)
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15.45 - 16.00 Coffee break
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16.00 - 16.30 Group exercise
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16.30 - 16.45 Summary of the day 
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This December world leaders meet in Paris to discuss a new deal for the planet.  We want to make the voices of Scotland’s communities heard loud and clear, that we demand clear and decisive action to reduce carbon emissions and a move away from the use of fossil fuels. We invite you to be part of this movement.
 
You will leave plugged in, tooled up and inspired - ready to create climate action!

St Thomas Of Aquins Secondary School 

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