Fossil fuels: The blessing that became a curse Get the Facts Right! Ojos de Brujos Conversations with the Earth Towards a peoples tribunal Claiming Rights for Climate Refugees Climate Justice False solutions Food sovereignty Rethink the future 10.000 trees Green jobs A sea change Naomi klein Vandana Shiva

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02 Klimaforum09 – Peoples' Climate Summit 03 Klimaforum09 – A possibility for all 04 Programme for Klimaforum09 04 Special events on Klimaforum09

05 Daily activities on Klimaforum09

06 klimaforum09 – events in the city

07 Klimaforum09 Calendar 47 Practical information 48 Map of venues and surroundings

Klimaforum09 – The Peoples' Climate Summit – the global civil society’s counterpart to the official UN conference COP15

Klimaforum09 is an open space where people, Oceania and the arctic region who already live movements, and organisations from all over and suffer with the reality of climate change. the World can meet, discuss and develop a constructive response to the climate crisis. The Declaration: Make your voice heard Where politicians fail the people must take over. One of the central outcomes of Klimaforum09 will be a global climate declaration expressing hopes, A broad coalition of Danish and international ideas, and visions of citizens groups and social environmental movements and civil society movements from all over the World. organizations have organized this twelve days The declaration process has for the last six months forum. It takes place in DGI-byen, a large sports taken place in an open debate forum. The idea venue in the centre of Copenhagen just fifty is to finalize the draft during the first four days metres from the central train station. of Klimaforum09, thus giving everybody the possibility to influence the process. Understanding the climate crisis and identifying solutions that accommodate all people are core When finished, the declaration will be handed over to elements of the forum. the political leaders at the COP15. It will be a call for how a fair and just climate deal can be put together. Klimaforum09 is free and open for all and does However primarily the purpose of the declaration is not require any in advance registration. to become a cornerstone in the foundation of a global Special effort has been made to invite people climate movement beyond Copenhagen working from regions in Asia, Africa, Latin America, actively for a sustainable future.

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2 Klimaforum09 EDITORIAL Klimaforum09 – A possibility for all Welcome to the Klimaforum09 – the Peoples' Summit

The absence of progress and political will urge workers, affected people, artists, and scientists citizens everywhere to mobilize in large num- will educate, inspire, and give their perspec- bers. We can no longer wait for politicians to tive on the climate crises, its consequences and finish their never-ending negotiations where solutions. false solutions, based on economic growth for the rich, continue to be the pivotal point. Klimaforum09 will debate the central issues of the COP15, and seek to explain the develop- As we gather we identify and debate true ments as well as share alternatives. Continu- sustainable and socially just solutions to climate ously, we will seek to ask questions, which are change. In the centre of Copenhagen Klima- relevant to all people. forum09 will present a diversity of climate related activities with 190 inspiring talks and An important aspect of a gathering such as 50 exhibitions - along with different perform- Klimaforum09 is movement building for the ances - music, theatre, and film - representing future. Together, we can build a global climate the whole World. movement.

At Klimaforum09 people will let their voices be Welcome to a possibility for all Climate Justice heard, ask essential questions, exchange expe- – climate justice now! - the Voice of the South Photo: Rosalía Soley riences, and find common ground. Indigenous © Fotogracción UNES people, grass-root activists, farmers, fisherfolks, The Klimaforum09 Board

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Klimaforum09 3 Programme for Klimaforum09

Klimaforum09 is buzzing with exciting and inspiring activities and cultural events coming from all over the world. Explore this programme and find new sounds, thoughts, friends, movements, and much more.

Special events on Klimaforum09

The opening of Klimaforum09 is celebrated De- only green energy and presenting dj’s and live cember 7th with an opening ceremony including bands. Come and dance! both speeches and several new musical exprien- ces: a spectacular ice concert, the world wide Klimaforum09 closes in style December 18th. Bimbache openART project. with live klezmer music and a huge bateria pre- senting 50 drummers who plays sweaty samba- On December 11th Klimaforum09 proudly presents rhytms for their dancers and for us. our main musical event: Ojos de Brujo, an enticing mix of free style flamenco and hip hop. Don’t miss the latest updates of the programme at www.klimaforum09.org where you’ll also And the 12th of December Roskilde OrangeCamp find more information about the events. throws a huge party for Klimaforum09 using

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4 Klimaforum09 Claiming Rights for Climate Refugees Photo © Din M. Shibly cortesy by EquityBD

Daily activities on Klimaforum09

Klimaforum09 Morning Plenary and visiting the Meshwork (Purple Room), you 10.00-11.00 can make yourself and your work more visible Every morning in the Orange Hall Safania to the rest of the world so others can see which Eriksen and HansHenrik Samuelsen from the piece of the puzzle you have, and vice-versa. Klimaforum09 Secretariat inform about the day Weaving the world into coherent action. ahead, and provide updates to the programme www.klimaforum09.org/meshwork incl. special features. General questions are welcome. Open morning meditations 8.00-9.15 Briefings (morning and evening) Meditation and reflection will take place every 11.00-12.00 and 19.00-20.00 (appr.) morning at 8.00-9.15 from Dec. 8th to Dec. 18th On a daily basis an international team will follow, (incl.) in the Yellow Room. explain, and discuss developments at the COP15 negotiations. The briefings are open for questions. Each morning session will be lead by a different Klimaforum09 delegate or guest. 2020 Climate Solutions Meshwork There will be 30-45 mins. of quiet meditation The 2020 Climate Solutions Meshwork is an on- followed by a discussion/reflection on the role line platform and face-to-face experience. The of spirituality in times of transition and change. Meshwork helps to create greater coherence and focus amongst the many activities going on for a See the list of meditation leaders on more sustainable world. By joining the platform www.klimaforum09.org

Klimaforum09 5 Klimaforum09 – events in the city Klimaforum09 moves out into the city – join in!

1 March on Saturday around less traditional sights – 5 Exhibition: The federation December 12th for an example locally on Vester- of non-profit housing The Copenhagen Flood: bro. associations in Denmark Friends of the Earth International – Copenhagen Climate tour: tour Exhibition about climate projects is organising a Flood for Climate with focus on climate and Co- in housing areas in Denmark Justice. penhagen as a sustainable city. Location: Copenhagen V, Time: 10:00 26 Halmtorvet th Location: Klimaforum09 Dec. 7-18 Web: www.copenhagenflood.org 4 3 tours with the federa- Time: 10.00–18.00 tion of non-profit housing associations in Denmark 2 Global Day of Action Free bus from Klimaforum09’s 6 ALBA – a solidaric and A broad based, popular and fa- main entrance. Booking at the sustainable alternative mily friendly demonstration from exhibition in the Purple Hall. Open meeting th central Copenhagen to the summit December 17 venue at the Bella Center. Tour 1 Time: 16.00-20.00 Time: 13:00 - 18:00 Excursion by bus to KAB Avedøre Venue: Valbyhallen, Location: Stationsby, Solar project and to Julius Andersens Vej 3, Christiansborg Slots-plads AAB Vejleåparken Ishøj, Climate Copenhagen SV / Parliament Square,Copenhagen project (tower blocks). Tickets at: www.billetten.dk or th Web: www.12dec09.dk Dec. 7, 11, 14 and 17 telephone 7020 2096/3315 1012 Time: 14 - 16 Price: DKK 100 + fee Tour 2 3 Welcome to Copenhagen! Excursion by bus to BO VEST Students from the local high Albertslund Syd, Low-energy school interested in global agen- project and to BO VEST Hylde- das would like to show you their spjældet, 0-energy project view on their city and culture. (terraced houses). th The tours will depart from Klima- Dec. 8, 12, 15 and 18 forum09, December 7th Time: 14 - 16 Time: at 12 pm Tour 3 (duration: two hours). Excursion by bus to “3B Urban Planen, Low-energy project” and to “Lejerbo Gyldenrisparken, Examples – Copenhagen Classic: 0-energy children’s nursery” traditional tour around some of (tower block area). th Copenhagen’s most well-known Dec. 10, 13 and 16 sights. Focus on culture/history Time: 14-16 – Copenhagen with a twist: tour

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18:00-24:00 › 07/12/09 Orange hall Klimaforum09 opening: Remarks from the grassroots and live entertainment: Guest speakers Naomi Klein, Nnimmo Bassey (Friends of the Earth International Chair), Henry Saragih (General Coordinator for La Via Campesina) and others...

Lisbeth Diers & Chime Transform Bimbache openART project Description: At the opening of KlimaForum09 the Danish World class world music with a ”green groove” from the percussionist and composer Lisbeth Diers will perform an Unesco endorsed island ”El Hierro”. This 7 piece international extraordinary concert with her orchestra “Chime Transform”. orchestra mixes funky New Yorker beats, and jazz with folk- Diers will perform on instruments made of ice built by the lore from the Canary Islands. Music for the body as well as the Swedish Ice Sculptress Tjåsa Gussfors. mind, communicating over any cultural borderline. Welcome to the “El Hierro Beat” !

Moderator Sebastian Dorset

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10:00-12:00 Brown room Talk Amazon Forest Destruction and Climate Change Speakers: Marly Winckler Organisation: Brazilian Vegetarian Society - SVB 80% of the Amazon Forest is destroyed by cattle rearing and soy production. Some 247 million acres are burnt every year and the resulting emissions in this region are larger than all emissions coming from big cities and transportation. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions the issue of meat consumption must be addressed.

10:00-12:00 Red room Talk Wastepickers: Organizing against climate change and poverty through recycling Speakers: Neil Tangri, Nohra Padilla, Baby Moite, Kagad Kach Patra and others Organisation: Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance, Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat, Movimento Nacional dos Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis Wastepickers organize globally! The infor- mal sector collects much of the developing world’s trash and reduces GHG emissions by recycling it. This provides employment to millions and reduces society’s demand for energy and raw materials. With appropriate Yellow Dirt: Dilemmas and High Heels - Organisation: Adhoc Design - Photo/Artist: Sonya Gardner support, wastepickers could do more; but instead subsidies flow to waste management companies which promote false climate so- situation and to improve local circumstances, to Copenhagen, providing practical dem- lutions such as incinerators, landfill gas and two types of action are required; a general onstrations of zero carbon travel (cycling the privatization of municipal waste services. activist one to get political, and strategic ac- and sailing); entertainment (acoustic, solar Languages: EN, DA ceptance of our claims and a grass roots one powered and bicycle powered concerts); and to get the projects developed, implemented work (international telephone conference); and running. discussion of how we achieve a zero carbon 10:00-12:00 world. Blue hall Talk 10:00-12:00 From Activist to Grassroots Yellow room 10:00-12:00 Green hall Speakers: Tony Andersen Talk Organisation: permaculture international A Zero Carbon World: As fast as we can Declaration In questions of environment and ecology the Speakers: Chris Keene Opening session: Declaration plenary. Presentation of the second draft and geographical situation is critical. Analysis of Organisation: The zero carbon caravan degradation, the potential of sustainabil- presentation of the working process of ity, including human resources and cultural The reasons we need a zero carbon world; the following days the precedents for rapid change in society traditions are vital. In our fight to control the Organisation: Declaration group (wars); description of my journey from Wales

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12:00-16:00 patterns are the most critical contributor to- 15:15-18:15 Brown room wards climate change. While Climate Change Red room is said to be the greatest challenge facing Declaration Talk humans, we continue to live in world where Declaration workshops in the 9 half of the population are under poverty. The Women’s Perspective on Nuclear Energy theme groups - open to all Climate Sustainability PLATFORM will con- Speakers: Helen Caldicott, Edel Havin Beukes, Organisation: Declaration group duct a dialogue to discuss the evolving of a Eva Fidjestøl ‘Global Framework on Sustainable Consump- Organisation: Kvindernes Internationale Liga for Fred og Frihed, WILPF, Womens International League for Peace and tion and Production’ and its role in a climate Freedom 13:00-15:00 change agenda. Orange hall The workshop will amongst others discuss the connection between nuclear energy and Talk 13:00-16:00 nuclear weapons production and its impact Putting Justice into the Climate Debate on women, the nuclear energy and climate Green hall Speakers: Joannan Cabello, Tamra Gilbertson, change, the demand for scarce resources Oscar Reyes and Kevin Smith Talk such as water by the nuclear industry, the Organisation: Transnational Institute, Carbon Trade Watch Climate, Trade and Development true financial and economic costs of nuclear From a Gender Perspective This workshop will decode and explore ‘Cli- energy production and the emission of mate Justice’ as a concept through the use Speakers: Mariama Williams, Norma Maldonado, greenhouse gases such as CO2. of popular education tools to ensure maxi- Graciela Rodriguez and Hilda Salazar mum participation. The aim will be to gain a Organisation: International Gender and Trade Network greater understanding of where the concept International trade agreements have been 16:00-18:45 of climate justice comes from historically instrumental in designing the current model Brown room and highlight the importance of grassroots- of global development based on use of natu- Talk based struggles related to environmental ral resources and cheap labor. The situation Climate Change and Democracy and social change. of women – as result of this – shows clear Speakers: Sif Brunemark and Jakob Villadsen evidence of the negative impacts on them Organisation: Team Ycity as workers and their roles in social repro- 13:00-15:00 duction. We debate these aspects in this Do we have to change our democracy in or- Red room workshop on development alternatives that der to take care of the climate challenge? include the empowerment of women. That is the main question of this workshop. Talk Languages: EN, ES. After a process with story sharing about 1/2: Tackling Capitalism and taking action, a presentation of local youth the Climate Crisis actions in a global perspective and dialogue Speakers: To be announced 15:00-18:00 about approaches to take political action, we Organisation: Uk Climate Camp Orange hall will develop proposals to create a future de- mocracy in light of climate change. These workshops will consider how we can Talk identify and tackle the root causes of climate Global Leadership from Civil Society NOW change which are inherent in the social rela- tions of capitalism. These open discussions Speakers: Anja Kosha Jaubert, Hanne Marstrand 16:15-18:15 Strong, Maurice Strong, Jim Garrison, Ross Jackson, will cover; Capitalist accumulation as the Brown room Vinya Ariyaratne, Tony Andersen / Mathilde main cause of climate change; The intersec- Kaalund-Jørgensen Talk tion of the economic, energy and climate cri- Organisation: Klimaforum09 Popular Movement Cooperation sis; Social movements and radical responses against Repression: Part 1 to the catastrophe; Social justice issues re- We have come to Copenhagen knowing that lated to the climate crisis; Climate justice and the political negotiations among the gov- Speakers: Tord Björk, Luiz Henrique and others the future of anti-capitalism. ernments will be difficult and that a climate Organisation: MJV/Friends of the Earth Sweden, Klimakollek- change agreement may not be reached dur- tivet/Climate Collective Denmark, MST stödgrupp/Support ing this conference. The final treaty that group, Föreningen/Association Aktivism.info 13:00-16:00 emerges is likely to fall far short of the ac- How can popular movements cooperate against repression of summit protests and in Blue hall tions needed to halt or slow the effects for climate change. Thus the responsibility for general? Beginning with repression and the Talk shaping our response to climate change, for new law package against climate summit pro- Sustainable Consumption and creating a more sustainable world commu- testers also the experience of other summit Production Framework nity, will fall to civil society. protests as in Gothenburg and Genova 2001 Speakers: Uchita de Zoysa, Dr. Victoria W. Thoresen, is addressed. Different forms of repression Mr. JefferyB arber, Mr. Bas de Leeuw, Mr. Felix Dodds, against Via Campesina in Brazil complements Ms. Indrani Thuraisingham the picture of world wide growing criminali- Organisation: Climate Sustainability PLATFORM sation of social movements. The aim is to Unsustainable consumption and production strengthen solidarity against repression.

