Outline

In a world where crises loom large on the horizon, join us to explore a beautiful, positive vision of the future – a beacon of hope amongst a sea of negativity.

The Green New Deal is bold and ambitious in its vision, providing the solutions to the climate crisis that go hand in hand with solutions for social justice, a prosperous future for all that is in sync, not conflict, with environmental limits.

Speakers in brief

Join us and our inspiring speakers to find out how everyone can thrive, not just survive:

• Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion
• Ellen Fearon, Political Organiser, Green New Deal Rising
• Asad Rehman, Director, War on Want
• Lucy Burke, UCU NEC, Climate and Ecological Emergency Committee and Green New Deal Podcast

Details

Caroline Lucas, joint proposer of the UK’s so-called ‘green new deal bill’ which is making its way through Parliament, is a national champion of the economic and climate-related policies that provide a framework for future development within planetary boundaries.

Ellen Fearon is a political organiser with Green New Deal Rising, one of the fastest-growing movements of young people in the UK holding power to account and campaigning among electoral battlegrounds for political champions of a green new deal that will enact change.

Asad Rehman is director of War on Want, working to eradicate poverty and human rights abuses in the name of global justice. It is clear that there can be no climate justice without migrant, racial and economic justice.

Lucy Burke is an academic in humanities and social sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University, a writer, and a trade union and disability activist. She researches and campaigns for the rights and needs of disabled people at the centre of environmental politics and the climate movement.