In late November, the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Cancun, Mexico. Most of the solutions being offered will center on carbon trading or cap and trade schemes – in other words, market based solutions to the problem.  But is there a way to approach the climate crisis other than through the language of economics? On this edition, a roundtable discussion about alternative ways to both understand, and solve the climate crisis. 

Featuring

Rose Braz, Center for Biological Diversity Climate Campaign Director; Ananda Lee Tan, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives US and Canada campaign coordinator; Iain Boal, social historian & Birkbeck College at the University of London fellow

Producer/Host: Andrew Stelzer

Guest Producer: Eddie Yuen

Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Associate Director: Khanh Pham

Community Engagement and Volunteer Coordinator: Karl Jagbandhansingh

Station Relations: Daphne Young

For More Information
Center for Biological Diversity

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/

The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives/The Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance

http://www.no-burn.org/

Mobilization for Climate Justice

http://www.actforclimatejustice.org

Climate Justice Now

www.climate-justice-now.org/

Rising Tide North America

http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

http://unfccc.int/2860.php

UN-REDD (UN) Collaborative Program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries

http://www.un-redd.org/

Afflicted Powers (book)

http://www.versobooks.com/books/22-afflicted-powers

Wikipedia entry on Lawrence Summers 1991 memo on trade liberalization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers_memo

350.org

http://www.350.org/

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