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16:15-18:15 of the traditional populations from three dif- 21:00-22:00 Blue hall ferent Brazilian biomes - Amazonia, the Cer- Red room rado/Pantanal and the Mata Atlantica. All of Talk Film these groups and environments have been Gender: Climate Change and International affected by the impacts of monocultural ag- The Story of Cap and Trade Climate Negotiations in action ricultural practices and global warming. Organisation: Sustainable Energy & Economy Network Speakers: To be announced Institute for Policy Studies Organisation: GenderCC - Women for Climate Justice With urgent honesty and flash animation GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice will 20:00-22:00 graphics - making it very clear who wins and provide a briefing on the linkages between Orange hall who loses - The Story of Climate Solutions gender and climate change, activities and points to the ‘devils in the details’ such as Theatre free permits to big polluters, fake carbon off- involvement of women and gender groups Anne Marie Helger Show in the negotiations, and their positions and sets and, most importantly, distraction from Organisation: Anne Marie Helger demands. We will together with the par- the significant tasks at hand in tackling the ticipants explore how we can communicate The political climate in everyday Denmark climate crisis. these issues to a broader audience, e.g. in the is below zero temperatures. It is whistling form of street theatre. cold at the top, spreading downwards, run- ning our hearts cold. Foreigners seeking help 22:00-24:00 are left with cold wastewater. In return the Orange hall 16:15-18:15 weather is getting warmer. Climate change Music Green hall threatens our little, vulnerable, golf ball - Satya Amrit - Peace to All Mother Earth. The actress and performer, Organisation: Cethums Talk Anne Marie Helger, starts the VIP-Climate- Delivering a Low Carbon Future within Tiptop-Meeting. A meditation concert with sacRed room mu- the Transportation Sector sic from India and Spain. People are guided Speakers: To be announced through breaths and tips of kundalini yoga Organisation: Rådet for Bæredygtigtrafik 20:30-21:00 and science of consciousness. In order to cre- Red room ate a world in peace we need to recognize Transport’s carbon emissions continue to our sense of unity. We are all one and we live grow and are fed by a powerful mixture of Film together. mythology, subsidies, poor planning and Planet Positive streets prioritising the car, deterring pedes- Organisation: Planet Positive Foundation trians and cyclists. We must move on from analysis and clearly demonstrate that a low The campaign provides business leaders, carbon transport future is possible, desir- politicians, environmental organisations, able and deliverable. The presentation will celebrities and school children with an online 09.12.09 describe a simple, attractive and effective platform to express their visions of a low car- plan to produce at least an 80% reduction in bon world in 2020 via short movies, illustra- transport’s carbon emissions by 2050. tions or written words. 2020 Vision aims to 09:30-12:00 reposition climate change as an opportunity Yellow room to create a better way of living by present- Talk 19:00-20:00 ing exciting, positive views of a low carbon world. Empowering & Sustaining Action: yellow room Work that Reconnects Theatre Speakers: Rowan Tilly, Heather Hunt, Guhyapati. In The Footsteps of My Parents 20:30-24:00 Organisation: EcoDharma Centre Organisation: Gaa Zaa Lung Green hall The experimental workshop aims to sup- With a lard lamp, drumsongs and myths Film port us in reconnecting with our hearts and handed down through generations of Inuits REClimate - Film for the climate inspire us to take action. These tools have you can join a session that will spread light on Organisation: REClimate proven themselves supportive to activists a new future. and campaigners who may feel burnt out or During autumn young people in the Nordic searching for clarity. They assist in building countries produced their own short films affinity groups for action, and contribute to 20.00-22.00 on climate change. Join us for the opening a sustainable and effective activism. These screening and announcement of the win- brown room sessions will assist activists, campaigners ners. REClimate is organised by the Federa- and lobbyists taking part in Klimaforum to Film tion of Nordic Associations, the Scandina- remain motivated and supported during the Voices of the South on Climate vian Film Institutes, devoted.net and UNRIC. summit. + Voices from the South Watch the ceremony online at: www.recli- Organisation: FASE/FASE-ES mate.net. A Brazilian documentary presenting voices

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Save the Planet not the Profit: The Lurkers - Photo: Dave Cubby

10:00-12:00 Each year the Central American region is af- nical aspects of getting a community radio Green hall fected by various phenomena creating mil- station on the air, including what equipment lions in economic losses. Due to the rapid is needed, how to connect, use and look after Talk changes many lives are affected also. it and the technical basics of how low power Sacred Activism: Mobilizing spiritual FM radio works. Languages: EN, ES. communities to address climate change Speakers: Rev. Joan Brown room Campbell, Andrew 10:00-12:00 Harvey, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Theravadin, Sister Joan Red room 10:00-12:00 Chittister, Saliou Mbecke, Sant Balbir Singh Ji Brown room Organisation: Global Peace Initiative of Women Talk Declaration What are the guiding spiritual principles to Climate Change and International help create life sustaining societies? Action Human Rights Law Declaration workshops in the 9 theme without wisdom will not lead to long term Speakers: Curtis F.J. Doebbler and Ms Margreet groups - open to all positive outcomes. Wisdom without action Wewerinke Organisation: Declaration group also will not yield the needed results. The Organisation: Nord Sud XXi and An-Najah National University environmental crises demands that we join A participatory workshop dealing with the wisdom with action in a collective manner human rights approach to climate change. 13.00-14.30 and work together to develop concrete steps Grey room to reverse the damage we have caused our Talk earth and life systems. 10:00-12:00 Sustainable Energy for Development Grey room to Reduce Poverty 10:00-12:00 Talk Speakers: Paul Allen, Gunnar Boye Olesen, Emil Bedi, Blue hall Building a Community Radio Station: Meike Fink, Arjun Makhijani and Raymond Myles A technical primer Organisation: International Network for Sustainable Energy Talk Speakers: Max Graef (INFORSE), OVE, INSEDA, WAFD, ENDA, CDI, Earth Life Africa The Effects ofC limate Change and others Organisation: RadioActive on Central America The seminar will present a number of pro- Community radio is used as a powerful tool Speakers: Edgardo Chevez, Fabricio Guerra o Nelson posals for a rapid transition to 100% renew- for promoting social change around the Garcia Lobo able energy in 20-40 years for a number of world. This workshop will cover all the tech- Organisation: OCDIH y CASM de Honduras industrialised countries. A discussion on how

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Worst-case Scenarios - Organisation: Extreme Design Lab - Photo: Andras Mølgaard

we realise the proposals, barriers and ways 13:00-15:00 13:00-15:00 forward follows. After a comment from the Orange hall Blue hall developing world will be a discussion on the Talk Talk role of these plans in a global path to reduce climate gas emissions to sustainable levels. Monocultural Tree Plantations: 2/2: Tackling Capitalism and False solutions to climate change the Climate Crisis Speakers: Marcelo Calazans, Simone Lovera, Speakers: To be announced 13:00-15:00 Ana Filippini and others Organisation: Uk Climate Camp Brown room Organisation: RECOMA/World Rainforest Movement These workshops will consider how we can Talk Carbon sink projects, biofuels and tree - identify and tackle the root causes of climate ethanol have been proposed as solutions for Global Alarm: Warning, challenge, rescue change which are inherent in the social rela- climate change. On the contrary these are tions of capitalism. These open discussions Speakers: Jonna Vejrup Carlsen, Morten J. Lintrup, false solutions and monoculture tree plan- will cover; Capitalist accumulation as the Claus Thomsen, Erik Jensen tations have many negative impacts on the main cause of climate change; The intersec- Organisation: Global Alarm Association surrounding communities, mainly in South- tion of the economic, energy and climate cri- 4 factors can save environment and climate. ern countries. This negative impact has been sis; Social movements and radical responses All items are cost-benefit neutral and can be documented and denounced by several to the catastrophe; Social justice issues re- implemented in 5-10 years. 1:Responsibilities organizations including the World Rainfor- lated to the climate crisis; Climate justice and - UN’s Human Responsibilities. 2:Family plan- est Movement, the Latin American Network the future of anti-capitalism. ning - Overpopulation. 3: Trees, Reclaiming against Monoculture Tree Plantations and nature (reforestation). 4:Thorium - Energy/ the Global Forest Coalition. Thorium (no CO2). Languages: EN, DA. Languages: EN, ES.

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13:00-15:00 15:15-16:15 16:00-18:00 Green hall Brown room Yellow room Declaration Talk Talk Declaration plenary session. Presentation Why we should listen to what young BioRegional Solutions for of amendments and negotiations of the people have to say One Planet Living draft paper Speakers: To be announced Speakers: Sue Riddlestone Organisation: Declaration group Organisation: Young Friends of the Earth Europe Organisation: BioRegional Development Group Showing examples of actions, events and BioRegional’s One Planet Communities pro- methods that young people have been do- gramme is a network of the earth’s green- 13:00-16:00 ing to mobilise and ensure their voices are est neighbourhoods, where people can live Red room heard, to encourage action for climate justice a healthier, high-quality lifestyle while using Talk at home, and why they are here in Copenha- a fair share of our planet’s resources. The 1/2: Peoples’ Assembly on the Peoples’ gen. The discussion will involve the participa- programme currently has award-winning en- Protocol on Climate Change tion of diverse youth networks, movies and dorsed projects in the USA, UK, and Portugal. photos. The One Planet Community endorsement is a Speakers: Bdelmawla Ismail Mohamed Atia, Joan sign of the highest achievement in sustain- Carling, Wahu Kaara, Tomoko Kashiwazaki, Suranjan Kodithuwakku, Orin Langell), Don Maru), Kinda able design and operation, and is based on Mohamadieh, Sarojeni Rengam, Antonio Tujan, 15:15-17:00 the 10 principles of one planet living. Adam Wolfenden Orange hall Organisation: Peoples Movement on Climate Change Talk 16:00-18:00 The Peoples’ Assembly on Climate Change is Building Community Resilience to Climate Blue hall the space to present and ratify the Peoples’ Change through Food Sovereignty and Protocol on Climate Change that expresses Ecological Agriculture Talk the (Southern) peoples’ perspectives and as- Speakers: Gilbert Sape and Vijay Singh Negi GMO Trees, Plantations & REDD: Impacts pirations, their strategy and response to the Organisation: Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN AP) on indigenous peoples and the climate climate change issues. It is founded on the and Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) Speakers: Anne Petermann, Marcial Arias, Sandy principles of peoples’ sovereignty, respect This workshop proposes a way forward Gauntlett, Diego Cardinas, Camila Moreno for the environment, social justice and hu- through this climate crisis using a bottom- Organisation: Global Justice Ecology Project man rights and common but differentiated up approach, placing small-scale farmers at Reducing emissions from deforestation con- responsibilities. the centre of food production. Presenting tinues to be a major emphasis in the interna- evidence from over two decades of working tional climate negotiations. Unfortunately, with grassroots and people’s organizations, the draft of the REDD text allows monocul- 13:00-14:00 the workshop will show how biodiversity- ture tree plantations and even GE trees to be Yellow room based agriculture and food sovereignty are used. The impact on indigenous people, for- Theatre the foundation of true community resil- est dependent people and the climate itself, Some Sustainable Thoughts ience in coping with and adapting to climate will be discussed in the workshop along with Organisation: Jytte Abildstrøm change, mitigating global warming, and es- ways how people can get involved. tablishing a sustainable, equitable socio-eco- Languages: EN, ES. The environmentalist and ecological court nomic system. jester, Jytte Abildstrøm, will open up for half an hour to amuse future generations. 16:00-19:00 15:15-18:15 Yellow room Green hall 14:30-16:00 Talk Grey room Talk 2/2: Peoples’ Assembly on the Peoples’ 1/2: From Globalization to Localization Talk Protocol on Climate Change of Life and Economy Sustainable Energy Education Speakers: Bdelmawla Ismail Mohamed Atia, Joan Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Tim Jackson, Sophy Banks Carling, Wahu Kaara, Tomoko Kashiwazaki, Suranjan Speakers: To be announced and Francois Schneider Kodithuwakku, Orin Langelle, Don Marut, Kinda Organisation: INFORSE, SPARE, FoE Norway, Organisation: Degrowth Group, NOAH Mohamadieh, Sarojeni Rengam, Antonio Tujan, Friends of Baltic Russia Adam Wolfenden Economic Growth has caused tremendous Organisation: Peoples Movement on Climate Change environmental destruction and social ineq- uity all over the planet. But global prosper- The Peoples’ Assembly on Climate Change is ity and equity is possible within the limits of the space to present and ratify the Peoples’ the planet - if we relocalize life and economy. Protocol on Climate Change that expresses At this seminar you can hear four outstand- the (Southern) peoples’ perspectives and as- ing speakers elaborate on WHY and HOW and pirations, their strategy and response to the participate in the following debate. climate change issues. It is founded on the

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principles of peoples’ sovereignty, respect 18:30-20:00 21:00-23:00 for the environment, social justice and hu- Green hall Red room man rights and common but differentiated Film Film responsibilities. Young Voices on Climate Change The ReflectingP ool Organisation: Young Voices on Climate Change Organisation: Electronic Arts Intermix 16:15-18:15 Young Voices presents compelling and inspir- American artist, Bill Viola, describes The Re- Red room ing stories of young people from the USA and flecting Pool as “a collection of five indepen- around the world taking action and finding dent works which, taken as a whole, describe Talk solutions to the global warming crisis fac- the stages of a personal journey using imag- Making Marginalised Voices Heard in ing our planet. Young people are creating es of transition — from day to night, motion the UN Climate Process and implementing their own projects, taking to stillness, time to timelessness, etc. Each Speakers: To be announced the lead and garnering support from climate work explores specific video techniques and Organisation: FN-forbundet i Danmark scientists, teachers, parents, peers and con- technologies, in combination with the spatial At the core of the event is an introduction servation organizations. Turning knowledge potentials of stereo sound.” to “Citizen Participation in Climate Policy into action, by reducing the carbon footprint Making” followed by small interventions by of their homes, schools, communities, states participants in case studies in Brazil, Finland, and countries. Producer/Director: Lynne 21:30-24:00 India and Tanzania; all relating to an ongoing Cherry Green hall research and workshops in the mentioned Film countries. 19:00-20:00 Conversations with the Earth Red room Organisation: Insight Through the CWE partnership, Insight shares 16:30-18:15 Film Brown room works with Indigenous communities to en- Why New Coal able them record and share the impacts of, Talk Organisation: Switch ON and responses to, climate change at a local World Wide Views on Global Warming Perplexed by the problems facing India as it level. This is a unique opportunity to meet Speakers: To be announced develops, two young advocates from Swi- Indigenous videographers from the 6 new Organisation: WWViews c/o Teknologirådet tchON ride their cycles through the Indian media hubs in Cameroon, Philippines, Peru, The first-ever global citizens consultation coal belt to question the country´s growth Arctic, Kenya and Panama - part of a growing and contribution towards the formation of based on fossil fuel, to seek and highlight regional and a global network of Indigenous a global public. WWVievs invites to a debate alternatives for sustainable and equitable communities working on these issues. about how to bridge the gap between poli- development. Why New Coal gives new per- ticians and citizens in the climate debate. spectives to coal in India, addressing India’s What role should citizen’s views have in the growing energy needs, problems of energy UNFCCC process? A short documentary will security and climate change vulnerabilities. introduce the WWViews project. 10.12.09 20:00-22:00 17:00-19:00 yellow room 10:00-12:00 Orange hall Theatre Grey room Talk The Ancient Mariner Talk Get the Facts Right! Organisation: Odense International Music Theater Green Mapmaking, Locally and globally Global Climate Change Risks, Six male voices fall between the sky and Speakers: Wendy E. Brawer, Jens Hvass, Linnea Challenges & Decisions the sea in a musical and forceful meditation Uppsall and Tor Fossum Speakers: Katherine Richardson, Dorthe Dahl- over Coleridges poem: The Ancient Mariner. Organisation: Green Map System Human beings’ relation to nature and God is Jensen, Ole Wæver, Ole John Nielsen, Will Steffen, 600 cities, towns and villages in 55 countries HansHenrik Samuelsen caught in a complete composition by Chris have locally-led Green Map projects to pro- Jordans. The Ancient Mariner is a concentrat- Organisation: Klimaforum09 mote sustainable, climate-smart green living, ed, tough and suggestive memento to those Presentation of the conclusions and recom- as seen at GreenMap.org. With a new interac- climate issues presented in meteorological mendations from the International Scientific tive Open Green Map platform and adaptable, worse-case scenarios or through the political Congress “Climate Change: Global Risks, Chal- low cost tools for engaging all ages of resi- negotiations. lenges and Decisions”, March 2009 dents and visitors, there’s great potential for your community to get involved and gain new directions to a sustainable future. Presenta- tion includes global, Copenhagen, Malmo and New York Green Map projects.

