2009 Environmental Security Seminar Series (Cape Town)

The Centre of Criminology (UCT)in collaboration with Project 90 by 2030 is holding its second Environmental Security seminar this year on 9th July 2009. This talk is titled "New Challenges, New Responses, New Humanity? – Are we discerning the early outlines of how we might be in the future?". The key speaker will be Mr Peter Willis. For more information or if you would like to attend, view the invitation here, on Project 90 by 2030's website. Also have a look at this report outlining the discussions at the first Seminar held at UCT on 7th May 2009 titled "Copenhagen - A Deal for the Poor". (Key speaker was Assoc. Prof. Harald Winkler (Energy Research Centre, UCT). This talk (bearing in mind the forthcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Conference) highlighted (amongst other things) challenges faced by developing countries in addressing climate change mitigation, while simultaneously trying to address poverty.