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turning up the heat

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Turning up the HEAT:
Can big business really save the planet?

Turning up the HEAT is a series of interactive and virtual debates on climate change and corporate power.

Rob Newman Caroline Lucas Claire Fox Deepak Rughani John Stewart Juliette Jowett
Richardo Navarro KT Tunstall Murray Benham Brian Wilson    
Peter Hardstaff Stewart Wallis Walden Bello      

 

You can turn up in person to the events in London, Cardiff and Manchester and you can watch and participate online - by watching our live webcasts and pre-recorded videos both before and after the events. You will be able to ask questions online, and watch video of the events afterwards.

Can the free market stop climate change?

Caroline Lucas, MEP Green Party
Peter Hardstaff, World Development Movement
Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
Claire Fox, Institute of Ideas
Stewart Wallis, New Economics Foundation

London: Thursday 8 May 7.30-9.30pm. Find out more and watch online.

Will biofuels help combat climate change?

Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth
Deepak Rughani
, Biofuelwatch
Camila Moreno, Landless Workers Movement, Brazil
Murray Benham, World Development Movement

Cardiff: Saturday 10 May 2.30-4.30pm. Find out more and watch online.

Does climate change mean we should restrict aviation & tourism?

John Stewart, Airportwatch
Rt Hon Brian Wilson, Flying Matters
Ricardo Navarro, CESTA El Salvador
Juliette Jowit, The Observer

Manchester: Tuesday 13 May 7.30-9.30pm. Find out more and watch online.

Talking heads: climate change video wall

Watch our videos and leave your comments and video reponses to our speakers.

Bronwen Thomas – People & Planet, Nick Clegg – Liberal Democrat leader, Joss Garman – Greenpeace, Fazlun Khalid – Islamic Foundation for Ecology & the Environment, Emma Burnell – Women’s Environmental Network, Leo Murray – Plane Stupid, Pamela Nowicka – writer & activist, Steve Webb - Liberal Democrat shadow secretary of state for the environment, Kevin Smith - Carbon Trade Watch/ Transnational Institute , Patrick Bond – political economist, Sian Berry – Green party mayoral candidate, Kenneth Richter – Friends of the Earth, Mark Lynas – Writer, Adam Ma-anit – New Internationalist, Peter Bunyard – journalist & author, Alastair MacIntosh – writer & activist, Mayer Hillman - Policy Studies Institute, Almuth Ernsting – Biofuelwatch, Fazlun Khalid - Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences , Muzammal Hussain - London Islamic Network for the Environment, Simon Maxwell - Overseas Development Institute, Robin Harper - MSP, Simon Retallack- Institute for Public Policy Research, KT Tunstall - musician, Pamela Nowicka - the Guardian, John Redwood - MP