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Mr. Green Circus - Organisation: Mr. Green Circus - Photo: Christian Gade Bjerrum

10:00-12:00 Workshop on local sustainable energy solu- 13:00-15:00 Blue hall tions to help development, in particular in Brown room rural areas, to reduce poverty and improve Talk Talk livelihood. Each speaker will present suc- International Cooperation for Renewable cesses from his/her country and will answer Climate Justice and Tourism Energy – in Europe and in the South the question: how can a global climate agree- Speakers: To be announced Speakers: Li Junfeng, Victor Menotti, Gerhard Timm, ment support local sustainable energy solu- Organisation: EED-TourismWatch, Ecumenical Coalition On Tilman Santarius tions in his/her country? Tourism, respect-Austria, Naturefriends International and Organisation: Heinrich Boell Foundation, Desertec Founda- Climate Alliance Austria tion, Green European Foundation, Nous Horitzons Tourism is a victim of global warming, but In order to increase the share of renewable 10:00-12:00 also contributes to it’s causes. Groups critical energy as quickly as possible and realise the Red room to Tourism from the global South and North long term vision of generating the electricity call for a debate about climate justice and demand completely from renewable energy Talk tourism. sources, international cooperation and ap- Climate Change in Tibet: propriate governance structures are neces- Consequences for Tibet and Asia sary. We will discuss two examples that aim Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Tashi, Tenzin Norbu, 13:00-15:00 at putting this into practice - the concept of a John Isom Blue hall Organisation: Tibet Third Pole European Community for Renewable Energy Talk and the Desertec project. The Impact of Monocultures on the Right to Food and Housing in Latin America 10:00-12:00 10:00-12:00 Speakers: Sofia Monsalve, Miguel Palacin, Green hall Ana Filipini and others Blue hall Declaration Organisation: FIAN Sverige Talk Declaration plenary session: The expansion of monocultural production Scenarios to Fast Transition to Presentation of the 3rd draft of the for exported products has severe impacts Sustainable Energy declaration and informal adoption of the on people’s access to adequate food, water, Speakers: Raymond Myles, Ganesh Ram Shresta, declaration. Only linguistic details may be housing, land and territory in Latin America. Timothy Byakola, Secou Sarr, Roque Pedace subject to changes. A panel discussion on the impacts of mono- Organisation: INFORSE, Low Carbon Society Network, and Speakers: cultural practices with participants from the Danish Organisation for Renewable Energy (OVE) Organisation: Declaration group different countries in Latin America. FIAN

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International, Habitat International Coalition rate on real issues: The rights of Indigenous integration between those and the built up – Latin America, and Solidarity Sweden Latin peoples as laid down in the UN Declaration of the whole spectrum of the local ecological America, will also present their new report on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; The im- base. We humans are the basic manipulator with case studies from all over Latin America. pacts of climate change and false solutions of that. In Permaculture we have been work- Language: ES. to climate change on indigenous peoples; ing with this since the 1970th. In relation to Indigenous perspectives on carbon trade and the Climate Change problems we therefore REDD; REDD realities on the ground. developed the strategy “less that 1 ton CO2 13:00-15:00 Languages: EN, ES. per person per year / more than 10.000 trees Grey room per person per lifetime”. The workshop will be discussing and developing this strategy Talk 13:00-16:00 further in relation to all climatic zones. Climate Change and the Orange hall Arctic Peoples Perspective Talk Speakers: Greenlandic youth 15:15-18:15 Limits to Growth Organisation: Foreningen NORDENs Ungdom Green hall The Nordic youth Association invites you to Speakers: Tim Jackson, Jørgen Nørrgaard, Mathis Wagernagel, Niels I. Meyer Talk participate in this presentation and discus- Organisation: Klimaforum09 Feminists Struggling Against Climate sion on the effects of climate change for the Change and Privatisation of the people of the far north. The focus of the dis- In 1972 a well-documented report pointed Environment cussion is the experiences of young people out that there are limits to growth on a lim- in relation to the changes. Come and join! ited globe. This conclusion was strongly criti- Speakers: Amparo Miciano, Josie Riffaud, Margrethe Language: DA. cized, especially by economists. The speak- Martinsen, Meena Raman, Miriam Nobre ers in this session are evaluating the concept Organisation: World March of Women of limits to growth in the light of today’s The first part of the workshop concerns the 13:00-15:00 experience with global warming, peak oil etc. links between feminism and environmental- Green hall They propose a number of solutions involv- ism and the challenges of the climate change ing new economic and social schemes. negotiations for women. The second part Talk is reserved for the sharing of experiences Models of Alternative Development of women’s struggles against the effects of and Climate Justice 15:15-16:15 climate change and the privatisation of the Speakers: Miguel Palacín, Cristian Dominguez, RenÃc Brown room environment, and also the affirmation of Vidaurre, Elizabeth Peredo, Juan Carlos Alurralde. Talk women’s alternatives. The third session will Organisation: Plataforma Boliviana de Cambio Climático present the World March of Women’s 3rd In- Ecodharma: Integrating the social and Climate Justice and Alternative Development ternational Action in 2010. personal in a methodology for change Models in Bolivia. The Bolivian Social Move- Languages: EN, ES, FR. ment’s Platform on Climate Change pres- Speakers: To be announced ents recommendations of a Climate Justice Organisation: Collectiu Eco-Actiu Tribunal sitting with the analysis of cases, Our climate crisis indicates the need for the 16:00-20:00 evidence, “victims” and Ecological “Debtors” radical re-organisation of socio-economic Orange hall as well as inspiring examples of alternative structures, and the deep transformation of Talk development models based on millennia-old both the values and consciousness which Towards a Peoples Tribunal on indigenous ways of life. underpin them. But often strategies for Ecological Debt and Climate Justice changing society and changing the self can appear antagonistic to each other. Ecodhar- Speakers: Lidy Nacpil, Ivonne Yanez, Percy 13:00-16:00 ma attempts to bring together insights from Makombe, Ricardo Navarro, Yuyun Harmono, Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, Angela Navarro, Naomi Klein, Buddhism and radical ecology - and gener- Red room Miguel Palacin, Tom Kucharz, Beverly Keene, Wilfred ate methodologies for effective action which Talk D’ Costa, Carolina Amaya, Elyzabeth Peredo honour the inseparability of social and per- Organisation: Jubilee South, World Council of Churches, Indigenous Perspectives on Forests sonal transformation. and Climate Change Climate Justice Now!, Oilwatch, Southern Peoples Ecologi- cal Debt Creditors Alliance (SPEDCA), Friends of the Earth Speakers: Fiu Mataese Elisara, Marcial Arias, Jorge International, Focus on the Global South, FASE, Ecologistas Furagaro, Kanyinke Sena, Pashuram Tamang, Flor 15:15-17:15 en Acción, CRBM Morales, Hubertus Samangun, Ben Powless, Anna Grey room Protecting human rights also means pro- Pinto moting the rights of people and nature. This Organisation: International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Talk activity aims at deepening understanding of Peoples of the Tropical Forests and the Global Forest Coali- 10.000 trees tion. ecological debt and its relation to climate, hu- Speakers: Tony Andersen man and nature rights, through analysis and Aiming to raise awareness of indigenous Organisation: Permaculture international testimonies from the creditors of ecological perspectives of forests and climate change debt, the sharing of strategies and propos- indigenous representatives with expertise in The basics in Permaculture are the establish- als for achieving recognition, and payment of forests and climate change policies elabo- ment of perennial plant systems – and the

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that debt. Including the role of a Peoples’ Tri- 19:00-22:00 bunal on Ecological Debt and Climate Justice. Green hall 11.12.09 Languages: EN, ES, FR. Film How Cuba Survived the Oil Crisis - Peak Oil 10:00 - open end 16:15-18:15 Organisation: Danish/Cuban Organisation Raahuset Film and discussion with the Cuban climate Red room Talk activist, ecologist and city garden worker Ro- Talk berto Perez, and the film’s producer Morgan Demonstration Banner Making Workshop 2/2: From Globalization to Localization Faith from Community Solutions in the USA. Speakers: Katherine Ball, Matthew Warren, Alec Neal of Life and Economy Organisation: SEA Change Artist Collective Speakers: Eirik Eiglad, Sophy Banks, Miguel Valencia, Participants will create large banners to car- Mauro Bonaiuto and Francoise Schneider 19:00-23:00 ry in the December 12 demonstration. Work- Organisation: Degrowth Group, NOAH Brown room shop artists will teach a screenprinting tech- The workshop will gather existing experi- Film nique in which participants will use to quickly ences on management of De-growth, orga- print any phrase of their choosing. The let- Adaptation: It’s your call nization and structure. It underlines existing ters are 28 x 43 centimeters and imprinted Organisation: BARCA De-growth thoughts in various NGO-organi- with a solar panel pattern. We will also have a sations and promotes future co-operation. BARCA present the Brazilian documentary series of posters to print from artists includ- Zugwang, discussing the choices human- ing the Beehive Collective (www.beehivecol- ity should make: fossil fuel crisis, global lective.org). Please bring your banner mate- 16:15-19:00 warming, search for sustainability and the rial if possible. Blue hall contributions of bioenergy for the future of the Planet. The documentary shows testi- Talk monies of key social actors such as Rajendra 10:00-12:00 Indigenous People Speak Out Pachauri – Nobel Prize winner and chairman Brown room Speakers: Jihan Gearon Faith Gemmi and of IPCC, Ignacy Sachs – economist and soci- Talk Sandy Gauntlett ologist, climatologist Carlos Nobre, biologist Meat Consumption and Climate Change Organisation: Global Justice Ecology Project Thomas Lovejoy, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva among others. Speakers: Jens Holm, Sonja Lewandowski, Sune For too many years the NFCCC has stifled the Borkfelt, Wayne CW Kao voices and wisdom of indigenous peoples. Organisation: Danish Vegetarian Society & “Indigenous Peoples’ Speak Out” will offer 20:00-22:00 VegClimate Alliance an important cultural opportunity for both A major shift away from meat-based diets participants and the audience. Come and yellow room is an essential part of efforts to stop global hear the uncensored expression of indige- Theatre climate change and other environmental nous peoples from every corner of the earth The Boycott threats. Different reports will be considered, regarding their experience with climate Organisation: Mighty Ruckus, Kathryn Blume including the 2006 UN FAO report “Live- changes. Come for a wild one-woman tour of Oval stock’s Long Shadow”. The questions of how Office romance, magical frogs, movie star to increase awareness of the dietary connec- cameos, and land in a blazing fire of deter- tions to climate change, and how to reduce 19:00-21:00 mination and hope. It’s December 2009, and the consumption of animal products in favour blue room there’s no love in the White House, because of plant-based diets, will also be discussed. Talk United States First Lady Lyssa Stratton has Feministic Self Defence started a sex strike until her husband, the Speakers: Elisabeth BistrÃm, and Coni Ronsten President, agrees to stop global warming and 10:00-12:00 Organisation: Ung Vänster (The Swedish Young Left) save the world. Yellow room Our world is not equal, both in the global Talk and private realm men maintain power over Climate Change and Human Rights women. One of the most extreme expres- of Indigenous Communities sions is men’s violence against women. We Speakers: Juan Carlos Alurralde are tired of being afraid and that our lives are Organisation: Diakonia América Latina limited. In this workshop we are learning how Climate change is causing Bolivia´s Andean to fight back and how to take back the right glaciers to retreat and many are expected to over our bodies. OBS: Only for women and vanish within a couple of decades. One such girls. Languages: EN, SW. glacier is Illimani, on which the indigenous rural community of Kaphi depends for their drinking water, sanitation, and livelihoods. Primary responsibility for the impacts of cli-

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mate change on the human rights of commu- be around 200 millions of climate induced a blind logic of capitalist accumulation and nities like Kaphi rests with those countries displaced people by the year 2050 - 30 mil- expansion. The market solutions have ut- that are the major emitters of greenhouse lion of them in Bangladesh. Victims of such terly failed to stop a course towards disaster. gases. a displacement are not responsible for this Ecosocialism is a radical alternative aiming fate, which has happened because of the to change the existing system of production high level of carbon emissions of developed and consumption, proposing a new model 10:00-12:00 countries. of civilisation, based on the satisfaction of Red room authentic social needs and the protection of the environment. Talk 10:00-12:00 Agriculture and Climate Change: Blue hall A critical analysis of proposed solutions 13:00-15:00 Talk Speakers: Helena Paul, Rachel Berger and Jean Yasol Yellow room Organisation: Development Fund, EcoNexus and Working with the Forces of Nature Practical Action to Heal the Planet Talk A presentation of a collaborative report: “Ag- Speakers: To be announced Launch of International Campaign on riculture and Climate Change: Real Problems, Organisation: Global Peace Initiative of Women Climate Refugee Rights (ICCR) False Solutions”. Presentations will assess The environmental crisis is a moral and spiri- Speakers: Ahmed Swapan Mahmud, Suranjan Kutuwakuti, Penny Davies, Demba, Caroline proposed solutions, such as biochar, GM tual crisis, a crisis of consciousness. Unless crops, intensified livestock production, soils we make a change in conciousness we will Organisation: VOICE in carbon trading, through to agro-ecological not be able to reverse the damage done. The launch of the Campaign on Climate Refu- farming systems based on enhancing benefi- All we need to do is to recognize the living gee Rights. Due to climate change the people cial biological interactions, maximising bio- systems we are a part of, focusing on the of developing countries, including Bangla- diversity and building on farmer knowledge. needed changes in behavior and lifestyles desh, will be displaced from their homes. A facilitated discussion will follow presenta- that will reduce the waste and degradation Claiming their right to be resettled and to tions. that modern life entails. place climate refugee rights in a legal frame- work under the United Nations.

10:00-12:00 13:00-14:00 Grey room Green hall 13:00-15:45 Talk Talk Blue hall Geoengeneering: The Inner Dimensions of Climate Change Talk Manipulating the climate for a technofix Speakers: Wangari Maathai, Sraddhalu Ranade,Phra Say No to GMOs: Why GM crops are not a Speakers: To be announced Dharmakosajarn, Richard Cizik, Sister Jayanti, Swami climate or food security solution Veda Bharati Organisation: ETC Group Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Debi Barker, others Organisation: Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) As action on emissions reductions stalls, in- Organisation: Center for Food Safety and dustrial think tanks and former climate scep- To reverse the damage of our environment Navdanya International tics are gaining support for using large scale and effectively address climate change, ev- Big agribusiness tells us genetically modified technology ‘fixes’ for the climate crisis. They ery individual will need to take responsibility. (GM) crops are necessary to feed the world. call this Geoengineering. Proposing risky in- Governments alone cannot do what needs This discussion, featuring world-renowned terventions in planetary systems such as pol- to be done. Shifts are happening. Spiritual environmental author and activist Vandana luting the upper atmosphere with nanopar- practices – meditation, prayer, reflection – Shiva, will explore problems with GM crops ticles, rejigging the chemistry of the world’s are key to changing perceptions and behav- and how true food security can be achieved oceans or attempting to redirect hurricanes. ior. What are the principles that must guide only by making a U-turn away from industrial Some governments are now toying with geo- our actions? How can these practices effect agriculture and toward sustainable, local, engineering and this threatens life on earth. outer change? organic food systems free of genetic modi- fication.

10:00-12:00 13:00-15:00 Green hall Grey room 13:00-16:00 Talk Talk Red room Claiming Rights for Climate Refugees Global Warming: Talk Speakers: Arjun Karki, Willy D Costa, Lidy Nacpil, The capitalist catastrophe and Interest-free Economy: Beverly Keene, Andreas Kamm, Hasan Mahmud the eco-socialist alternative Because greed never has been Organisation: South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication Speakers: Terisa Turner, Michael Löwy and others sustainable (SAAPE), LDC Watch and Equity and Justice Working Group Organisation: The Ecosocialist International Network Speakers: Miguel Ganzo, Sofia Hamrin, Henrik Friis Bangladesh (EquityBD) Global warming may soon become the worst Organisation: JAK Medlemsbank (Sweden) Due to the climate change impacts there will catastrophe in human history; the result of and J.A.K. (Denmark)

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An interest-based economy generates the need of constant and exponential growth. A good ground for a smooth and realis- tic degrowth would be to change to an interest-free economy. Interest encourages short-term decisions and favours proj- ects providing high, short term returns. JAK Medlemsbank (Sweden) has been operat- ing an interest-free savings and loan system since 1970.

13:00-16:00 Brown room Talk Strategy meeting on a people’s tribunal on ecological debt and climate justice, 2010 Speakers: Athena Peralta and Beverly Keene Organisation: Jubilee South, World Council of Churches, Climate Justice Now!, Oilwatch, Southern Peoples Ecologi- cal Debt Creditors Alliance (SPEDCA), Friends of the Earth international, Enlazando Alernativas, OWINFS, Focus on the Global South, FASE, Ecologistas en Acci Building on the ¨Towards a peoples tribunal on ecological debt and climate justice¨ activ- ity on the 10th, this strategy session aims at advancing collective planning of the tribunal process, as an instrument of struggle for recognition of the North’s ecological and cli- mate debt to nature and South peoples and support of new avenues, including codifica- tion of nature rights and the judicialization of ecological and climate crimes, for securing ecological justice. Languages: EN, SP, FR.

