At this event, on SATURDAY, 8TH APRIL 2017 activists, researchers, and NGOs and will be sharing testimony from communities across several continents, discussing these new threats to people and nature, and begin learning how to challenge them together.
Working with Friends of the Earth, London Mining Network, War on Want, and Re:Common, The Andrew Lees Trust is helping to draw attention to the plight of local communities who are carrying the cost of environmental destruction by multinational extractives projects, for example in Madagascar – learn more here
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DRAFT SCHEDULE:
10.30 Arrivals/tea/cofee
11.00 Introduction to the day
11.10 Launch of New Frontiers, New Tricks report
11.20 Case studies of new ‘frontiers’ of sustainability, biodiversity offsetting and the financialisation of nature
11. 35 Questions
Tea / coffee break
12.00 A frontline testimony from Madagascar
12.30 Premiere of investigative video from Madagascar
12.45 Questions
13.00 Lunch
13.45 The international context: IUCN policy, EU strategy and the trend towards the financialisation of nature
Questions
Break-out sessions on the solutions to and arguments against mining’s new frontiers
15.15 Conclusions
15.40 Solidarity event – opportunity to show solidarity / support across the oceans
16.00 End
This event has been organised by: Andrew Lees Trust, Friends of the Earth, London Mining Network, Re:Common and War on Want.