Manchester Climate Forum

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Climate Change: It's time to prepare
March 1st 2008 9.45 to 4.45
Central Hall, Oldham St, Manchester
Timetable


Main Hall Lounge Room 20 Chapel
10.20 Gender and Climate Change; Women and Children first? Climate Science for Beginners
Corporate Strategy on Climate Change: More than just Greenwash? How (far) do we go in localising our economies?
11.20 Keynote speech by Professor Roy Alexander
"Ashton Hayes: Lessons learned, challenges ahead"
 no sessions
12.10 to 1.00 -Lunch-
1.00What role for your moorland wilderness?Manchester City Council's Climate Change StrategyNuclear: Should it be part of the UK's energy mix?Public Speaking for Beginners
2.00 Transport and Climate Change: local problems, local solutions The Climate Bill- what next? No way to save a planet- movement building around Climate Change Multifaith Panel
3.00 Aviation and Manchester: joined at the hip? &
(in the back of the hall)
Trade Unions and Climate Change
Food and Climate Change Media and Climate Change Climate Change versus Development
4.00 Final session: brainstorming and forming action groups on where we live, work, worship etc.

this programme is, sadly, subject to change at the last moment!