20.01.10 Event: From bad COP to good COP

Speaker Event: From bad COP to good COP

A peoples report on COP 15 & preparations for COP 16

140,000 people attended COP 15 in December 2009. 50,000 of those people came – not as part of a delegation, nor as an NGO representative – with one agenda: concern for the planet. Those excluded from the COP taking place in the Bella Centre were based downtown at Klimaforum, in warehouses in the meatpacking district, Christiania & the Fresh Air Centre.

4 women from the UK who were actively involved:

- Kirsty Schneeberger, environmental law student & UKYCC youth delegate,

- Anuradha Vittachi documentary maker & Founder OneClimate,

- Tamsin Omond activist & founder of Climate Rush and

- Polly Higgins barrister & advocate for Planetary Rights.

They need your help to co-create a good COP.

As the lawyer at the Peoples Climate Summit, Polly will report on how events unfolded from the peoples perspective and the legal steps we can take to protect the planet; Tamsin was out on the (freezing cold) front line of direct action and will tell us what took place on the streets, while Kirsty (who famously asked delegates in Bonn ‘How old will you be in 2050?’) and Anuradha (who filmed and spoke with many of the leaders) will provide the insider’s view from the Bella Centre where the NGO’s, business lobbyists, negotiators and politicians were unable to prevent the collapse of the negotiations.

To kick off the evening, Ande Somby, is a well known traditional Norwegian Sami joik artist and Indigenous Rights Lawyer, shall open the event with a joik. 6.30pm *joik by Ande Somby* 6.40 - 7.30pm *reports from the speakers* 7.30 - 8.15pm *refreshments & optional vegetarian dinner* 8.15 - 9.00pm *Co-creating COP 16* 9pm joik by Ande Somby Where: *The Window, 13 Windsor Street, London N1 8QG* When: *6.30pm - 9pm, Wed 20th Jan 2010* Cost: *£5 for Event (Students FREE); £7.50 for Dinner* (pay at door) RSVP: *polly@wisewomen.me.uk* This is an event hosted by EnlightenNext in collaboration with Wise Women, and Be The Change.