The annual Climate Group meeting was held near the Findhorn Community in Scotland. We started with our usual public meeting on the evening of Thursday 25th February and broke up at lunchtime on Sunday, February 28th, in time for most people to travel home and be at work the following day. We had sole use of Newbold House, which was built as a hotel and is now a retreat centre, during our stay. See www.newboldhouse.org.…
Cap and Share Documents
The transition to low carbon: policy frameworks and community action
Date and Time: 20-21 November 2009
Venue: Discovery Centre, Winchester, UK
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Including presentations by Feasta members:
- Richard Douthwaite (Feasta) Why Cap Emissions if Peak Oil is Coming Anyway?
- Brian Davey (Cap + Share UK) Climate Policy under Conditions of Contraction: When Complex Solutions Go Pear Shaped
- Richard Douthwaite (Feasta) How a community can fund its own energy supply
Costing Carbon: Just a Tax or a New Economic Order?
Seminar organised by Cultivate and Dublin Friends of the Earth.
Date and Time: 1 pm, November 19th, 2009
Venue: The Greenhouse (the old ENFO), Andrews Street, Dublin 2…
Mark Rutledge – Cap and Share: mechanisms to share scarce resources and provide economic incentives for renewable energy and efficiency investment.
Mark Rutledge argued that the adoption of Cap and Share, Feasta's proposed framework for a global climate treaty, is a necessary tool for dealing with peak oil and the current world recession. Unless it is used, he said, any economic recovery will be strangled at birth as oil prices rise again.
Feasta Climate Group Meeting
Date and Time: lunchtime, Friday February 27th to lunchtime, Sunday March 1st
Venue: Friday: Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin, Saturday and Sunday, Emmaus Centre, Swords, Dublin
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Cap and Share: A Fair Way to Cut Greenhouse Emissions
Feasta’s side event at the UN climate conference in Poznan.
Date and Time: Thurs 11th December 2008, 9:00 – 10:30 am
Venue: Hall 11, the Wind Power Works Pavilion, Poznan, Poland
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