Labour International for a Green New Deal

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SUPPLY CHAINS MEETING ON NOW! Featuring Sarah Woolley, BFAWU Gen Sec. Join by Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82620576178
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Wednesday, 6 April - LIGND Meeting

*Climate Justice in Supply Chains*

What Action Do We Need To Take?

17:30 UTC, 18:30 GMT, 19:30 CEST
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A panel discussion on the international supply chains for mineral commodities for renewable energy, and for food commodities.

Guest speakers:
Carla Hoinkes - Public Eye,
Sarah Wooley - Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union
Richard Brown & Oliver Pye - LI Germany & Switzerland
Chaired by:
Gaya Sriskanthan - LI New York & Momentum
Our speakers will examine the similarities between supply chains, how western companies are covering environmental and social abuses with greenwash, and how action can be taken concerning the honest accounting of these activities.

The LI for a Green New Deal group is inviting all LI members to take part.

Email [email protected] with any queries

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Last week the second part of the National Food Strategy (NFS) was published and Carbon Brief have reviewed it. Since 2008, the economy as a whole had decreased emissions by a third but the food sector is lagging behind with a 13% decrease.The strategy states that 20% of land needs to be rewilded or converted to meet the 2050 net zero pledge. There are opportunity costs in the plan and concerns that the assumptions made now will not be valid in the future. The whole question of food production and climate change is only touched on briefly in most strategies as it is so incredibly complex and with massive social impacts that no one rally wants to address. The solutions discussed here seem to be more focused on big business than on the small and local. It is a massive problem to sort out but this has some interesting analysis. https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-will-englands-national-food-strategy-help-tackle-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR3dHOb654weBwU6poQ0bWfRxA8nGgjwCArW6rhAtVGtc8hPTWYHeXgaTLo

Q&A: Will England’s National Food Strategy help tackle climate change? - Carbon Brief The aim of the National Food Strategy is to provide a roadmap for transforming the food system from its current state to one that is healthier for the population and the planet.

Meet the author of “the most important book on climate politics since Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything”.

Kim Stanley Robinson will be Labour International For a Green New Deal’s guest on January 8th (provisional time 19.00 UTC, link to follow).

The Swedish ecologist Andreas Malm has called Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future “the most important book on climate politics since Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything”. That such a book should come from one of the living legends of science fiction should perhaps not be surprising: at a point in time where it seems easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, it falls to visionaries like Robinson to point the way.

The Ministry for the Future starts with a premise which, as 350.org founder Bill Mckibben puts it, “is fictional only in that it hasn’t happened yet.” India experiences a “wet bulb” heatwave event in which millions die. This triggers a variety of reactions across the globe, the most significant being the UN’s activation of a clause in the Paris agreement which allows it to create a department charged with representing the interests of future generations - the eponymous Ministry for the Future.

The solutions and responses which are generated by this ministry - in tandem with an unofficial “dark wing” as the climate crisis deepens - provide a vision of a future in which we reimagine everything from the economy to migration. What makes this vision so exhilarating is that there is nothing in it which does not already exist today - either in microcosm, or as a serious policy or research suggestion. We already have the answers, it’s just a question of believing that they can work!

You can download an e version of The Ministry for the Future for just £5.49 https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Kim-Stanley-Robinson/The-Ministry-For-the-Future/25354724 Alternatively, order a hard copy via your local bookstore.

Further reading: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/kim-stanley-robinson-ministry-future-science-fiction/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/coming-back-from-a-time-of-illness-how-finance-can-learn-from-climate-change-fiction/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Incredibly excited to announce that Kim Stanley Robinson will be talking to Labour International for a Green New Deal on January 8th. His book, The Ministry for the Future, is a must read for anyone interested in imagining futures outside of capitalism and ecological nihilism.

Kim Stanley Robinson on Science Fiction and Reclaiming Science for the Left Writer Kim Stanley Robinson talks to Jacobin about Ministry of the Future and his other books, climate change, and why he thinks the Left should reclaim science as a tool of socialist progress.

https://global-climate-justice.com/2021/10/22/labour-international-for-a-green-new-deal-wins-big-at-the-labour-conference/ Labour International for a Green New Deal's Conference report is now up and ready to read!

Labour International for a Green new deal Wins Big at the Labour Conference On 26th September 2021, Labour’s Conference overwhelmingly passed a composite Green New Deal motion rooted in internationalist solidarity and a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of clima…

https://global-climate-justice.com/2021/10/21/its-power-stupid/ It's Power, Stupid! LIGND's Nick Clay introduces the accademic study that provides hard evidence for what you've already suspected...

It’s power, stupid! Graphic by Jordan Engel, 2019, courtesy of Decolonial Atlas It’s about power, and how it is exercised. That is the conclusion of a team of experts who set themselves the task of answering the…

https://global-climate-justice.com/2021/10/19/climate-justice-and-a-green-new-deal-now-a-view-from-the-grassroots/ LIGND's Richard Cronin gives a grassroots perspective on the significance of the Labour Conference passing a Green New Deal motion rooted in internationalist solidarity.

Climate Justice and a Green New Deal NOW! : a view from the grassroots by Richard Cronin, with an introduction by Kate Laycock On Sunday 26th September 2021, the Labour Party Conference in Brighton overwhelmingly passed a comprehensive composite motion providing an am…

Really privileged to have been the first group to have used this excellent briefing on debt justice. Massive thanks to the Jubilee Debt Campaign for equipping our delegates with the arguments that convinced the Labour Party Conference that debt justice is essential to climate justice.

NEW BRIEFING - Debt and the climate crisis: a perfect storm - Jubilee Debt Campaign UK This joint briefing explores the links between debt and the climate emergency and demonstrates the importance of addressing unsustainable debt in the global South for achieving climate justice. Alongside allies at Afrodad, APMDD, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Global Justice Now, Jubilee Scotland, and Latind...