Name: A New Scotland?
Start: 2022-7-4T19:00+1:00
End: 2022-7-4T20:00+1:00

Theme Climate Justice

July

04jul7:00 pm8:00 pmA New Scotland?Book launch with editor Gregor Gall and contributors Regina Serpa and Michael Keating.7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Lighthouse Bookshop, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DB Organiser: Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop Event Type:Cultural, Arts & SocialTheme:Climate Justice,Disability Justice,Migrant Justice

Event Details

Join us for the A New Scotland? book launch where we’ll hear from the editor Gregor Gall along with contributors Regina Serpa and Michael Keating.

Inequality and unfairness still stalk Scotland after more than twenty years of devolution. Having done little to shield against austerity, Brexit and an increasingly right-wing Westminster agenda, calls for further constitutional reform to solve pressing political, economic and social problems grow ever louder. The debate over further devolution or independence continues to split the population. In A New Scotland, leading activists and academics lay out their blueprints for radical reform, showing how society can be transformed by embedding values of democracy, social justice and environmental sustainability into a coherent set of policy ideas.

At Lighthouse we’re constantly seeking out those books that open new doors and make new connections for people. As important as it is to reckon with history or to diagnose the issues of today, we really need more books and spaces that create opportunities for expansive conversations around what is possible and that foster bold visions of the future. This is such a book.

Each reader is likely to connect with the essays in different ways, bring their own insights and experience to topics as varied as homelessness, healthcare, culture, migration, precarious work, disability and environmental justice – to name but a few.

Time

(Monday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

Lighthouse Bookshop

43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DB

Registration / Ticket Link

Tickets Here

Organiser

Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical BookshopLighthouse is a queer-owned and woman led independent community bookshop, unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space. Nominated in 2020 as Scotland’s Best Independent Bookshop! 43-45 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9DB

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04jul7:00 pm9:00 pmMoved OnlineFeaturedVirtual EventThe Burning Case for Climate ReparationsColonialism, corporate power and restorative climate justice7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Organiser: Global Justice Now Event Type:Meeting,Webinar & TalksTheme:Climate Justice,Racial Justice

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What are climate reparations? Who is calling for them? Why are they needed to ensure climate justice?

Come and hear from our speakers about the case for climate reparations, ask questions, explore the issues and the solutions, and consider the actions we might take here in Scotland to recognise the damage done, and to ensure a just transition to a fossil fuel free world.

Speakers

Lumumba Di-Aping, longstanding climate justice advocate from South Sudan and chief negotiator for the G77 group of developing countries at the landmark UN climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009

Further speakers tbc

At the Copenhagen climate summit more than a decade ago, our keynote speaker, the chief negotiator for the group of 77 countries in the global south Lumumba Di-Aping, called out countries in the global north for ‘colonising the sky’. He also called out the leaked text of the Copenhagen climate treaty as ‘climate genocide’, asserting that ‘we [the countries of the global south] have been asked to sign a suicide pact’.

Lumumba’s comments were in response to repeated attempts by rich countries to block climate action and shut down any global agreement on reparations, in recognition of the global north’s historic responsibility for climate change.

Twelve years later, at the COP26 in Glasgow last November, rich countries were still blocking attempts to agree compensation for climate damages. However, the Scottish government has spoken out in support of compensation for loss and damage from climate change, and Scotland was the first rich country to pledge to give money specifically for this at the UN climate summit last year.

For centuries, reparations activists and communities across the global south have demanded reparations and planetary repairs in response to colonialism. Now they are increasingly calling for climate reparations in response to climate breakdown.

Colonialism created the world that gave us climate breakdown and also brought the beginnings of debt, unfair trade rules and corporate power that have led to the deep inequalities of wealth and power in the world, and also to climate injustice. Western governments and fossil fuel companies bear much responsibility, yet they rarely acknowledge their role.

There cannot be climate justice without reparations. Not just monetary compensation for the losses faced by the global south, but repairing the damage done by climate change and ending the economic violence that’s driving it.

We invite people to come along to hear our excellent speakers, but also to ask questions and explore the issues, and solutions.

Picture: Maddy Winters, Against the Grain photography

Time

(Monday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Registration / Ticket Link

Organiser

Global Justice Now"We are a democratic social justice organisation working as part of a global movement to challenge the powerful and create a more just and equal world. We mobilise people in the UK for change, and act in solidarity with those fighting injustice, particularly in the global south" [email protected]