On Saturday, 3rd September, renowned economist, author and activist Ann Pettifor will speak at NIBS on the economics of climate change and why a tax on carbon can only be the beginning of a governmental response to the crisis.
UK based Pettifor is best known for her leadership of Jubilee 2000 – a worldwide campaign to cancel $100 billion worth of debts owed by 42 of world's the poorest countries. She is a member of the Green New Deal working group in the UK, a group focused on making the global economic system fairer, giving workers a better deal, winding back the power of corporations and the big banks, and making the necessary transformation to ecological sustainability.
For more on Pettifor's work:
Green New Deal group: greennewdealgroup.org
Ann Pettifor's blog on economic crisis: debtonation.org
Pettifor is hosted in Australia by the Search Foundation: search.org.au