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SUMMARY:Virtual round table: “Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?”
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on line November 17 for an exciting and inspiring discussion!\n\n\nIs this email not displaying correctly?\nView it in your browser.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVirtual round table: “Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?”\n\n \nRegister here! \n \n\n\nPlease join us for a virtual round table looking at where are we at, one year after the conference: a report-back and conversation with MiningWatch staff and special guests from around the world.\nNovember 17, 2020 – 2-4 pm EST (7-9 pm London, 9-11 pm Johannesburg)\n Register here!\nFollowing up on the conference “Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?”, we will present the conference report and host a virtual round table addressing three related themes:\n\nupdates from extractive regions (Canada, Chile, southern Africa);\nreflections on how pressure is being/can be built to (a) reduce energy consumption and demand for minerals and metals, and (b) impose stricter conditions on extraction (FPIC/right to say ‘no’, no-go zones, safeguards etc.); and\nperspectives on how efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and build a Green Recovery/Green New Deal are working towards global equity – or not.\n\nOur special guests for this round table will be:\n\nKate McKenna, The Leap (Toronto) – moderator\nAnjali Appadurai, Sierra Club BC (Vancouver) – Climate justice, Green New Deals, extractivism, and the renewable energy transition\nAndrew Whitmore, Deep Sea Mining Campaign (London, UK) – Deep sea mining and the renewable energy transition\nRamón Balcázar, Observatorio Plurinacional de Salares Andinos (Chile) – Lithium extraction in Latin America\nTrusha Reddy, WoMin (South Africa) – Conditions for mining and the right to say ‘no’\nOur own Ugo Lapointe – Conditions on mining for the renewable energy transition in Quebec/BC/Canada\n\n Register here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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