13:00-18:00 Orange hall Talk For Climate Justice: Food and Energy Sovereignty Speakers: Amparo Miciano, Anne Petermann, Camila Moreno, Fiu Elisara, Hildebrando Velez, Hindou Oumarou, Ibrahim Coulibali, Itelvina Masiloli, John Blessing Karumbidzwa, Jossie Riffaud, Kanyinke Sena, Lorenzo Muelas, Marcial Arias, Mary Carland, Simone Lovera, Tom Organisation: Friends of the Earth International LVC, WMW, GFC and FoEI have worked closely with different social sectors affected by questionable solutions. Session 1: Respon- sibility of agribusiness and fossil fuel TNCs in the climate crisis. Analysis of production chains including different regions or sub- regions, their characteristics, actors and impacts. Session 2: Questionable solutions to climate change and impacts on the food and energy sovereignty of the peoples. Session 3: Recommendable ways and actors towards Meat the Truth - Organisation: Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation

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Vulnerable - The Maldives - Organisation: Bluepeace - Photo: Firas Afeef

food sovereignty, energy sovereignty, and building approaches to more democratic LLL ties, aims to exchange experiences, actions climate justice. Closing session: Debate and for sustainability, promoting critical debates and reflections in order to further implement what we have to do to defeat our alterna- on mitigation, adaptation and funding. This common actions in volunteering activities. tives. Languages: EN, ES, FR, DA. workshop is part of the Second International Journey on Environmental Education for Sus- tainable Societies and Global Responsibility. 15:15-18:15 15:15-18:15 Green hall Yellow room Talk 15:15-18:15 Talk Climate Justice: Grey room Life Long Learning for Sustainable In Defence of Mother Earth Societies and Global Responsibility Talk and her Peoples Speakers: Moema Viezzer, Marcella Ballara, International Volunteering and a Speakers: Miguel Palacín, Juana Batzibal, Hugo Icu, Yvonne Underhill Sustainable Life Style: Reflections Mario Palacios Organisation: ICAE - International Council for Speakers: Sebastien Duick, Helena Helenski, Virginie Organisation: Solidarity Sweden-Latin America Adult Education Duval, Marek Rembowski - Latinamerikagrupperna This workshop will highlight the need for Organisation: SCI - Italia In the Mama Qota Titijaja Lake, Lake of the Lifelong Learning (LLL) for Sustainable Soci- By involving today’s youth in international Grey Stone Puma, 6500 delegates from orga- eties and Global Responsibility. In the current volunteering activities many organisations nizations representing the Indigenous Peo- international debates on climate change, have a strong effect on the volunteers way ples from the 22 countries of Latin America. capacity building is mistakenly placed as a of life and on climate change issues. The Decided to propose a Climate Justice Tribunal separate item. There is an urgent need to workshop, open to all and especially to all to place on trial the transnational corpora- shift away from the technocratic capacity organisations involved in volunteering activi- tions and the complicit governments that are

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predators of Mother Nature, plundering our 17:15-18:15 life inside it has changed, and the birds suffer natural resources and violating our rights, as Brown room from a diet low on energy. The film provides the first step towards an International Court you with an arctic gaze into the future. Talk of Environmental Crimes. Languages: EN, ES. Will the Amazon Survive Climate Change? Speakers: Salvador Pueyo 21:00-23:00 16:15-17:15 Organisation: Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences (IC3) Red room Brown room One of the most dramatic events that climate Film Talk change could bring about is a demise of the Trespassing Amazonian rainforest. We are not yet sure Global warming in developing countries: Organisation: Indigenous Environmental Network The Ghanaian experience that this is going to happen, but it is a real risk in the absence of emission cuts far more Widely censored at many film festivals, this Speakers: Joseph Mensah, Doris Adjin,Cynthia ambitious than governments are currently compelling documentary features Japa- Marfo,Janet Ankama and Diana Adjei willing to accept. This workshop will present nese radiation survivors from Hiroshima and Organisation: International Youth Development Initiative an overview and some of the latest research Nagasaki, who speak of global healing and The workshop focus on the impact of climate results about this topic. forgiveness. The film shows the extraordi- change on agriculture, health, energy, econ- nary efforts and risks that indigenous activ- omy and livelihood of developing countries ists, atomic veterans, global environmental- with case studies from Ghana. 19:00-20:00 ist, nuclear abolitionists and peace activists Red room take, to protect sacred lands, the air, the wa- ter, and people from desecration by further 16:15-18:15 Film weapon-testing and nuclear waste. Blue hall Busycle Organisation: Berwick Research Institute Talk The Busycle involves experimental pub- Trade and Climate lic rides that travel down city streets. Story 21:00-24:00 Speakers: Henrik Bang Andersen and telling is of the essence. Story collection Orange hall Carsten Pedersen spaces have been constructed throughout Music Organisation: Afrika Kontakt the country, and participants have the op- Ojos de Brujo This workshop focuses on the EU’s trade portunity to tell their story. The Busycle and Organisation: Ojos de Brujo with Africa. Language: DA the interactions it facilitate become an urban play on the traditional campfire as a space for Ojos de Brujo is a nine-piece band from gathering and telling stories. Barcelona, Spain that plays flamenco and 16:15-18:15 rumba, grabbing handfuls of hip hop, dub and Red room modern-sounding drum licks and bass lines, 19:00-21:00 or as the band describes it ”jipjop flamenkil- Talk Red room lo” (hip-hop with a little flamenco). The group Organic Urban Gardens in Cuba produces forward-looking music that could Speakers: Roberto Perez Rivero and Ester Fabiola Film definitely have been made only in Spain and Bueno Sànchez H2Oil probably only in Barcelona. Organisation: Danish-Cuban Association Organisation: Indigenous Environmental Network Cuba is at the forefront of organic and urban H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heart- agriculture. Today, more than 50% of Ha- break and politicization in the stories of those vana’s fresh produce is grown within the city attempting to defend water in Alberta against limits, using organic compost and simple ir- tar sands expansion. Unlikely alliances are built 20:00-22:00 rigation systems. Urban gardening has had a and lives are changed as they come up against Green hall visible impact on food security and the Cuban the largest industrial project in human history. Theatre diet and also brings environmental benefits. Swimming With the Polar Bears Many empty lots, which earlier were informal Organisation: Mel England garbage dumps, are now gardens that pro- 19:00-21:00 vide food to local communities. Languages: grey room Swimming With the Polar Bears is a funny, EN, ES. poignant, and devastatingly personal look Film at the dangers of global warming. Actor Mel The Arctic Eye England returns to the autobiographical one- Organisation: Olav Høgetveit man arena, with director Jill André, to explore The Arctic Eye brings you to a Norwegian the parallels between contemporary life, an- town 1200 km from the North Pole, which cient Eskimo mythology, and the tragic loss has transformed into an international epi- of endangered species. center for climate-oriented scientists. The surrounding fjord has stopped freezing, the

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Klimaforum09 21 ClimateForum09 presents: Ojos de Brujo in association with:

Ojos de Brujo – Flamenco with big city attitude

A unique mix of flamenco, hip hop and various Party with political resonator other ethnic music genres have turned the Bar- During the past 10 years, the band has released four celona collective into world music superstars. studio albums and various live and remix albums. The The Catalan innovators add musical colouring latest release from 2009 is called Aocaná. These al- to ClimateForum09. bums can prepare the still uninitiated for the roar of a concert awaiting the crowd at ClimateForum ’09. A To many people, flamenco is the epitome Sofpain. joie-de-vivre-yell on behalf of everyone oppressed in this world. Far away from the officials and all their Ojos De Brujo take the old tradition and add some - toasts at the climate summit. thing radically new. They have done so since the late 90s when they first took the world scene with their Ojos De Brujo is a hot-blooded band that never forgets red-hot, aromatic mixture of flamenco guitar, hand to plead the cause of the weak in concert. The weak, claps, Caribbean rhythms and North American rap – which the entire climate summit, ultimately, is or everything fronted by flamboyant vocalist Marina should be about. A widely recognised, international ”la Canillas” Abad. Many continents and points of the collective with Spanish magic and a rebellious joy of compass are present – and yet, the band’s fundamen- playing under the flamenco skirts. tal signature sound is more Catalan than all of Barce- lona’s shellfish and red wine combined. Ojos de Brujo play at DGI-byen on 11 December:21.00. Free entrance purple hall orange hall gray hall blue hall brown room green hall red room yellow room

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tural methods and explore new approaches 13:00-15:00 12.12.09 to securing our food supply. This session Red room highlights the role of community supported Talk Organic/Natural Agriculture in feeding a 10:00-12:00 growing population while mitigating climate A Real Environmental Movement: Stop talking, start working Brown room change and natural resource depletion. Speakers: Tamra Gilbertson Talk Organisation: Ung Vänster (The Swedish Young Left) Permaculture Village: 11:00-12:00 Forestry, sustainable construction Often questions about the environment Yellow room and decentralization become a competition of who has the best Talk “ecolifestyle”. Is that where an environmen- Speakers: Moderation by Morten Schmidt tal movement should focus? We discuss how Organisation: Den selvforsynende landsby på Sydfyn Feminist Environmentalisms Rewrite the Global Warming Narrative to avoid getting into a discussion about guilt, Based on the background of the self-sustain- those who can or can not afford to choose ing village and other projects we will discuss Speakers: Michelle Garvey organic and how to use class and gender agroforestry, sustainable building and eco- Organisation: University of Minnesota: Gender, theories to work radically for real. It is time to Women & Sexuality Studies Department villages as concrete answers to the climate start working! crisis. 50 adults and children inhabit the This workshop addresses normative U.S. self-sustaining village in the south of Funen environmental discourse, business-as-usual in Denmark. Houses are built of natural and politics and policies that focus on neoliberal 15:15-17:15 recycled materials and the community runs and market-based solutions to global warm- Red room a 15 ha. permaculture farm. Mira and Esben ing. These are “non-solutions” for the major- Talk arrange permaculture courses and publish a ity of the world, failing to engage with global Danish permaculture magazine. warming, exacerbating climate injustice and The ButterflyW ings: environmental crises. The argument is that Weather manipulations and energetic by utilising feminist environmentalist inter- devices to restore harmony 10:00-12:00 ventions throughout this discourse more Speakers: Jacques Cleret Acseipica and Red room inclusive and democratically aimed solutions Claire Henrion to global warming and climate injustice will Organisation: ACSEIPICA Talk be provided. The workshop is dedicated to alternative Dialogue on a Post-Oil Civilisation ways of improving positive climatic change Speakers: Nnimmo Bassey and Esperanza Martinez despite weather modifications and weather Organisation: Oilwatch International 13:00-15:00 manipulations. According to Wilhelm Reich’s The struggle for a new development model, Blue hall and Don Coft’s discoveries, we can create op- for energy sovereignty and for sustainability Talk portunities for everybody to learn ways of depends on our ability to think along the lines Learning from the Everyday Practice restoring positive energy everywhere even of a new development paradigm built not on of Transition with frequency pollution, electromagnetic oil but on the need to stop the flow of carbon pollutions and even chemical pollutions such Speakers: Paul Mcllvenny, Paul Routledge, David as chem-trails. into the ecosystem. It is evident that this Featherstone, Justin Kenrick transition to a new civilization requires the Organisation: Participatory Geographies Research Group mobilization of powerful movements around the world that will provide equity, justice and In making the transition to a post peak oil 20:00-21:00 sustainability. Languages: EN, ES. world of climate justice, communities over- green room come many obstacles: ideological diversity, bureaucracy, public apathy, economic con- Music Nature in Music 10:00-12:00 straints, vested interests and coercive state Organisation: North Zealand Symphony Orchestra Green hall enmity. In the process, they resolve tensions that are theoretically irresolvable: they deal The concert is 40 minutes of classical music Talk with capitalism; they deal with the state, played by violins, violoncellos, double basses, Organic Solutions to Climate Change they reconcile their radicals and reformists. flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, and Food Security Following opening statements, break-out horns, trombones, and timpani - all without Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Patrick Holden, Alan Imai, groups will discuss learning from this experi- amplifiers and microphones. Composers of Barbara Hachipuka Banda ence and disseminating the lessons. classical music are often inspired by Nature Organisation: Shumei International like stormy weather, lightning, majestic As countries experience shifts in climate mountains, forests, and whirling streams. conditions, food security becomes an in- Music by Gade, Grieg, Strauss, and Wald- creasing concern. A major contributor to teufel. climate change is modern, industrial agricul- ture. The effort to reduce our carbon imprint must include a re-examination of agricul-

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19:00-21:00 the facts and arguments that make up the Brown room 13.12.09 case for a local approach to climate, energy and environment issues. We argue that real Film popular agency, along with the municipal and A Little Bit of So Much Truth 10:00-12:00 regional levels, are all too often overlooked Organisation: RadioActive Red room when confronting these issues. Municipal A Little Bit of So Much Truth (Un Poquito de Talk and global solutions go hand in hand, as well Tanta Verdad), by Jill Freidberg (Corrugated 1/2: Debt, Trade, Finance, Agriculture as democratic, economic and technical revo- Films) about the use of the media in teacher’s and Climate Change lutions. protests in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006. The film is in Spanish with English, French and Portu- Speakers: Lidy Nacpil, Mario Palacios, Beverly Keene, Carolina Amaya, Camille Chalmer, Demba Moussa guese subtitles. Dembele, Arjun Karki, Ivonne Yanez, Ronnie Hall, 10:00-12:00 Tom Kucharz, Mary Lou Malig, Renaldo Joa, Ana Grey room Filipini, Silvia Ribeiro, JJ Polong Talk 20:00-21:00 Organisation: Climate Justice Now! Coalition and others Red room Climate Justice and Gender The workshop will use an interactive meth- Speakers: Lars Ohly and Rickard Warlenius Film odology (including short videos and pictures) Organisation: Vänsterpartiet, Ung Vänster and La vie en vert (Living Green) with testimonies from the South and cam- Vänsterns studentförbund paigners for climate justice. Discussing the Organisation: Francois Top This workshop will examine the relationship relationships between climate change, global Francois Top is a French painter and video between climate justice and gender. Rich issues such as ecological and climate debt, artist whose life project is to mutate into a people - mainly rich men - are responsible for the need to phase out fossil fuels, the impli- different form. “Imagination is our only tool global warming. Poor people - mainly poor cations of free trade and agrobusiness on to reactivate our process of evolution”, says women - are those affected most by climate climate change, and the role of international Francois. His wish is to become a green salad change. How can we achieve climate justice? financial institutions and global finance in and to grow in peace somewhere. See his And how do we change unsustainable con- promoting an unsustainable economic model. process of transformation on video: La vie sumption patterns among the rich men? en vert. Languages: EN, ES, FR.

10:00-11:00 10:00-12:00 Green hall 21:00-24:00 Brown room Film Orange hall Talk The Third Pole Music Cuba’s Energy Revolution Organisation: Vandana Shiva, Navdanya CO2-neutral music event Speakers: Luis Plácido Ortega Izquierdo and Luis Bérriz Pérez The Himalaya, the Third Pole, has so far been Organisation: OrangeCamp Organisation: Dansk-Cubansk Forening missing in the climate discussions. Himala- The event will be a 100% CO2 neutral music yan glaciers and rivers support nearly half of The Energy Revolution starting in 2006 has event supplied by solarpower. The event will humanity, but are disappearing at an alarming made Cuba a model of sustainable devel- have live rockbands and DJ’s performing. rate. The Third Pole is made by local communi- opment. In two years, the Cubans have cut Furthermore there will be a music competi- ties and young film makers. It documents the consumption of kerosene by 66%, liquefied tion and an environmental competition, both disasters Climate Change is already caus­ing in petroleum gas by 60% and gasoline by 20%. with nice prizes for the winners. the high altitude desert region of Ladakh. More details about the event can be found on The main aspects presented here: 1:Energy www.OrangeCamp.dk. efficiency. 2: Increasing the availability and reliability of the national electric grid 3: More 11:15-12:15 renewable energy technologies 4:Increasing Green hall the production of local oil and gas 5: Interna- tional cooperation. Languages: EN, ES. Talk Why Carbon Markets Won’t Work and a Route Map for Alternatives 10:00-12:00 Speakers: To be announced Blue hall Organisation: Friends of the Earth England, Wales, Talk Northern Ireland Municipalist Climate Politics Friends of the Earth UK and their allies will Speakers: Roxanna Castellon speak about their new report on carbonmar- kets, why they won’t work and what the al- Organisation: Communalism - International Journal for a Ra- tional Society and Democratic Alternative (Sweden) ternatives are. Languages: EN, ES. Without decentralisation no global solu- tions are possible. This seminar focuses on

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13:00-14:00 by the end of 2010. An additional number of 13:00-16:00 Grey room green jobs equivalent to 1.5% of the popula- Blue hall tion, within 1 year. Ending domestic and short Talk Talk haul flights and yearly targets to reduce the Climate and Intergenerational burning of coal now. Transition Towns: Issues Dialogue A concrete practical alternative Speakers: To be announced Speakers: Ben Brangwyn, Sophy Banks, Organisation: International Youth and Student Movement 13:00-15:00 Naresh Giangrande for the United Nations Red room Organisation: Transition Network - UK The dialogue will examine questions of eq- Talk The Transition Towns (TT) initiative pres- uity and justice across generations vis-à- ents concrete ways for individuals to act on 2/2: Debt, Trade, Finance, Agriculture vis climate change and development, calls climate and peak oil challenges in their com- and Climate Change for reparations and justice for slave trade munities. Based on positive visions of the and colonialism on which unequal industri- Speakers: Lidy Nacpil, Mario Palacios, Beverly Keene, future, we enable the creation of sustain- alization was based; emphasize decoloniz- Carolina Amaya, Camille Chalmer, Demba Moussa able lifestyles. This workshop explains TT as Dembele, Arjun Karki, Ivonne Yanez, Ronnie Hall, ing global governance and meeting climate a concept and informs on achievements to Tom Kucharz, Mary Lou Malig, Renaldo Joa, Ana change challenges through south-south Filipini, Silvia Ribeiro, JJ Polong date. Our goal is to inspire others to start TT cooperation, north-south solidarity and initiatives locally. Join the TT movement! Cre- Organisation: Climate Justice Now! Coalition and others more democratic international institutions; ate a better world through local action! promote a process for international NGO The workshop will use an interactive meth- campaigning on climate change and inter- odology (including short videos and pictures) generational issues; build necessary contact, with testimonies from the South and cam- 14:00-16:00 networks and partnerships. paigners for climate justice. Discussing the Øksnehallen relationships between climate change, global issues such as ecological and climate debt, Theatre 13:00-15:00 the need to phase out fossil fuels, the impli- Mr. Green Cirkus Orange hall cations of free trade and agrobusiness on Organisation: Mr. Green climate change, and the role of international TALK Meet the award-winning Mr. Green Circus- financial institutions and global finance in Show. Where the Climate Clown, The Music Manifesto on climate change and the promoting an unsustainable economic model. Robot Lydku Lise and The Interactive Energy future of food security Languages: EN, ES, FR. Machine fuelled by the audience´s energy, Organization: International Commission on the jeopardize everything to find alternative Future of Food and Agriculture sources of energy in the show. Never really Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Caroline Lockhart 13:00-16:00 finding a sufficient amount of energy to get and more. Green hall properly started. This groundbreaking document articulates Talk a powerful new vision for confronting cli- Soya and Pigs for Food and Fuel mate change and ensuring food security for 14:15-16:00 Speakers: Mario Monti, Jorge Rulli, Jorge Galeano, the planet. Vandana Shiva, world renowned Yellow room radical scientist, environmentalist and hu- Marek Kryda man rights advocate will be joined by other Organisation: NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark Talk leading activist members of the International Denmark produces 25 million pigs annually The Negawatt Scenario: Commission on the Future of Food and Agri- using GM soya from Argentina. The soybean Our energy strategy for an culture who drew up the document, and will and pig industries are now hoping to supply Alter-Development detail the Manifesto’s clear and to the point energy markets with so-called renewable Speakers: Vincent Le Rouzic message. energy. If agriculture is included in the cli- Organisation: Mouvement Utopia mate change deal and if “no-till” agriculture The Negawatt Scenario should be adopted as is treated as a carbon sink, then intensive pig it would achieve the factor-four goal. Based 13:00-15:00 production and GM soya monocultures will on energy sobriety and efficiency, and the Brown room effectively be rewarded with carbon credits development of renewable energies (solar when they should be condemned as destruc- Talk energy, wind power, water power, geother- tive. Languages: EN, ES. The Climate Emergency: mal energy and biomass). This would largely Making the emergency response real decrease French greenhouse gas emissions Speakers: To be announced over time and improve the economy by 2050. Language: FR. Organisation: Campaign against Climate Change The Climate Emergency is just a meaningless phrase unless the North is taking real con- crete measures that look and smell like emer- gency measures, such as: 10% emission cuts

