Rising Tide Australia

CARBON TRADING:
"IT AIN'T ALL THAT"

Public discussion:
Wednesday August 13th
1pm, NUSA building

Featuring:
GEOFF EVANS
Geoff teaches courses in Environmental Ethics and Values, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability here at the University of Newcastle. Geoff is currently working for Greenpeace on a 'Green Jobs and Just Transition to a clean energy future' project. And
ZANE ALCORN
Zane is a climate campaigner with Resistance and the Socialist Alliance and helped draft the Alliance's climate charter in 2007. Zane is running for lord mayor of Newcastle in the upcoming council elections.

With polar ice caps melting at an alarming rate and the Murray Darling is drying up, it is crucial for advanced economies like Australia to get an emergency emissions reduction program underway immediately.Will an emissions trading scheme drive a rapid enough conversion? Early indications a no, especially when coal exports are not included, when big polluters are likely to receive free permits to pollute and none of this will even begin until 2010.

Organised by the Resistance Club
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