Register at 10.0 for a 10.30 start.

What will it take for us to win a clean, fair energy system?

With climate chaos accelerating everywhere, the need to rapidly slash our energy demand in the Global North and develop a clean energy system (not just clean electrical power, but elimination of fossil fuels from transport, buildings and industry too) could not be more evident.  Yet the UK government is staking vast sums of public money on shoring up the fossil fuel and biomass industries with carbon capture and storage and fossil hydrogen, along with unviable, dangerous and environmentally devastating nuclear power, inextricably linked to the nuclear weapons industry.

A clean and fair energy system is technically feasible - the obstacles in our way are political, in the widest sense of the word. And our response must go way beyond just identifying what that energy system could look like - though this is vital work too, and is work that we need to do for ourselves with our scientist and our workplace allies - but we must look to the kind of inclusive movement that can force the needed changes: the alliances that need to be built, the connections that need to be made, and the strategies and tactics that (maybe in combination) give us the best chance of winning.

At this event, we aim to bring together campaigners from a wide range of areas (trade unionists, climate campaigners and activists, scientists and other experts) to build a strategy that identifies the components of a decarbonised energy system that works for everyone, and the action we will need to take to achieve it.  We will aim to have practical plans to be followed up that can both win popular support and generate the pressure needed for change.

Speakers tbc in the new year.

PRACTICAL DETAILS

Register at 10.0 for a 10.30 start.

For this and any other queries, please contact ellenrobottom@hotmail.com

Please note that this in-person event was originally scheduled for 9th November 2024. If you have bought a ticket and you can't make the new date (1st February)  you can apply for a refund at ellebrobottom@hotmail.com