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Organisation: Danish-Cuban Association - Photo: Bente Dam Sørensen

14:15-16:15 15:15-17:15 15:15-18:00 Grey room Red room Orange hall Talk Talk Talk Eco Update from New-York City Reclaim the Fields!: The Climate Justice Now! Speakers: Bill Di Paola, Laurie Mittlemann Growing food against privatization Peoples Assembly Organisation: Time’s Up environmental organization, Speakers: To be announced Speakers: To be announced New-York City Organisation: Reclaim The Fields Organisation: Climate Justice Now Time’s Up is a grassroots organisation using While the Kyoto agreement and Copenhagen This Assembly will inspire activists to take educational outreach and direct action to negotiations head towards more privati- the fight for climate justice back to their promote a more sustainable, less toxic city. zation of natural resources, young people homes, onto the streets, and into the UN. In- For 20 years Time’s Up! has been battling to mobilize all around the world to reclaim the digenous leaders, farmers, women and work- calm New York City’s streets for a better cy- fields and start to produce food as a way to ers, community activists, singers, poets and cling experience. Find out how they attempt resist against the neo-liberal enterprise of story tellers will educate, inspire and give to make cycling a safe, fun, everyday way destruction. Languages: EN, ES, FR. testimony. The hot issues in the negotiations to spare the climate through group rides, will be debated and ideas for action / alterna- videos, mediagenic and funny events, skill- tives shared. Join us to learn about climate shares, cultural, social and legal means. justice and to build our movement.

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15:15-18:15 climate change with representatives of the Organisation: Klimaforum09 Brown room South and the trade union movement. A gen- This meeting will bring together Green politi- eral discussion on the topic with participants Talk cians from across the globe to outline their in the meeting. views on what a meaningful climate agree- Climate Change and Conflicts: ment is and how it can be achieved. With the The Danger of future wars UN climate, talks in Copenhagen expected Speakers: Trine Pertou Mach, Joachim Spangenberg, 16:15-18:15 to fall short on delivering a far-reaching and Jürgen Scheffran,R einer Braun, Lene Junker, Claus Yellow room binding agreement to tackle climate change; Montonen Talk this public event aims to give a Green per- Organisation: International Network of Engineers and Scien- spective on how a meaningful and sufficient tists for Global Responsibility (INES) and No To War Denmark When Climate Change is a global deal on climate change can be reached (NTK) Matter of Survival before it is too late. According to the UN, 20 million people were Speakers: Mulualem Birhane Lieh, Alebachew Adem made homeless because of climate related Nurye and Rahel Belete Eshete disasters in 2008. We will experience more Organisation: Ethiopian climate change NGO network floods and drought, and force millions of poor 19:30-20:00 Climate change is pushing Ethiopia’s farmers people to flee their homes, causing conflicts Red room lives to the edge. Rains are unpredictable and over farmland, water and food. Solutions are Film droughts occur often. The Ethiopian Civil So- required that are socially and globally just. ciety Network on Climate Change, presents A World Beyond Oil Money used on weapons of mass destruction how climate change affects one of the least Organisation: Brandbjerg Folk High School and warfare should be transferred to social developed countries in the world and what In August 2009 fifteen people from all over and sustainable development. should be done to help those most vulnera- the world gatheRed room for a COme2gether ble to adapt. Meet the farmer Mulualem who climate workshop at Brandbjerg Folk High grew up in a green Ethiopia but believes he School in Denmark. The purpose was to dis- 16:00-18:00 will die in a dry Ethiopia. cuss visions and scenarios for a world beyond Green hall oil and send a message to the UN Climate Talk Conference in Copenhagen. The message to Agriculture and Climate Change: 17:00-19:00 COP15 presented in this film is based on this Real problems, false solutions Red room workshop and on the assumption that an- other world is possible. Speakers: Helena Paul, Million Belay, Melca Mahiber, Talk Teresa Anderson, Stella Semino A Constructive Popular Movement Organisation: NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark Programme for Sustainable Transition 20:00-24:00 A critical overview of the proposed COP15 Speakers: Torgny Östling, Lars Igeland, Knud Raahuset solutions for climatic mitigation and adapta- Andersen, Anders Olesen and others tion. The themes presented will be: Carbon Organisation: MJV/Friends of the Earth Sweden, NOrdbruK/ Music trading proposals for agriculture; does no-till Via Campesina Sweden, MST stödgrupp/Support group, agriculture reduce carbon emissions?; bio- Levende hav/Living Sea, Austrian Social Forum, Föreningen/ Save the Planet not the Profit char and what can we expect adding charcoal Association Aktivism.info Organisation: Anne Feeney + The Lurkers + David Rovics to the soil; what are the climate implications How can a constructive programme for a Experience a night with peace activist and of grabbing “marginal land”; can genetic en- sustainable transition of our societies be singer Anne Feeney, bluegrass from the gineering and the new “bioeconomy” provide developed by popular movements including Australian band The Lurkers and the singing solutions to climate change?; towards an Al- both industrial, land and water use produc- American journalist David Rovics’ folk-punk ternative Vision. Languages: EN, ES. tion as well as consumption. The importance representation of the state of the world. of more local or collective forms of organiz- ing the means of production and consumption 16:15-18:15 will be addressed. How to combine land and 20:00-22:00 Blue hall urban reform as well as alternative industrial red room production. How to strengthen both rural and Talk urban social forces. Languages: EN, SP, PT, DA. Film Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: The Good with the Bad Left alternatives Organisation: Sussi Handberg Speakers: Marisa Matias, Eva Bulling-Schroete, Per 18:00-21:00 Sussi Handberg demonstrates how it is pos- Clausen, Ian Terry, Walden Bello Orange hall sible to create a modern, low carbon and Organisation: Enhedslisten/the Red-Green Alliance (Den- comfortable strawbale house based on natu- mark), Die Linke (Germany), the Left Bloc (Portugal), Euro- Talk pean Left – possibly more Copenhagen and beyond: ral and local materials. The film shows how the strawbale house forms out of the reha- A public meeting/workshop of European Delivering a meaningful deal on climate bilitation process after having thrombosis in left parties presenting their views on the change - the Global Green perspective the brain. Sussi Handberg is a PhD in Environ- climate crisis and discussing the role, policies Speakers: Marina Silva, Wangari Maathai, José Bové, ment and Technology. and strategies of the radical left to confront Christine Milne, Elizabeth May, Catherine Grèze

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Bioregionalism - Organisation: Permaculture Denmark - Photo: Poul Erik Pedersen

21:00-23:00 As the economic crisis continues and climate 10:00-12:00 Green hall politics remains deadlocked, proposals for a Red room Green New Deal have increasingly come into Film Talk vogue. Is investing in the green economy, Voices of Victims promising to foster economic, ecological and Saving the Rain Forest and Transition Organisation: Ibis/Oxfam social goals, the only way to resolve the cur- to Sustainable Forestry In a selection of videos, Oxfam has collected rent crises? Or will the quest for economic Speakers: Torgny Östling, Simone Lovera, Anna compelling testimonies on the effects of growth once again fuel the destruction of Bernstad, Dag Fredriksson, Luiz Henrique climate change. The affected people show our planet? This workshop discusses the ten- Organisation: MJV/Friends of the Earth Sweden, NOrdBruk/ us the problems with flooding in Chimbote, sion between pragmatism and the need for Via Campesina Sweden earthquakes and draughts in Arequipa and fundamental transformations. We address the role of forests for the climate, glacier melting in the Highlands of Peru. At the role of forest degradation and deforesta- the same time they show how they try to tion in the climate negotiations, and the un- adapt to the new climatic reality with their 10:00-12:00 certainties and impacts of commodification of scarce resources. Green hall the forest. We then focus on how to change the production, that is, move to ecologically Talk and socially sustainable forestry in the North ALBA: Political Will to Sustainable and the South. Environmetalists, small farm- Development ers, forest dwellers and indigenous people Speakers: Edelys Santana Cruz will address this issue. Languages: EN, ES. 14.12.09 Organisation: Danish-Cuban Association ALBA is an economic, social and cultural alli- 10:00-12:00 10:00-12:00 ance between nine Latin American countries Yellow room Blue hall to fight poverty and social exclusion. It was founded in 2004 as an alternative to the US Talk Talk neoliberal ALCA agreement and is based on Impacts of Cclimate Change on the Will a Green New Deal Save Us?: the principles of mutuality, cooperation, soli- Lives of the People in the LDCs Socio-ecological ways out of the crisis darity and respect for the sovereignty of the Speakers: Arjun Karki, Demba Dembele, Sarba Raj Speakers: Andrea Lambrich, Hendrik Sander, peoples. The eradication of illiteracy in Ven- Khadka, Azeb Girmai, Rezaual K Choudhry Alexis Passadakis ezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador are Organisation: LDC Watch and MS Action Aid, Denmark Organisation: Attac Germany among its advances. Languages: EN, ES.

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The impacts of climate change will be pre- 13:00-15:00 be made, then participants will break out into sented by the select representatives of Green hall small groups to discuss one or more topics of LDCs. An interaction will follow. Participants their own choosing. Languages: EN, ES. Talk from UN and Gov. reps, CSOs and people af- fected directly. Durban Group for Climate Justice: Workshop 1 13:00-16:00 Speakers: Souparna Lahiri, Larry Lohmann, Anna Orange hall 10:00-12:00 Pinto, Trusha Reddy, Janet Redman and Oscar Reyes Talk Brown room Organisation: Durban Group for Climate Justice Sustainable Living, Localism Carbon trading is a complex system with a Talk and Resilience simple goal: to make it cheaper for compa- Why Agrofuel is a False Solution to nies to continue polluting. This workshop Speakers: Stephan Harding, Jon Rae, Julie Richardson Climate Change will examine some of the largest carbon Organisation: Schumacher Darlington Speakers: To be announced trading criminal acts taking an in-depth look Transition Network and Schumacher College Organisation: La Via Campesina at corruption, ways the Clean Development offer a participatory event inspired by grass Testimonies from small farmers from grass- Mechanism has perpetuated the criminalisa- roots action that communities are taking in roots organisations and members of La Via tion of resistance on the ground, the break- response to the twin challenges of climate Campesina concerning agrofuel projects in down of the market and how climate finance change and peak oil. Imagine what your own Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North Amer- has functioned to rig the system throughout community would look like as we lead a way ica. This session will explain how agrofuels Kyoto’s history. of life that is more resilient, more fulfill- generate food crises, violations of peasant ing and more equitable whilst dramatically rights and climate change. Languages: EN, lowering our carbon footprint and reducing ES, FR, PT. 13:00-16:00 oil dependency. This is already beginning to Red room happen and examples are captured by the Talk recently released film ‘IN TRANSITION’, which 13:00-15:00 will be shown at the event. The Role of Boreal Forests in Yellow room the Climate Change Debate Talk Speakers: Andrey Laletin, Sini Eräjää, Roger Olsson, 15:00-17:00 Allocating the Carbon Budget: Anatoly Lebedev Green hall Fresh perspectives Organisation: Taiga Rescue Network and Speakers: Moderated by Surya Sethi and Global Forest Coalition Talk Ambuj Sagar The workshop aims to address the impor- Durban Group for Climate Justice: Organisation: Center for Science and Environment (India) tance of boreal forests in mitigating and Workshop 1 There is no fair solution to climate change adapting to climate change as well as the Speakers: Marcelo Calazans, Rehana Dada, Michael mitigation without a thoughtful basis for ef- threats to boreal forests posed by climate Dorsey, Tom Goldtooth, Ana Filipini, Ivonne Yanez fort sharing. A diverse panel will go beyond change. The workshop will look into oppor- Organisation: Durban Group for Climate Justice rarified descriptions of individual proposals tunities to preserve boreal forests as carbon Carbon trading is a complex system with a to examine how key allocation methods truly storage and also discuss perspectives on simple goal: to make it cheaper for compa- compare, and how a budget approach could how outcomes of the climate negotiations nies to continue polluting. New false solu- be introduced into a climate deal. affect boreal forests, situated mainly in An- tions such as REDD, techno-fixes like CCS and nex 1 countries. market linking schemes are proposed. What are they and what would their potential im- 13:00-15:00 pacts be? The workshop decodes the new Blue hall 13:00-16:00 languages developing inside the climate Talk Brown room and highlights issues from a justice-based Talk Talk approach of the impacts on people and the Climate, Ethics and Food Climate Change and the Politics environment. Speakers: To be announced of Transition Organisation: Danish Consumer Council Speakers: Paul Chatterton, Alice Cutler, Kevin Smith, The workshop will focus on the ethical impli- Lauren, John Cunnigham 15:15-17:15 Yellow room cations of our food choices in a climate-dis- Organisation: Trapese Popular Education Collective tribution relationship. Production and con- Talk sumption of food accounts for 22% to 31% In 2007 members of the Trapese Collective Indigenous Voices on Climate Change of the EU countries overall impact on climate. published a booklet called ‘The Rocky Road to Due to climate change, living conditions in Transition: The Transition Towns movement Speakers: Brian Keene, Nick Lunch and Gleb Raygorodetsky many parts of the world are worsening, while and what it means for social change”. This food is becoming a scarce resource globally workshop will explore the politics of transi- Organisation: Land is Life, InsightShare and the Christian Fund due to population growth and changing diets tion through a number of key issues raised in in developing economies. Languages: UK, DK. the booklet. Short opening statements will This workshop is part of an indigenous-led

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multimedia campaign to amplify indigenous 16:15-18:15 18.30-21.00 voices in the global discourse on climate Red room Green hall change. Presented by indigenous custodi- Talk Film ans of global biocultural heritage alongside with their partners Land is Life and Insight- Carbon Capture and Storage: Age of Stupid Share, the workshop will highlight first-hand A new solution or another problem? Organisation: Federation of Young European Greens accounts of the impacts of climate change Speakers: Kim Ejlertsen, Palle Bendsen, Brian Vad The Age of Stupid is the new four-year epic on local communities. The focus is on the Mathiesen from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Os- unintended consequences of imposed miti- Organisation: NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark car-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a gation efforts, and examples of traditional The argument for CCS is that it will allow man living alone in the devastated world of knowledge in developing responses to cli- continued use of coal AND contribute to the 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and mate change. reduction of CO2 emissions. The workshop asking: why didn’t we stop climate change debates the following critical aspects: 1. Cli- when we had the chance? mate effects: can CCS deliver? how much? will 15:15-17:15 it be in time? 2. Environmental impacts: wa- Blue hall ter consumption, pollution. 3. The economics 21:00-23:00 Talk of CCS. 4. CCS and renewable energy supply Green hall systems: can CCS fit? 5) CCS and biomass. 6) Hands-on Tactics Training for Youth Film CCS and offsetting. Languages: EN, DA. Activists Demanding Climate Justice A Sea Change Speakers: To be announced Organisation: Niijii Films/Sailors for the Sea Organisation: Young Friends of the Earth Europe 17:15-18:15 A Sea Change is the first documentary about A workshop giving tips and tactics on mak- Brown room ocean acidification. Ocean acidification is climate change’s evil twin, caused by excess ing an effective and successful action, in the Talk context of the negotiations happening now carbon dioxide. Full of scientific information, Gender and Climate Change: in Copenhagen. There’ll be space for creative gorgeous scenery and an intimate story of a Perspectives from Nigeria ideas planning, how to do a peaceful, fun, vi- Norwegian-American family whose heritage sual action at a later stage of the COP15 Talk. Speakers: Ms Titilope Ngozi Akosa, Mr Olawale is bound up with the sea. Followed by Q&A Aimed at young people wanting to work col- Salami, Ms Olukemi Oluyide and Mrs Racheal with director Barbara Ettinger and co-pro- Okegbola lectively with others from across the world ducer Sven Huseby and Brad Warren of the on a peaceful yet demanding action during Organisation: Centre for 21st Century Issues Sustainable Fisheries Partnership. the Talk. Climate change in Nigeria is a reality. Women are more affected than men because of their poverty and social responsibilities. The work- 16:15-18:15 shop will focus on the impacts of climate Orange hall change on women in Nigeria as well as on their different coping strategies. Talk Bill McKibben on 350 and the Global Movement 17:15-18:15 Speakers: Bill McKibben Green hall Organisation: 350.org Talk On 24 October, people at over 5200 events Latin America: in 181 countries came together for the most Regional proposals toward climate change widespread day of environmental action in Speakers: Gerardo Honty, Manuel Rodríguez the planet’s history. 350 is the most impor- Becerra, Pedro Tarak, Yan Speranza tant number in the world—it’s what scien- Organisation: Latin American Climate Platform. tists say is the safe upper limit for C02 in the atmosphere. Bill McKibben will discuss the Highlights of multi-stakeholder dialogues implications of that day, now knowing that throughout the region on the forthcoming we have that kind of collective power around challenges and opportunities for Latin Amer- the world. ica in a post Kyoto regime. Languages: EN, ES.

