Published November 8, 2011
by iris_author
Climate Change, Human Rights, and the UN COP-17 Negotiations
IRIS will be hosting a screening of Sheila Watt-Cloutier's public lecture, "Not the Time to COP Out", broadcasted live from Mount Allison University on Nov 29th, 2011. The lecture will mark the second day of the international UN COP-17 climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa.
As former international chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Watt-Cloutier has worked extensively at the UN level to advocate on behalf o f Northern and Inuit peoples, who are disproportionately affected by climate change. She was amongst the first to link climate change within a human rights frame work and, as a result, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This public lecture coincides with the UN international climate change negotiations, COP-17, which is the final opportunity or the world to ratify a post-Kyoto Protocol agreement. This is Wall-Cloutier’s first public lecture in New Brunswick and as a Visiting Scholar at Mount Allison University
Date: Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 6:00 pm
Location: Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) A Keele Campus
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