COVID-19 and Facing up to Climate Reality
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Saturday 6th June, 2020
An on-line discussion about what the COVID-19 pandemic and the efforts to contain it may mean for the climate and ecological crisis. With John Barry, Anne Chapman, John Foster, and Reinhard Loske, hosted by Prashant Vaze. An edited version of the 'chat' from the discussion can be downloaded here. |
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Information about the speakers and links to their papers:
Reinhard Loske is Professor of Sustainability at Cusanus University in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany. He has worked extensively on climate and biodiversity issues both in academia and in politics. He has been an MP in the German Bundestag, and Minister for Environment, Urban Development and European Affairs in the Federal State of Bremen.
From the COVID-19 Crisis to a Sustainable Economy: What progressive politics needs to do now
John Barry is Professor of Green Political Economy at Queens University Belfast. He has been a local councillor in Northern Ireland and co-leader of the Northern Ireland Green Party.
This is what a real emergency looks like: what the response to Coronavirus can teach us about how we can and need to respond to the planetary emergency
Anne Chapman is co-chair of Green House. She has a PhD in the philosophy of technology and has been a Green Party councillor in Lancaster and a member of the board of Friends of the Earth.
Will COVID-19 help us tackle climate change?
John Foster is is a freelance writer and philosophy teacher, and an associate lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. He is co-chair of Green House.
The COVID bonus? – a dissenting note
Prashant Vaze is a member of Green House and head of Policy and Government at Climate Bonds Initiative.
Reinhard Loske is Professor of Sustainability at Cusanus University in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany. He has worked extensively on climate and biodiversity issues both in academia and in politics. He has been an MP in the German Bundestag, and Minister for Environment, Urban Development and European Affairs in the Federal State of Bremen.
From the COVID-19 Crisis to a Sustainable Economy: What progressive politics needs to do now
John Barry is Professor of Green Political Economy at Queens University Belfast. He has been a local councillor in Northern Ireland and co-leader of the Northern Ireland Green Party.
This is what a real emergency looks like: what the response to Coronavirus can teach us about how we can and need to respond to the planetary emergency
Anne Chapman is co-chair of Green House. She has a PhD in the philosophy of technology and has been a Green Party councillor in Lancaster and a member of the board of Friends of the Earth.
Will COVID-19 help us tackle climate change?
John Foster is is a freelance writer and philosophy teacher, and an associate lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. He is co-chair of Green House.
The COVID bonus? – a dissenting note
Prashant Vaze is a member of Green House and head of Policy and Government at Climate Bonds Initiative.
Since the discussion we have published two new gases on this theme:
The UK government economic policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic:
Three possible lessons for climate emergency planning by Andrew Mearman
Building Back Differently: A Climate Emergency Recovery from COVID-19
by Jonathan Essex
The UK government economic policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic:
Three possible lessons for climate emergency planning by Andrew Mearman
Building Back Differently: A Climate Emergency Recovery from COVID-19
by Jonathan Essex