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citizens can play an active role in social pro- and geothermal which are just as devastat- 15.12.09 cesses and adapt their own processes to en- ing to the environment and climate change courage and support sustainability globally. as fossil fuels when used on a large scale. Kyoto gave exception for power-intensive 10:00-12:00 industries that use renewable energy giving Brown room 10:00-12:00 Iceland the right to emit an extra 1.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year until Talk Green hall 2012. Climate Change in Africa: Talk A matter of social and economic rights REDD in Amazonia: Speakers: Bairbre de Brún, Dumezweni Dlamini Will the rainforest be part of 10:00-12:00 the carbon market? Organisation: Afrika Kontakt Brown room Speakers: Camila Morena and others Bairbre de Brún, MEP, a member of the Eu- Talk ropean Parliament’s climate delegation to Organisation: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Head of Latin America Dep., Popular Education: Building movements COP15 presents a critical account of the EU’s thinking critically and taking action position on climate change and it’s support The inclusion of the tropical forests in a for developing countries. Dumezwenu Dlami- global climate agreement has evoked hopes Speakers: Alice Cutler, Kim Bryan, Paul Chatterton ni will present a view on what climate change and fears in the world’s largest rain forest Organisation: Trapese Popular Education Collective means to African countries in terms of social area. While some expect large amounts of Trapese have been working since 2004 to and economic rights, and what African CSOs money for forest conservation and forest inform, inspire and enable groups to take are calling on the EU to do, and ways of mo- people, others fear drastic impacts of the action. We want to bring together groups to bilising an African climate movement. market mechanisms on habitat and culture of share experiences of using popular educa- traditional forest dwellers. Is REDD a unique tion to build their social justice movements, chance or the starting point for a transfor- either through workshops, cultural activities, 10:00-12:00 mation of nature into an economic good? street interventions or through formal edu- Yellow room cation. We hope to share some of our practi- cal ideas and reflections as well as thinking Talk 10:00-12:00 about what resources and tools we need to Mind and Matter: Red room develop together. Languages: EN, ES. Confluence of 2 living systems Talk Speakers: Sister Jayanti and Joachim Golo Pilz Small Farmers’ Sustainable Agriculture Organisation: Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University Cools Down the Earth 13:00-14:00 A conversation with Sister Jayanti, a medita- Green hall Speakers: To be announced tion practitioner for more than 40 years and Organisation: La Via Campesina Talk a spiritual expert on the living system of the False Solutions: How to resist them soul and how it is connected to matter, and Industrial agriculture is responsible for more and promote alternatives Joachim Golo Pilz, an entrepreneur in the field than 50% of emissions; from conversion of of solar power plants and alternative energy forest into mono-culture plantations, high Speakers: Nnimmo Bassey, Ricardo Navarro, Ibrahim Coulibali, Tom Goldtooth, Rosa Rivero forms. What are the operating laws of the use of fossile fuels to run tractors, machin- energy of matter and soul? ery, and transporting food among cities Organisation: Friends of the Earth International, and continent, etc. On the other hand, small La Via Campesina, World March of Women, Indigenous Environmental Network farmers’ sustainable agriculture contributes This debate explores the false solutions that 10:00-12:00 to the reduction of emissions and keeps the have been promoted in the name of tack- Blue hall carbon in the soil. Any genuine solution to climate change requires a transition from ling climate change including the role of the Talk industrial agriculture into sustainable family World Bank, carbon offsetting, monoculture A Sustainable Germany in a farming. Languages: EN, ES, FR, PT. plantations, agrofuels and their devastating Globalized World impacts on local communities in particular, Speakers: Riccardo Navarro, Nnimmo Bassey, Sunita Indigenous Peoples, peasant farmers, wom- Narain, Michael Frein, Church and Antje von Broock 10:00-12:00 en and their environment. The speakers will Organisation: Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutsch- Grey room highlight the inspirational struggles for sur- land e.V. (BUND)/Friends of the Earth, Church Development vival that are taking place and what sustain- Service (EED), Brot für die Welt (all Germany) Talk able alternatives are being put in place. A public debate on a study performed by Dangers of Large Scale ‘Green Energy’ BUND/Friends of the Earth Germany, de- as an Industrial Substitute. velopment organizations of the Protestant Speakers: To be announced Churches “Brot für die Welt”, and the Church Organisation: Saving Iceland Development Service(EED). The study dis- Saving Iceland probably has the most articu- cusses how politics, economy and society lated critique on greenwashing. All of the can become viable for the future, and how country’s power comes from hydroelectric

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Claiming Rights for Climate Refugees - Organisation: EquityBD - Photo: Din M. Shibly, cortesy by EquityBD

13:00-14:00 sharing knowledge and power to think and improvements, e.g. in terms of gender main- Grey room realize innovative politics in Salvador´s ter- streaming. Also to pursue a much more am- ritory concerning the ecological protection bitious vision of gender and climate justice. Talk and management of water resources. Moreover, we will explore different practical Jaguaribe Watershed Forum: and theoretical approaches to make these Discussing urban water in Salvador changes happen. (Bahia), and Integrated Biosystems 13:00-15:00 in Brazil Blue hall Speakers: Maíra Menezes de Azevêdo and 13:00-15:00 Talk Guilherme Castagna Red room Organisation: Jaguaribe Watershed Forum and Political Salon: Reflections on gender, OIA-O Instituto Ambiental climate and change Talk Urbanization process caused a lot of prob- Speakers: To be announced Local Solidarity lems concerning water management in Organisation: GenderCC - Women for Climate Justice Speakers: Carolin Schröder Brazilian cities. Local community must be Gender experts and activists from around Organisation: Technical University Berlin involved in the discussion of solution possi- the world will exchange their views on how What collective approaches relating to cli- bilities in order to achieve consistent results. to achieve gender and climate justice. Key is- mate change exist in different cities in the Jaguaribe Watershed Forum is a relativly new sues for the debate are how we can work in energy, construction, consumption, and experience on organizing local communities, the negotiation process and seek to achieve transport sectors? How can knowledge

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about solidarity-based and collective action onstrate sustainable energy technologies and Friends of the Earth International be applied to other bottom-up projects and and solutions that can contribute toward a A just climate agreement depends on the how can they become reflected (more quick- scenario where the global temperature will willingness ofdeveloped countries to provide ly) in policies? How do we define local solidar- not increase by more than two degrees cen- compensatory finance to Southern countries ity, fairness and collective action in times of tigrade. More information on the project can in order to address adaptation and mitiga- climate change? be found at: www.futureclimate.info tion needs while safe-guarding their right to sustainable development enabling a dignified life for all peoples. This panel discusses prin- 13:00-16:00 14:15-16:15 ciples, funding channels and how to ensure Orange hall Grey room local accountability for the sources as well Talk Talk as equitable distribution of funds between countries and amongst vulnerable people Fossil fuels: “Leave it in the Ground”: within countries. The blessing that became a curse The fight for an alternative energy policy Speakers: George Monbiot, Jörg Schindler, Klaus Illum Speakers: René Schuster, Nicola Bullard, Jonathan Stevenson, Mona Bricke Organisation: Klimaforum09 15:15-18:15 Fossil fuels have allowed humanity to escape Organisation: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Blue hall the constraints of the organic economy as Energy policy is a highly contentious issue. Talk well as those of geography. They have pow- How far can political activism in the coal- World Water Movements and COP 15: ered the entire global economy, destabilized sector be transferred to other social activism Proposals and strategies for water and the climate, and brought material wealth to and how are they interconnected? What al- climate justice a minority of the world’s population while liances empower the movement for political poverty prevails in a growing majority. In this intervention? What are the limits of activism Speakers: Andrè Abreu, Maude Barlow, Luis Enrique perspective, we’ll discuss the prospects of oil in energy politics? Are actions and demands De Moura, Raffaella Cavallo, Tommaso Fattori, Marco Iob, Anne Le Strat, Rosario Lembo, Danielle and gas depletion and the transition to the in this field symbolic and which part plays Mitterand, Anil Naidoo, Riccardo Petrella. post-fossil fuel era. the social question in these acts of political intervention? Organisation: Italian Committee World Water Contract; CEVI; Blue Planet Project-Council of Canadians; France Libertè

14:15-16:15 Water is considered a tool to exploit for producing energy allegedly having a lesser Yellow room 15:15-16:15 Brown room impact on climate. The “Millennium Goals” of Talk guaranteeing access to drinking water for all Communication for Change: Talk the inhabitants of the planet through a mar- Courageous living towards the Farewell to the fossils: ket approach have been a complete failure. world you want How to get rid of fossil-fuel cars International movements for Water Justice Speakers: Vilhelm Nilsson Speakers: Mr. Jacob Lagercrantz demand to include the problem of water in Organisation: Communication for Life Organisation: Global Utmaning (Global challenge) the negotiation agenda of the Copenhagen Conference. Do you want to make a change in the world Many countries have stated that they intent but get caught up in endless debates along to phase out their fossil-fuel cars, but very the way? Who’s right? Who’s wrong? Our lan- little of concrete plans have been presented. 16:00-18:00 guage itself contains seeds of opposition. Many consumers and industries wish to con- Green hall This workshop, inspired by Non-Violent Com- tribute but they need clear political signals munication (NVC) will help you transform any and a clear phase-out plan. This seminar will Talk opposition into connection by translating present a comprehensive roadmap including Moving towards Zero Carbon and Beyond language supporting domination into a lan- legislative measures for the final phasing-out Speakers: Kim Bryan, Alex Randall of fossil-fuel cars in order to achieve the op- guage of partnership, cooperation, mutual Organisation: Centre for Alternative Technology respect and freedom. portunity for sustainability in global traffic. A new energy strategy. This presentation will feature speakers from across the field 14:15-16:15 15:15-18:15 working towards a zero carbon future and demonstrate the pratical ways in which we Green hall Red room can eliminate fossil fuels and power up our Talk Talk renewables for developed countries to be- Future Climate Engineering Solutions A New Climate Finance Compact come zero carbon by 2050. Speakers: Pernille Hagedorn-Rasmussen, Speakers: Lidy Nacpil / Fabrina Furtado, Nnimmo Brian Vad Mathiesen and others Bassey, Nohra Padilla, Steve Kretzmann, Janet Organisation: Danish Society of Engineers Redman, Liane Schalatek Organisation: Heinrich Böll Foundation North America, Future Climate – Engineering Solutions is an Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale/Mani Tese, JS international project for Engineering Associ- APMDD, Oil Change International,SEEN/Institute for Policy ations. The objective of the project is to dem- Studies, Bretton Woods Project, JubileeSouth, BankTrack

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16:15-18:15 of Indigenous Peoples in the Copenhagen 21:00-23:00 Brown room negotiations. Red room Talk Film Does UNFCC Work?: 16:15-18:15 Towards Solutions For a different climate agreement. Grey room Organisation: Friends of the Earth International Speakers: Andrea Lambrich, Hendrik Sander Three short films presenting ideas and initia- Talk Organisation: Attac Germany tives for a better energy future. Beyond Copenhagen in Solidarity The workshop presents alternatives for a global climate agreement. 17 years of UN- Speakers: Brian Keene, Nick Lunch, Claire Greensfelder and Gleb Raygorodetsky FCC and an increase of nearly 20% in global 21:00-23:00 carbon emissions, the workshop questions Organisation: Land is Life, InsightShare, IFG.org and Orange hall the Christian Fund the basic design of the international climate Music negotiations. Is the international poker game Join over 20 Indigenous People represent- ing from the Arctic to Papua New Guinea, Now and Then, Such a Cool World for reduction targets the only way to save - Txai Brasil the climate? Or has the focus on market Cameroon to Peru in a collective process ad- Organisation: Txai Brasil mechanisms, that puts “creative accounting” dressing climate change. What are the next before a real social-ecological transforma- steps after COP15? How can civil society and Txai Brasil is the composer and musician tion, arrived at a dead end? indigenous peoples come together to grow a responsible for the Carbon Free program stronger movement for change, to build resil- launching through his “Aonde o Brasil eh mais ience and inspire? Brasil” album in 2005, during COPXI Mon- 16:15-18:15 treal. Since then, Txai puts his art at service Orange hall to enhance global warming awareness and 19:00-21:00 discussion world over. Txai will present a new Talk Red room show with Bossa Nova, Samba, Jazz, Beatles The Angry Mermaid Award Ceremony: Film and world music altogether proposing a mul- An award for the worst corporate climate ticoloRed room future path. lobby group Endstation Gorleben? Speakers: Olivier Hoedeman and Paul de Clerck, Organisation: Soeren Koepke Organisation: Friends of the Earth International 21:00-24:00 Nuclear power continues to be portrayed as Green hall The corporate lobby group that is guilty of a climate-friendly form of energy. The search the worst lobbying activities undermining for a safe “permanent repository” for nuclear Film effective climate change policies or pre- waste, however, has led to the longest-last- Meat the Truth senting false solutions to address climate ing regional conflicts of German environ- Organisation: Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation change, is presented. The group is elected mentalist history. Many of the people living by the general public via online voting and This award-winning documentary is a sup- around the small village of Gorleben in North- plement to Al Gore´s Inconvenient Truth. by participants at the Copenhagen Climate ern Germany have become fervent anti-nu- summit. Marianne Thieme, MP and leader of the NL clear activists. The movement is enduring, as Party for the Animals, demonstrates how are the German government’s plans to use livestock farming de facto generates more an old saltmine as a disposal site for deadly 16:15-18:15 greenhouse gases than the transport in- atomic waste. dustry combined. The issues of the impact Yellow room of livestock farming on water shortages and Talk 21:00-23:00 the unequal distribution of food resources The Future of Climate Policy for Red room are also raised in this documentary. The Indigenous Peoples’ of North America Film screening is followed by a panel debate. Speakers: Wahleah Johns, Kandi Mossett / Loren Voices from the Central America White, Jihan Gearon, Coleen Swan, Teyekalihyos Movement of Victims Edwards Organisation: Friends of the Earth International Organisation: Indigenous Environmental Network and Black Mesa Water Coalition A series of two minute testimonies from men and women affected by climate change in As carbon trading encourages the world’s Central America, explaining the changes in biggest polluters to offset it’s carbon emis- their lives and expressing a concrete call to sions in other parts of the world, it allows the international community. business as usual on the lands of Indigenous Peoples’ in North America - expanding coal, oil, gas, and uranium development resulting in exploitation and sickness in Native com- munities. This panel will highlight key battles against business as usual and clarify the role

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10:00-12:00 Yellow room Talk New Moon Service: Ceremony for creation Speakers: Rev. Ole Skjerbæk Madsen, musicians and other pastors. Organisation: Areopagos, Climate Working Group of the National Council of Churches in Denmark (Klimagruppen i Danske Kirkers Råd) The New Moon Service is based on Christian theology of creation and stewardship in rela- tion to the environment. It inspires hope us- ing the symbolism of the moon’s increasing reflection of the sun’s light up to the darkest season of the year. Songs, meditation, re- flections and prayers for the Earth and its cli- mate lead up to a final blessing of the Earth.

10:00-12:00 Red room Talk The Implications of Climate Change for Human Migration and Displacement Speakers: To be announced Organisation: CARE International, Public Media, and the IASC Task Force on Migration and Displacement. The impacts of climate change are already causing migration and displacement. The consequences for almost all aspects of de- velopment and human security could be devastating. There may also be substantial implications for political stability. This event presents the current level of understand- ing of migration, provides case stories of migrants forced to move to Scandinavia and elsewhere, and highlights the kinds of ac- tions and policies needed now to make a dif- ference.

