Climate change policy: additions

The news in the run-up to Copenhagen are not encouraging. However: how could we give up here? And indeed, the spirit of commitment and engagement at this university slowly grows:

After the last lectures the initiative was taken to found a students group in order to improve energy efficiency at the university. They will hold their first official meeting at Thursday, 26th Nov Nov, at 18:00h, room is still to be announced. Please contact Holger Fischer for further information! I think this sort of initiatives is really what we need, so let's give them all support we can share!

The demonstration at Friday was quite a success; there were at least 500 people. Most of them were youths, the ones who start engaging now and might soon be in positions to take responsibility, so its promising if they know already now what to stand for!

Still, to be informed is important. I try my best here to sum up information for you, hoping that some of you can make use of it. Comments would be highly appreciated! :-)

• A really good, very short summery about the state of affairs in pre-Copenhagen negotiations can be found here.
• An elaborate investigation on the perception of climate change in the US can be found here.
• For those of you who have a little bit of time to read: check out the document " Contours of Climate Justice - Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics"

Copenhagen COP 15... let's keep going!

Anouncement: Engagement in politics - how can we be heard?

It's Green-Bug-Lectures-tuesday again!

The topic will be: "Engagement in politics: how can we be heard?"

We will have an Interview with Hannes Rockenbauch, founder of the SÖS (“Stuttgart ecological and social”), member of the municipal council and student. We will talk about his experiences, motivations successes and disappointments in local politics.

As always: there is the chance for discussion, FRESH will provide honest, organic and self-made food, and afterwards you can chillout with a beer served by the ASTA-Kulturgruppe.

Tuesday, November the 24th at 19:00h, at TMS. 

Breakthrough or failure?

A short note on the state of affairs in climate change policy

You can download a handout prepared for the climate change policy lecture here. It summarizes the most important issues and compiles an elaborate list of links for further reading. There is also a short overview on events accompanying the negotiations in Copenhagen provided.

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