Glasgow – Oliver Tickell

Oliver is the author of ‘Kyoto2: how to manage the global greenhouse’, a framework for a new climate agreement under the UN Climate Convention intended to replace the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.  His talk will provide a stimulating and relevant proposal for the deal that needs to be secured at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen in December.

(Tickell) shows that there is no logical basis for dividing up the right to pollute among nation states….Carbon rationing, he argues, requires a level of economic literacy that’s far from universal in the most advanced economies, let alone in countries where most people don’t have bank accounts.  Instead Tickell proposes setting a global limit for carbon pollution then selling permits to pollute to companies extracting or refining fossil fuels. George Monbiot review of ‘Kyoto2’, July 2008

Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow

The cost for each talk is as follows:

£8 full price               £6 RSGS members                 £4 concessions

Tickets can be pre-booked by emailing gail@stopclimatechaosscotland.org, but should be paid for and collected on the door.

SCCS autumn talks are run in conjunction with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, www.rsgs.org.