10:00-12:00 Green hall Talk Creating an Economy for People and Environment Speakers: To be announced Organisation: Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores y Tra- bajadoras de las Américas Open debate with trade unionists and other social movement leaders on creating an economy with jobs and climate justice. Languages: EN, ES. Copenhagen Green Life Developing Centre - Organisation: Tommy von Pein/21st-century Constructions - Photo: Tommy von Pein

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11:15-12:15 13:00-15:00 13:00-16:00 Brown room Yellow room Blue hall Talk Talk Talk Stop Wasting Food! Place-based Decarbonization Strategies: Climate Change in Southern Africa: Speakers: Selina Juul Leadership from cities and metropoles Who bears the burden? Organisation: Stop Spild Af Mad Speakers: Dr. John Byrne, Dr. Mark Alan Hughes, Speakers: Sakhile Koketso, Ms. Kulthoum Omari, Dr. Cecilia Martinez, Assemblyman Cho Agnes Babugura, Natasha Ribeiro, Ms Margaret Millions of people are throwing millions of Angula tons of good edible food in the trash every Organisation: Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Organisation: Heinrich Böll Foundation South Africa, day - while there are millions of children Climate stabilization policy under the Kyoto worldwide dying from hunger. Food waste Protocol assumes climate change is an Southern Africa suffers from extreme cli- is also bad for the environment, because economic and technological problem best mate variability and communities, with it causes an increase in CO2 emissions and handled in the global marketplace. This belief women at the forefront, have for centu- global warming. Stop Wasting Food move- in markets defines ‘good policy’ as that which ries developed strategies to adapt to its ment is founded to raise public awareness has a profitable result. This policy approach impacts - strategies that could be learned about food waste and hopefully to eliminate means a continuation of status-quo devel- from and replicated. The workshop presents food waste in Denmark. opment. This panel explores an alternative and discusses the study “Gender and Climate pathway based on place-based strategies Change in Southern Africa” focusing on gen- that rely on community action to address der differentiated vulnerability, impacts and 13:00-14:00 climate change, focusing on cities and metro- responses to climate change. Comments re- Brown room politan regions. ceived from the workshop will be included in the revised regional report. Talk Transportation Systems: 13:00-15:00 Give way for climate protection! Green hall 13:00-16:00 Speakers: Heike Aghte and Paul Beeckmans Orange hall Talk Organisation: Initiative Transport Europe 2/2: Creating an Economy for People Talk Transport is one of the biggest contributors and Environment H2O a greenhouse gas to climate change, but widely underesti- Speakers: To be announced Speakers: Jesper Theilgaard mated. Both freight transport and passenger Organisation: Klimaforum09 traffic must change substantially to achieve Organisation: Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores y Tra- bajadoras de las Américas sufficient CO2-reductions. Facing the still- growing demand for mobility worldwide, Open debate with trade unionists and other technical solutions alone won’t do anymore. social movement leaders on creating an 15:15-18:15 Our main questions: How can the need for economy with jobs and climate justice. Red room traffic be reduced? Travel patterns changed? Languages: EN, ES. Talk Transportation systems improved? What co- Marine Stewardship Council benefits can we expect? How can ideas be and the Climate turned into action? 13:00-15:00 Red room Speakers: To be announced Organisation: Landsforeningen Levende Hav Talk In 1995 the association “Living Sea Denmark” 13:00-15:00 The Yasuni-ITT Initiative Brown room started to work with “blue organic” label- Speakers: Yolanda Kakabadse and Carlos Larrea ing of fisheries. In 1999 “Marine Stewardship Talk Organisation: Yasuni-ITT Initiative group Council”, MSC, stated its certification and The Use of Renewable Energy Ecuador will maintain the crude oil in the labeling of fisheries. From day one Living Sea for a Better Future in India ITT field (840m barrels / 430m tons of CO2) have criticized MSC for not including energy Speakers: Joachim Golo Pilz indefinitely underground. This initiative pro- criteria in their 57 certified fisheries. Living Organisation: Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University poses: a) An innovative option for combating Sea, Denmark’s overall focus in the global fisheries is fisheries extreme use of oil in the Entrepreneur Joachim Golo Pilz has played global warming, by avoiding the production trawling fishery. a major role in making the Brahma Kumaris of fossil fuels in areas which are biologi- (BK) the largest single user of alternative cally and culturally sensitive; b) Protecting energy in India. He has installed solar energy the biodiversity of the Amazon region and systems for steam generation and power supporting indigenous cultures in voluntary supply in BK world headquarters in the re- isolation; c) A new energy matrix based on mote mountains of Rajasthan and in BK cen- renewable resources. ters all over India. Presently he is working on designing a 1 MW solar thermal power plant.

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The Boycott - Organisation: Kathryn Blume - Photo: Debra Lewis, © Kathryn Blume

15:30-17:30 As Will Steger Foundation delegates, we are of green house gases is to introduce a global Green hall Midwest U.S. youth advocates striving to lead taxation on carbon dioxide emissions. Such our generation by educating and empowering taxation should rely on countries counting Talk climate action through local collaboration and for the major consumption of fossile fuel. Tibet Third Pole - Nomads: global partnership. We have come to Copen- The difficulties in introducing a taxation is Climate change and human rights hagen seeking a global treaty that jumpstarts well known, and exceptional measures are (film and debate) clean energy opportunities and reduces necessary. What seems difficult and impos- Speakers: Tenzin Norbu and Choekyi climate change impacts in our region. Come sible in 2009 might have changes in 2012. Organisation: Tibet Third Pole Network meet us and other youth delegates as we dis- cuss the importance of our region to national and international negotiations. 17:00-19:00 16:00-18:00 Green hall Yellow room Talk 16:30-17:30 Talk Danish trade unions and solutions Blue hall Expedition Copenhagen: to climate change Why a Midwest U.S. youth delegation? Talk Speakers: To be announced Speakers: Reed Aronow, Aurora Conley, Chris Detjen, A Global Tax on Carbon Dioxide Organisation: Klimaforum09 / Danish Trade Union Danielle Ostafinski, Maia Dedrick, Sarah Mullkoff, Speakers: mr Carl von Essen Solutions to climate change are highly about Holly Jones, Jamie Racine, Jamie Horter, Chalie Organisation: Global Utmaning (Global challenge) Nevarez, Megan Constans, and Liana Balinsky-Baker practical work and thus closely connected to One way of fighting the escalating emissions job creation schemes. Danish trade unions Organisation: Will Steger Foundation

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will take the debate of green jobs as a solu- 20.00-21.00 as people in the industrialized countries tion to climate change and a way out of the Yellow room without destroying the planet?« And do they economic crisis. really want to? Film Lost in Palm Oil 17:30-18:30 Organisation: Friends of the Earth International 20:00-24:00 Orange hall What is the real cost of palm oil plantations Green hall in Indonesia? Does palm oil deserve a ‘green’ Talk Music reputation? This documentary investigates Growth is good! how the quickly-expanding cultivation of CradlePeople: Speakers: Michael Braungart Indonesian palm oil contributes to global Ideas at work Organisation: Klimaforum09 / Cradle to Cradle warming and how rainforests are destroyed Organisation: CradlePeople “How many environmentalists do you know by a rapacious palm oil industry. Although Workshops, networking and entertainment! who say growth is good?,” asks Michael many forest-dependent people are being Come celebrate the presence of man on Braungart. “We celebrate growth. Abun- evicted from their land, and seeing their riv- earth and experience design that contrib- dance is something we want. Our idea is to ers and water supplies polluted, some local ute positively to the human footprint on the make production so clean there’s nothing left communities are successfully resisting palm planet. CradlePeople invite you to meet the to regulate.” This, he notes, is extremely ap- oil plantations. people who are making Cradle2Cradle ideas pealing to people of all political persuasions, come true, see the projects in progress, and from those who love the environment to contribute with your own ideas. At the event those who want commerce free of regula- 20:30-21:30 there will be a celebrity word battle, com- tion. Red room petitions - win a Think Chair - and plenty of networking. Film The Ancestry Prize 19:00-20:30 Organisation: Cameroon Vision Trust 21:30-23:00 Red room This short film talks about deforestation Red room Film practices at the Mount Cameroon Biodiver- Film Breakthrough Advanced Free sity Region by local people and it offers solu- By the Frozen Rivers Energy Technologies tions to counter act this problem. Organisation: Isak Kleist Organisation: The Orion Project An informative film describing the vital sigini- Four video introductions to The Orion Project 21:00-21:30 ficance of Greenland’s ice sheet to Green- - an organization created to transform the land’s ocean-territories’ ecological system current energy, environmental and social cri- Orange hall and thus hunting and fishing areas. Also sis into a world of sustainability and enlight- Music focusing on Greenland’s economy and cul- ened abundance. World’s End - Darker Side of LIFE ture, and Denmark’s political and economic Organisation: LIVENATURE interests in Greenland. Presenting new op- Music and lyrics on the subject of climate portunities and challenges facing the Arctic. 19:00-21:00 change, performed by LIVENATURE. The Depicting scenes of nature from the north- Yellow room project is based on the expressionist poem ernmost parts of Greenland the film aims to Film “World’s End” (Weltende) by the Berlin author clarify the global implications of the dimin- They Have Sold the Lungs of the World Jakob van Hoddis (1887 - 1942) with the fa- ishing ice in the Arctic. Organisation: Social Elephant mous line: “along the coast, the papers say, the flood is rising.” The poem is painting a In 2003, 5% of the Peruvian rainforest had grim picture of what mankind might be facing 22:00-24:00 been concessioned to a series of foreign if global warming alarmingly continues. companies with the purpose of extracting oil Orange hall and gas. In 2007, this figure had increased to Music 67%. The film is a portrayal of the dilemma 21:00-22:00 Somos una Venezuela the Amazonian natives are confronted with. Yellow room Organisation: The Embassy of the Bolivarian A kaleidoscopic journey which follows the oil Republic of Venezuela throughout the fragmented Peru as well as Film Somos una Venezuela (We are one Venezu- the fundamental changes that follow in its Meat World: China ela). Music and dance from the region of Lara wake. Organisation: Brighter Green in Venezuela. Folkloric music played with tra- Filmed in fascinating, varied, and some- ditional Venezuelan instruments, accompa- times unsettling locations in China, Brighter nied by a dance presentation. Green´s »Meat World: China« is trying to answer a big question: »Can people in the developing world eat as much meat and dairy

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10:00-12:00 11:15-12:15 17.12.09 Grey room Blue hall Talk Talk 10:00-11:00 Agriculture in U.S. Climate Change Policy Breaking the Curve: Politics for a Sustainable Climate Red room Speakers: Steven Suppan, Jim Kleinschmit, Karen Hansen-Kuhn, and others Speakers: mr Staffan Lestadius Talk Organisation: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Organisation: Global Utmaning (Global challenge) Rethink the Future (IATP) It is high time to break the upward curve of Speakers: Jonas Eriksson This session reviews the primary legislative C02 in the atmosphere. By 2020 we should Organisation: AwareHouse proposals for including agriculture in U.S. see clear results from radical political deci- A glimpse of the best ideas, projects and climate policy. Among the topics covered are sions and incentives for a sustainable global people working towards a better world. The the points of political tension between US future if we are to counter global warming. speaker Jonas Eriksson will take you on an agricultural and environmental interests; Among the political decisions there should inspirational journey all over the world to the trading of carbon emission credits and be a concerted and major effort to assist in a show the solutions, both existing and those offset credits in relation to agriculture; the massive development of sustainable agricul- planned for the future. The aim of the lec- U.S. carbon derivatives market; and alterna- ture and forestry in the developing world. ture is to show that we have the capacity to tive proposals to the cap and trade legislative change the world and that millions of people framework for agriculture. are already doing it. 13:00-15:00 Blue hall 10:00-12:00 Talk 10:00-11:00 Blue hall Green Jobs Now Green hall Talk Speakers: To be announced Talk Climate Wars and Refugees Organisation: Campaign against Climate Change Sustainable Energy: Speakers: To be announced A Green Charter for Green Jobs - an emergen- Why nuclear energy is not an alternative Organisation: No Borders cy programme coordinating the international Speakers: Rogier Bleys Maayke Damen Jesse Klaver Climate change is now the ultimate Shock movement for green jobs. Peer de Rijk and Awe, the new spectacle. With global Organisation: WISE recession, wars for resources, peak oil and Nuclear energy is having a renaissance. techno-fixes; the threat of climate change is 13:00-15:00 Claims that it is CO2 free and provides clean being used to legitimise everything from in- Green hall energy are not the case. Share the argu- creased surveillance to repressive migration ments against nuclear energy, the risks in- policies, and war. Talk volved, the costs and long term effects. Gender, Vulnerability and Climate Change Responses 11:00-12:00 Speakers: Rebecca Salazar, Sandra Gúzman, Ingrid 10:00-12:00 Yellow room Spiller and others Green hall Talk Organisation: Heinrich Böll Foundation, Director Regional office for Central America/Mexico/Cuba, Talk Desertification and Governments need to find ways to mitigate Traditional Communities: Popular Movement Cooperation for climate change, and socially responsible solu- Experience in Bahia, Brazil a Sustainable Transition tions to adapt to the upcoming problems. Es- Speakers: To be announced Speakers: Julio Cesar de Sá da Rocha pecially the most vulnerable parts of societ- Organisation: MJV/Friends of the Earth Sweden, Föreningen/ Organisation: Institute for Management of Water and Cli- ies need sustainable support. Climate change mate (INGÁ) at Bahia Association Aktivism.info influences sectors in which primarily women A discussion on how to cooperate to support The international community has long rec- are active, thus modifying the productive and food and energy sovereignty as well as for ognized that desertification is a major eco- social relations between men and women. solutions to finance, debt and fossil fuel war nomic, social and environmental problem of The workshop presents a gender approach to issues and a constructive programme for concern to many countries. The United Na- adaptation that is of vital importance due to sustainable transition. With popular move- tions Convention on Desertification (1993) women’s crucial role in society. ments with a local base and need to address adopted a Plan of Action to Combat Deserti- both daily life and global issues. With FOEI, fication. Unfortunately, despite this efforts, Via Campesina, and World March of Women the problem of land degradation in arid and as well as indigenous, trade union and peace semi-arid areas has intensified. As a result, organizations. State of Bahia, Brazil, has taken measures against desertification with open dialogue with traditional communities.

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13:00-15:00 unique opportunities Weather Broadcasters 15:00-18:00 Yellow room around the World have. Green hall Talk Talk Join the International Movement 13:00-16:00 Ecoliteracy: against Canada’s Tar Sands Crucial Principles for radical Change Brown room Speakers: Maude Barlow, George Poitras Mikisew, Speakers: Karen Blincoe and Jon Rae Talk Eriel Derenger, Jess Worth, Clayton Thomas-Muller Organisation: Schumacher College and the Organisation: Indigenous Environmental Network Eating the Planet Transition Network and Rainforest Action Network Speakers: Lasse Bruun and Barbara Romanowicz We need new skills that enable us to act ef- Recognized as the biggest environmental Organisation: Compassion In World Farming fectively. Fundamental to this is the ability to crime in history, Canada’s Tar sands cover a The growth of livestock production and its understand ecosystems, society and people landmass 86,000km2 and can be seen from significant climate impacts will be the next in a holistic context which mirrors the inter- outer space. Second only to the Amazon in major issue of international debate. A film dependence found in the natural world. This terms loss of forest every day, the tar sands and expert panel discussion will examine session will explore some of the elements are fuelling the global climate crisis. Climate whether humane and sustainable food sys- of an eco literate world view focusing upon justice activists from Canada, USA and Europe tems can solve climate, water and food secu- concepts as self-organisation, resilience, share ideas and strategies to pressure the rity challenges. Languages: EN, DA. connectivity and adaptation and share expe- nation of Canada to shut down the Tar Sands. riences of how complementary approaches to eco literacy can be applied to support com- munities in a transition. 13:00-15:00 13:00-16:00 Red room Grey room Talk Talk 15:15-18:15 Don't Nuke the Climate Effects ofC limate Change on Water Blue hall Resources of a Mediterranean Country: Talk Speakers: Sabine Bock Peer de Rijk Claire The Spanish case Greensfelder Vladimir Sliviak Eslihan Tumer Communication: Charlotte Meijeon Michael marriotte Regine Richter Speakers: Santiago Martín Barajas A Key to climate and social change Organisation: Ecologistas en Acción Organisation: WISE Speakers: Corrado Clini, Mario Acunzo, Saleemul The nuclear industry is using the issue of cli- Higher average temperatures in Spain as a Huq, Thomas Tufte, Chris Morry / Warren Feek mate change as a vehicle to win political and result of climate change are causing a signifi- Organisation: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization and financial support for its dirty and dying sec- cant reduction in available water resources. Roskilde University: The Communication for Development Capacity Building Partnership tor. Large costs and negative impacts make Based on an assessment of different theo- nuclear energy an obstacle to the necessary ries, Ecologistas en Acción, believes that the This workshop explores the role of communi- development of effective, clean and afford- reduction in water resources is caused by a cation for development in light of the unique able energy sources – both in developing and rise in temperatures. However, the Span- challenges climate change poses at both the industrialised countries. Speakers from India, ish Government is hardly taking into account macro and the micro level. Identifying and Germany, Italy, USA and South Africa will these reductions in resources in the hydro- effectively communicating suitable adapta- analyse developments and call for action. logical planning documentation being pre- tion and mitigation options is particularly pared for the coming years, just considering relevant in developing countries, where com- a 7% reduction in resources. munication plays a strategic role in reducing 13:00-15:00 vulnerability. Different perspectives will be Orange hall discussed in an open debate highlighting the 15:00-18:00 importance of knowledge and information Talk Orange hall sharing. Climate Broadcasters Talk Speakers: Jesper Theilgaard Are you getting the deal you came for? Organisation: Klimaforum09 / ClimateBroadcasters 16:00-18:00 Speakers: George Monbiot Weather Broadcasters are popular, have high Grey room Organisation: Klimaforum09 degrees of credibility and scientific under- Talk standing and are well-placed to communi- Due to the lack of progress at COP15 Klimafo- Popular Movement Cooperation cate information about climate change. Thus rum09 invites Heads of State and ask them, against Repression, Part 2 Weather Broadcasters has a unique chance if they are getting the climate change deal Speakers: Tord Björk and others to engage themselves as “Climate Broadcast- they came for? Organisation: MJV/Friends of the Earth Sweden, Klimakollek- ers” by actively communicating the science tivet/Climate Collective Denmark, Föreningen/Association of climate change and its impacts, adaptation Aktivism.info and mitigation needs as they develop.Climate How can popular movements cooperate Broadcasters Network – Europe speak about against repression of summit protests and in the communicative possibilities and the general? Experiences of repression against

