Date: Wednesday 25 June, 10.30-12.00

Speakers:

Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister of State for Energy

Lars G. Josefsson, President and Chief Executive, Vattenfall

Dr Emma Wilson, Senior Researcher, Business and Sustainable Development, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Ed Crooks, Energy Editor, Financial Times

Chair: Rt Hon John Gummer MP, Former UK Secretary of State for the Environment (1993-1997)

The aim of this FPC and Vattenfall event was to critically explore the challenges and opportunities presented by improving energy productivity and securing environmental sustainability. The event critically explored the challenges faced by governments, business leaders, individual households and wider civil society in improving energy efficiency. The forum addressed how the world can accelerate its investments in the clean technologies necessary to reduce carbon emissions, thus making renewable energy much more affordable for the future. It also explored the best ways of undertaking the more costly tasks associated with taking immediate action to cut emissions today.

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Lars Josefsson's presentation

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Dr Emma Wilson's presentation

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Date: Thursday, 28th February 2008

Speakers:

Gareth Thomas MP, DfID Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Richard Black, BBC

Graham Wynne, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Chair: Stephen Twigg, FPC

About this event:

At the FPC's recent inaugural Annual Lecture, the Secretary of State for International Development, Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP announced that the UK Government would increase its climate change research to £100 million over the next five years (a tenfold increase).

Continuing with the theme of exploring the centrality of environmental sustainability and global social justice, the FPC in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds held a seminar on "Sustaining our Environment: Is Climate Change the Only Ill?".

This event was kindly supported by the RSPB.

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Richard Black's Presentation

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Climate Change and Global Social Justice

6 February 2008

The International Development Secretary, Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP, in a major speech to the Foreign Policy Centre has argued that the world needs to shift its economic development to a low-carbon model. He also announced a tenfold increase in climate change research funding to £100 million over the next five years.

Giving the inaugural Foreign Policy Centre annual lecture at the LSE, the Development Secretary outlined his proposals for a new post-Kyoto global framework to tackle emissions. Mr Alexander argued that while developed countries must take a lead, developing countries must share the responsibility of change by 'leapfrogging' over polluting technologies toward a cleaner economy as their societies develop.

He said:

"Climate change is a defining global social justice issue for our generation. If we do not take the necessary action, we risk condemning the world's poorest people to generations of poverty."

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The Labour Party Conference in Manchester is set to run from Sunday 24th until Thursday 28th September. The FPC will be holding a number of events inside the secure zone of Labour Party Conference.

If you would like to know more, please contact us on 020 7729 7566 or email Diane Fisher on diane.fisher[at]fpc.org.uk.

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