Workshop: B088 Debt, finance and climate justice
Making financial corporations pay
This workshop will discuss how European social movements can come together to make financial corporations pay for climate change through debt cancellation, polluter taxes and corporate climate reparations. Along with hearing from campaigners, we will plan how we might grow these campaigns collectively by identifying goals in different countries.
We will start with short presentations by activists and discuss why private financial institutions play a key role in preventing climate justice; for example, by refusing to cancel the debt of the Global South and continuing to finance fossil fuels. Activists will explain how they are trying to make these polluters pay for the climate crisis by forcing them to cancel debt and finance a just transition through pollution taxes or corporate climate reparations. This will be followed by small group discussions on which financial institutions they could approach in their own countries to push this campaign and how we can work together to build a stronger European movement on these issues.
Info
Day:
2022-08-18
Start time:
16:30
Duration:
01:45
Room:
S301
Organization:
Track:
Ecology and climate justice
Language:
en
