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Date |
Start |
Finish |
Location |
Details |
Mon 27 Sep |
12:45 |
14:00 |
Climate Clinic @ The Cube |
Fringe: |
Low Cost and Low Carbon: Delivering Sustainable Transport in an Age of Austerity |
Host: |
Greener Journeys, LowCVP and Transport Times |
Speakers: |
Lord Adonis, Former Secretary of State for Transport; Mike Cooper, Managing Director, ARRIVA UK Bus; Edmund King, President, Automobile Association; Stephen Joseph, Executive Director, Campaign for Better Transport |
Chair: |
Professor David Begg, Executive Director, Transport Times |
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Mon 27 Sep |
18:00 |
19:15 |
Climate Clinic @ The Cube |
Fringe: |
Homes fit for the future? |
Host: |
WWF-UK, NEA, PRASEG, CHPA, UKBCSE and the Micropower Council |
Sponsor: |
Calor |
Speakers: |
Dr Alan Whitehead MP; Simon McWhirter, Campaign Director, The Great British Refurb; David Green, Chief Executive, UKBCSE; Paul Blacklock, Head of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, Calor |
Chair: |
National Journalist (tbc) |
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Mon 27 Sep |
20:00 |
21:30 |
Beecham Room, Radisson Hotel (in zone - security pass required) |
Fringe: |
An "In Conversation" interview with a Senior Labour Politician |
Host: |
Climate Clinic |
Speakers: |
tbc |
Chair: |
tbc |
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Mon 27 Sep |
21:30 |
24:00 |
Beecham Room, Radisson Hotel (in zone - security pass required) |
Fringe: |
A Late Night Reception with Special Guests |
Host: |
Climate Clinic and BOND |
Speakers: |
tbc |
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Tue 28 Sep |
12:45 |
14:00 |
Climate Clinic @ The Cube |
Fringe: |
Banking for the Great Transition: Reform to achieve a Low Carbon, High Well-Being Economy? |
Host: |
nef and Greenpeace |
Speakers: |
Rt Hon Ed Miliband, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; Tony Greenham, Head of Finance and Business, nef; Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, The Guardian |
Chair: |
Andrew Simms, Policy Director, nef |
Description: |
Finance, its type and availability, will make or break new economic sectors. In the midst of a recession and in the face of new challenges like climate change and the peak and decline of global oil production, the UK must manage a great transition to a new kind of economy. There is ample potential for the switch to a genuinely clean energy system, while the failure to do so will leave our energy security vulnerable and could add billions to the UK’s trade deficit. The Great Transition to a new economy calls for root and branch reform of finance. Billions has been spent bailing out the banks, yet they are still failing to meet the needs of the productive economy. We have a once-in a lifetime opportunity to reform the provision of finance in the UK, making banks serve the needs of their customers, and the thousands of small businesses that pound for pound deliver more value to the UK economy while also unlocking the investment needed to kick-start new low-carbon economy for the UK.
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Tue 28 Sep |
18:00 |
19:15 |
Climate Clinic @ The Cube |
Fringe: |
Is Climate Change THE Global Justice Cause of the Century? |
Host: |
UNICEF UK and Christian Aid |
Speakers: |
Baroness Glenys Kinnock; David Bull, Director, UNICEF UK; Christine Durrance, UNISON |
Chair: |
David Aaronovitch, The Times |
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Tue 28 Sep |
20:00 |
21:30 |
USDAW Marquee, Room 1, Manchester Central (secure zone - security pass required) |
Fringe: |
Green Jobs - Investing in Britain's Economic Recovery |
Host: |
UKBCSE, WWF-UK, Greenpeace, NEA, nef, CHPA, PRASEG and Micropower Council |
Speakers: |
Yvette Cooper MP (tbc); Frances O'Grady, Deputy General Secretary, TUC; David Nussbaum, Chief Executive, WWF-UK; Peter Bance, Chief Executive Officer, Ceres Power |
Chair: |
National Journalist (tbc) |
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Wed 29 Sep |
08:00 |
09:00 |
Climate Clinic @ The Cube |
Fringe: |
Labour and Climate Change: Maintaining Leadership |
Host: |
Green Alliance, WWF-UK, Greenpeace and RSPB |
Speakers: |
Emily Thornberry MP, Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change (invited); David Nussbaum, Chief Executive, WWF UK; Dr Matthew Lockwood, Associate Director, IPPR; Michael Jacobs, former special Asdviser to Number 10 (invited); Lillian Greenwood, MP for Nottingham South |
Chair: |
Matthew Spencer, Director, Green Alliance |
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Wed 29 Sep |
12:45 |
14:00 |
Climate Clinic @ The Cube |
Fringe: |
Changing Rainforests: Can UK Politics protect both Species AND CLimate? |
Host: |
RSPB and WWF-UK |
Speakers: |
Rt Hon Ed Miliband, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; Mark Avery, Director of Conservation, RSPB; David Nussbaum, Chief Executive, WWF-UK |
Chair: |
TBC |
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Wed 29 Sep |
18:00 |
19:15 |
Climate Clinic @ The Cube |
Fringe: |
Energy Investment and Social Justice |
Host: |
NEA, CHPA, nef, Greenpeace, UKBCSE, WWF-UK, PRASEG and Micropower Council |
Speakers: |
Dr Robert Gross, UK Energy Research Council; Emily Thornberry MP, Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change; John Sauven, Director, Greenpeace UK; Business Spokesperson (tbc) |
Chair: |
Roger Milne, Political and Environmental Editor, Utility Week |
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Wed 29 Sep |
19:30 |
20:45 |
Climate Clinic @ The Cube |
Fringe: |
Microgeneration: Cleaner Energy begins at Home |
Host: |
Micropower Council |
Sponsor: |
Supported by Kingspan |
Speakers: |
Emily Thornberry MP, Shadow DECC Spokesperson: Dave Sowden, Chief Executive, Micropower Council; Mette Kahlin, Advocacy Advisor, Which?; Geoffrey Lean, Daily Telegraph |
Chair: |
Malcolm Wicks MP |
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