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climate summit protesters so far and what 20:00-22:00 to do about it in short and long term. How Orange hall 18.12.09 can solidarity work develop between popular Music movements both locally, nationally and inter- nationally. How do both soft and hard forms Jeg er vejret/I’m the Weather 10:00-12:00 of repression interact, and how can popular Organisation: Jesper Theilgaard and Pernille Sejlund Green hall movements cooperate to stop repression. The Danish meteorologist Jesper Theilgaard Talk focuses, in short factual presentations, on climate problems. Between the oral English Denmark - C02 Neutral Pioneer 16:15-18:15 presentations, a musical climate work in Speakers: Michael Søgaard Jørgensen, Per Clausen, Brown room short movements will be performed for the Stig Melgaard, Gunnar Boye first time by the Danish composer Pernille Organisation: IDA (Ingeniørforeningen), Enhedslisten, NOAH, Talk Louise Sejlund. The electronic/acoustic cli- OVE (Organisationen for Vedvarende Energi) Soulfood: mate work is performed by professional sing- To promote a global conversion to a CO2 neu- The basics of spiritually enriched food ers and musicians. An evocative ping-pong tral society it is important that industrialized Speakers: To be announced between music and words. countries show by example that a high stan- Organisation: Vegetarisk Lørdag dard of living is still possible while achieving Heal the world by healing yourself! Vegetari- this goal. Many proposals to the conversation anism, simplicity and spirituality go well to- 21:00-23:00 in Denmark exist, coming from politicians, gether and form the substantial alternative Green hall NGO’s and trade unions. We bring these pro- posals up for discussion in the workshop. to the unrestricted production and consumer Theatre lifestyle. This workshop will explore the ba- The Sea’s Mother sics of a spiritually conscious vegetarian life- Organisation: The Silamiut Theatre style both in theory and practice. 10:00-12:00 Through storytelling the authors invites us Blue hall into two enlightening histories. For example Talk Makka tells us: “The Holy Feasts are giving 19:00-20:00 Agrarian Reform in North Western to the people” It’s the story of a family living Red room Post-industrial Society in a deserted place kept occupied with basic Film elements: finding food, eating and sleep- Speakers: Henrik Kuske Schou Urban Legend - A documentary ing. Makka shows us the significance of what Organisation: Frie Bønder – Levende Land /Via Campesina Denmark Organisation: Paths to Sustainability Coalition feasts can and do to us as human beings. Urban Legend is an enthusiastic journey to How to create climate and social justice the heart of the environmental revolution through replacing industrial farming with in our world’s ‘greenest’ cities. State-of-the- 22:00-23:00 sustainable small-scale farming and resettle- art transportation systems, breathtaking Red room ment of the countryside. Frie Bønder (Free Peasants) of Denmark presents a concrete parks, clever recycling methods, and most Film important of all: social solidarity. Part of model to handle the climate and environ- Poison Fire: mental crisis by means of re-establishing the the documentary series “WORLD: The Next Oil and Gas Abuse in Nigeria Generation”, created by prize-winning Israeli communities of peasants and smallholders. Organisation: Friends of the Earth International journalist Nitzan Horowitz, for Israel’s Chan- In particular, Frie Bønder invites discussion nel 10. Horowitz was recently elected to the After fifty years of oil exploitation the Niger on the common role of peasants of the south Knesset (Israeli parliament), and is on the Delta is an environmental disaster zone. Mil- and the north in solving climate problems. Israeli delegation to Copenhagen. lions of tons of crude oil have been spilled and gas burn-off produces toxic substanc- es equal to 18 million cars. The Community 10:00-12:00 20:30-22:00 fights back to win over Shell in court. Poison Red room Red room Fire follows a team of local activists to im- Talk poverished communities, creeks and man- NO to COAL Campaign: A Case Study Film grove forests full of crude oil, well-heads Poison Fire leaking gas, and to Shell’s AGM in the Neth- Speakers: To be announced Organisation: Environmental Rights Action erlands. Organisation: Life and Environment – Israeli Union of Environmental NGOs The documentary deals with the negative impacts of gas flaring in the Niger Delta Re- The construction of a new coal powered gion of Nigeria on local people and the envi- power plant in Israel is estimated to increase ronment. Poison Fire was produced by Envi- its GHG emissions by 10.5%. Environmental ronmental Rights Action. It will be presented NGOs used a variety of strategies, from dem- by the Project Officer in charge of Extractive onstrations, through celebrity-led PR cam- Industries and Environmental Justice. paigns to addressing planning committees, lobbying and legal action. These activities

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were coordinated by means of a coalition of 19:00-24:00 Bateria Senzala organizations, all focused on impacting Isra- Orange hall Huge bateria presenting 50 drummers who el’s energy and climate policy and promoting Music & talk play sweaty samba-rhytms for their dancers multi-stakeholder policy processes. Closing Ceremony and us! Organisation: Klimaforum09 13:00-14:00 Guest speakers and live entertainment: Red room Evaluation of the past two weeks Highlights of Klimaforum09 Talk Next step? Bioregionalism Speakers: Henning Hervik and Poul Erik Pedersen Mames Babegenush/ Organisation: Permakultur Denmark Get klezmer attacked! We will present the analysis tools for biore- The music of Danish klezmer orchestra Mam- gionalism. Based hereon we will carry out es Babegenush is both manic and oozes mel- workshops where the participants can dis- ancholy, travelling from out of control sirbas KLEZMOFOBIA cuss how they can implement bioregional to the saddest of waltzes. The band started the award winning Danish klezmer orches- strategies in their home regions. out playing primarily at jewish parties such tra - takes music to places it has never been. as weddings, bar mitzvahs and Hanukahs. With an energetic mixture of tradition and Early on Mames Babegenush invented the renewal, the orchestra has already reached 13:00-15:00 concept of “klezmerattacks”; spontaneous a large audience. Cheerful melancholy in Yid- Green hall surprise-concerts for unsuspecting people, dish, a powerful jumble of old klezmer ele- Talk ie. outdoors at a public places, inside cafés, ments, combined with modern rock beats is bars or parties. www.mames.dk Taking the Movement Forward: what makes the uniqueness of the orchestra. Post-COP15 mobilisations Speakers: Nnimmo Bassey, Ricardo Navarro, Henry Saragih, Jihan Gearon, Amparo Miciano Organisation: Vegetarisk Lørdag 15:15-17:15 Organisation: Friends of the Earth International, La Via Campesina, World March of Women, Indigenous Heal the world by healing yourself! Vegetari- Green hall Environmental Network anism, simplicity and spirituality go well to- Talk gether and form the substantial alternative Testimonies of affected communities and Building a Global Climate Campaign: to the unrestricted production and consumer campaigners will make the links between lo- Where does the movement go after lifestyle. This workshop will explore the ba- cal to global struggles for climate justice. The COP15? struggle to combat climate change including sics of a spiritually conscious vegetarian life- Speakers: To be announced mobilisation and resistance against an unjust style both in theory and practice. economic system, the promotion of fossil Organisation: Campaign against Climate Change fuels, carbon offset projects and other disas- The workshop focuses on forms of interna- trous policies are being met with a powerful 15:15-16:45 tional coordination, global demonstrations, transformative agenda that will help us move Red room the worldwide movement against coal, and on COP15 and the COP15 Climate Emergency towards more sustainable societies. Now is Talk network. the time to get involved and take action. Climate Justice and Alternative Development Models in Bolivia 13:00-15:00 Speakers: Christian Domínguez, Ramiro Galindo, 19:00-21:00 Félix Layme, Elizabeth Peredo Blue hall Green hall Organisation: The Bolivian Social Movement Platform Talk on Climate Change Theatre Equity and justice in a climate The Bolivian Social Movement Platform on Planetary Pledge Pyramid: change agreement Climate Change will present the recommen- The grand finale Speakers: To be announced dations of a Climate Justice Tribunal sit- Organisation: The People Speak Organisation: PACJA (Pan African Climate Justice Alliance) ting with an analysis of cases, evidence and What would you do to save the planet, if you “victims” as well as ecological “Debtors”. In Workshop about equity and climate change. had the 300 million people on Facebook to addition to demanding justice, Bolivian social help you, and 1.5 billion Euros to spend? Join movement leaders will present inspiring ex- the Planetary Pledge Pyramid scheme at amples of alternative development models 15:00-17:00 www.pledgepyramid.org, and we can ask that based on millennia-old Andean and Amazoni- question for real... tonight, when everyone Blue hall an ways of life and knowledge. Language: ES. gathers live and online at Klimaforum09 for a Talk dramatic, democratic, decision-making game- Hare Krishna: Mantrameditation session show where the audience will propose ideas Speakers: To be announced and vote on the ultimate collective action.

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Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Seven Meters Nomad Project Zero Carbon Britain Countdown to Copenhagen Organisation: Eco-net - Art In Defense Organisation: Danish Center for Culture Organisation: Centre for Alternative Organisation: DanChurchAid, Diakonia, of Humanism (AIDOH) and Development Technology Charity Limited (CAT) Church of Sweden and Others

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Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Copenhagen Green Life Roadmap to Extinction: Consequences of Green Church Developing Centre Are Humans Disappearing? Climate Change: Organisation: Danish Church Council Climate Organisation: 21st-Century-Constructions Organisation: Global Justice Ecology Project A Worldwide Church Response Group in collaboration with the Energy Service Organisation: ACT - Action by Churches 07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 Together 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 07-18/12/2009 Blue hall Foyer 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Purple hall Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition 10:00-24:00 Conversations with the Earth The Lacandon Jungle Purple hall Stand/Exhibition Supergas Biogas in Tanzania Organisation: Conversations with Organisation: Na Bolom Denmark Stand/Exhibition the Earth (CWE) Countdown to Copenhagen: Organisation: Dantan Supergas 07-18/12/2009 Time for Climate Justice 07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Organisation: APRODEV Network and others 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 blue hall Purple hall Blue hall Stand/Exhibition 07-18/12/2009 Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Transforming the Human Spirit 10:00-24:00 The Balancing Act Lotus Pavilion Organisation: Sokka Gakkai International Purple hall Organisation: Eco-net/ Art In Defense Organisation: Lotus Pavilion Stand/Exhibition of Humanism (AIDOH) 07-18/12/2009 BioRegional 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Development Group: 07-18/12/2009 Foyer 10:00-24:00 One Planet Communities 10:00-24:00 Blue hall Stand/Exhibition Organisation: BioRegional Development Purple hall Stand/Exhibition Borneo: Group Stand/Exhibition Yellow Dirt: Land Development and the 07-18/12/2009 Ecovillage in Northern Norway Dilemmas and High Heels Forestry Industry Organisation: Eco-Village in Lofoten Organisation: Yellow Dirt Organisation: DANIDA 10:00-24:00 Purple hall 07-18/12/2009 Stand/Exhibition 07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Consciousness and Climate 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:0 Purple hall Blue hall Foyer/Purple hall Organisation: Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Free Peasants The Last Walk in the Forest Carbon Market Crimes: 07-18/12/2009 Organisation: Free Peasants - Alive Country A photo essay 10:00-24:00 Organisation: Carbon Trade Watch, 07-18/12/2009 Purple hall 07-18/12/2009 Transnational Institute 10:00-24:00 Stand/Exhibition 10:00-24:00 Foyer Purple hall 13-18/12/2009 Climate Sustainability Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition 10:00-24:00 PLATFORM (CSP) Climate Capsule: Vulnerable: Øksnehallen Organisation: Centre for Environment The Maldives and Development (CED) An Art Installation Stand/Exhibition Organisation: Bluepeace The 350 Baobab Trees Organisation: Friends of the Earth 07-18/12/2009 International Organisation: 350.org 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Purple hall 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 07-18/12/2009 Foyer Stand/Exhibition 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 Purple hall Stand/Exhibition foyer Centre for Sustainable Habitat Mean Sea Level Organisation: Centre for Sustainable Habitat Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Global Climate Campaign Organisation: Center for Science 350 Photo Mosaic and Environment Organisation: Global Climate Campaign Organisation: 350.org

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07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 Purple hall Purple hall Purple hall Purple hall

Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Heinrich Böll Stiftung Footprint Diary: INFORSE Sustainable Energy: Earth Journalism Award Organisation: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung with Start a Change Reaction Solutions from NGOs Organisation: Internews Projekt Management, Internationale Organisation: IBIS/Footprint Diary Organisation: International Network for Klimapolitik and International Climate Policy Sustainable Energy

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07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 10-11/12/2009 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 Purple hall Purple hall Purple hall Purple hall

Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Climate Justice: Permaculture International Transition Towns and Green Household Southern Voices Organisation: Permaculture Int. Green Forum Organisation: Jubilee South Organisation: Transition Towns and 11-14/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 Green Forum 10:00-24:00 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Blue hall Purple hall 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Stand/Exhibition Purple hall Stand/Exhibition 10:00-24:00 Thisaigal Tamil Youth Group Purple hall Stand/Exhibition Schumacher Collage Organisation: Thisaigal Tamilsk Vessel for Collecting Algae Organisation: Schumacher Collage Stand/Exhibition Ungdomsforening Organisation: Kunst - Skjerning.com Vegetarian Saturday 07-18/12/2009 Organisation: Vegetarian Saturday 12-13/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 Purple hall 07-18/12/2009 Purple hall Purple hall Stand/Exhibition 10:00-24:00 Stand/Exhibition Purple hall Stand/Exhibition Women and Climate Change Organic Climate-Food La Via Campesina Organisation: Soroptimist International Stand/Exhibition Organisation: The Danish Vegetarian Organisation: La Via Campesina WISE Info Nucleair Association 07-18/12/2009 Organisation: WISE 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 12-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Purple hall 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Blue hall Purple hall Stand/Exhibition 10:00-24:00 Purple hall Stand/Exhibition Our Homes: Our climate Stand/Exhibition Environment Point Organisation: The Climate Movement of Stand/Exhibition Worst-Case Scenarios Copenhagen Denmark Ya Basta Association Organisation: Extreme Design Lab: Eriko Matsumura and Andreas Vinther Mølgaard Organisation: Miljøpunkt Bispebjerg, Organisation: Ya Basta Association, Italy Brønshøj-Husum 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 Purple hall 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 Orange hall 10:00-24:00 Stand/Exhibition Blue hall Purple hall The Danish Association of Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Sustainable Communities The House for Returned FOE France Banner Youths in the Island Nation Organisation: The Danish Association of Refugees Organisation: Mobilisation and Communication Les Amis de la Terre – Friends Sustainable Communities Organisation: ADRA Denmark of Tuvalu of the Earth France Organisation: My Blog while on the Island 07-18/12/2009 09-16/12/2009 10:00-24:00 13-18/12/2009 07-18/12/2009 10:00-24:00 10:00-24:00 Purple hall Purple hall 10:00-24:00 Purple hall Purple hall Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Eco-Friendly Buildings and Bangladesh: Energy Saving Indigenous Environmental Agriculture and Climate The Ground Zero of Climate Network Change: Organisation: The National Association Impact of Organic Construction Organisation: Indigenous Environmental Real problems, alternative Organisation: Shapatahik and EquituBD Network solutions 07-18/12/2009 09-18/12/2009 Organisation: NOAH - Friends of the Earth DK, 10:00-24:00 13-19/12/2009 ReflexionR ural Argentina, Econexus UK and 10:00-24:00 Purple hall 10:00-24:00 Biofuelwatch UK Foyer Øksnehallen Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition 07-18/12/2009 The Organic National Tibetan Nomads Under Threat GeoDome 10:00-24:00 Association Organisation: Association for a Free Tibet/ Organisation: 350.org Purple hall Organisation: The Organic National Tibet Third Pole Association Stand/Exhibition 14-18/12/2009 Organisation of Non-Profit 10-10/12/2009 10:00-24:00 Housing in Denmark 07-18/12/2009 19:00-23:00 10:00-24:00 Purple hall Organisation: Organisation of Non-Profit Brown room Purple hall Stand/Exhibition Housing in Denmark Stand/Exhibition Stand/Exhibition Earthcoin Adaptation: Organisation: Earthcoin Persistent Energy It’s your call Organisation: The Organisation for Organisation: A Barca: Brazilian Actions Persistent Energy

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