Registration from 10.:30am
11:00am-12:15: Opening plenary:Where are we at? What climate science tells us is necessary to save the planet & the governments’ response
Speakers:
●     David Spratt, author of Climate Code Red and founder of Climate Emergency Network
●     Emeretta Cross, from the Tuvalu and Kiribati islander communities in the Pacific
●     Katherine Bradstreet, from Climate Camp and Resistance
12:15-1:30pm: 2nd plenary: Debunking the myths – discussing solutions
Will technical fixes such as carbon capture/clean coal work and can the market deliver real solutions to climate change with mechanisms such as carbon taxes, carbon trading?
Speakers:
●     Hans Baer, Melbourne University lecturer
●     Adrian Whitehead, Zero Emissions network
●     Sue Bolton, Socialist Alliance
1:30-2:30pm: Lunch
2:30-4:00pm Workshops:
·       Working class communities, unions and climate change - a jobs-rich transition to renewable energy. - Unionists from the Latrobe Valley, Wayne Klempel, AMWU environment committee convenor, Harry Van Moorst, Western Region Environment Centre
·       How low-income communities – rural and urban, indigenous and non-indigenous – will be doubly impacted by global change. Who should respond, and how? - Friends of the Earth Climate Justice Collective + others
·       Technologies to tackle climate change -  Beyond Zero Emissions
·       The world food crisis and climate change and the impact of food production on the climate  – Pat Brewer, Victoria University lecturer & Socialist Alliance and Fran Murrell, Mothers against Genetically Engineered Crops convenor
·       Production and Consumption as a source of global warming: Beyond capitalism and toward an alternative world system – Hans Baer and Merrill Singer, co-authors of a new book on global warming
4:15-5:30pm: Closing plenary:Where do we need to go now?
Speakers:
●     Friends of the Earth Climate Justice collective
●     Ben Courtice(initiator of Climate Emergency Rally)
●     Carol Ride, Climate Emergency Network convenor & Darebin Climate Action Now convenor
●      Your Water Your Say
●     Student environment network
Sponsoring organizations: Development Studies Program of the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry (University of Melbourne); Friends of the Earth; Western Region Environment Centre; Socialist Alliance; Your Water Your Say, Resistance
Lunch Available