International Climate Change Convention, Batley this weekend

Kirklees Environment Partnership 

Listen to Women for a Change – at Batley High School for Girls! 

Batley Girls’ High School (BGHS) students have researched and prepared a series of international interviews with five eminent women - renowned for their thinking and practical action on global warming issues.

The interviews, under the title Five Women from Five Continents, form the centerpiece of the International Convention on Climate Change, at 2pm on Saturday 4th July at the School in Howden Clough. The Convention, sponsored by BGHS and Kirklees Environment Partnership runs over the weekend 3-5 July 2009. 

Timetable

Friday 3rd July

5.30pm

A Sustainable Evening with Ian McMillan

“An inspiring figure … and one of the funniest people in Britain .” Poetry News

Ian will contribute a Poem to the Climate Change Convention

with Mehjabeen Ghazal Ansari – Dewsbury-based Urdu Poet

 

Official Opening by Mayor of Kirklees Cllr Julie Stewart-Turner and Mike Wood MP

Poetry, entertainment and refreshments.

Saturday 4th July

10am

Film showing. The Age of Stupid (12A) by Fran ny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devastated world in 2055, looking back at 2007 ‘archive’ footage asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

11.30am

Paul Hudson BBC Leeds Weatherman will present an award to the student making the greatest contribution to Batley Girls’ as a sustainable school.

12pm-1pm

The Great Debate. A panel will discuss Climate Change issues with questions from High School Students and the audience.  The Panel is:

Paul Hudson, Cllr Andrew Cooper , Cllr Ann Denham, Prof Paul Rogers , Cllr Martyn Bolt (invited) Chaired by Dr John Loughhead, Executive Director of the UK Energy Research Centre.

1.45pm

Arthur Halliwell Award presentation with Dick Palfrey & John Loughhead.

2.10pm

Five women from Five continents: ‘Listen to Women for a Change’

BGHS students have been researching the work and ideas of:

Professor Wangari Maathai ( Kenya ) Green Belt Movement

Dr Vandana Shiva ( India ) Physicist, Activist and Advocate

Clare Short MP ( UK ) UK Development Secretary of State

Dr Helen Caldicott ( Australia ) Paediatrician & Nobel Prize nominee

Polly Ghazi ( USA ) World Resources Institute Editor - Washington

Caroline Lucas MEP for SE England – may be able to join us!

Students will interview the women via the Internet ahead of the weekend.  They will be recorded and presented at the Convention.

Throughout the day

Hugh Jart from Bradford get everyone involved with a HUGE 20ft x 6ft Global Warming Mural; Global Warming Films; Workshops; Local Food & Fair Trade, Green Businesses and Environmental Stalls.

Sunday 5th July

11am

Batley Girls’ High School SCIENCE GARDEN will be officially opened by Linda McAvan MEP.

11.15 am

Awards presented For Yr 7 and Yr 9 Climate Change Art project.

12pm & 1pm

Julian Faulkner - making a garden from your lawn – and composting

Throughout the day

Hugh Jart get everyone involved with HUGE 20ft x 6ft Global Warming Mural; Sale of Produce from BGHS’ Award-winning Allotment; Global Warming Films; Local Food, Green Businesses and Environmental Stalls; Bouncy Castle; Henna Painting; Face Painting; Ice Cream; Fair Trade Chocolate Fountain; Pony Rides; Hair Braiding; Jewellery Stall.

Afternoon

The Peace Artistes – The Ultimate Street Band – two 30-minute sets

2.30pm

Closing Event with Ann Finlayson – Education Commissioner, Sustainable Development Commission. Performances by Birkenshaw & Fixby Schools - with banners, flags, writing songs and singing, on Global Warming themes. With Environmental Artist Cate Clark & Andy Burton of Satellite Arts.

 

The women, eminent in physics, environmental research, medicine, agriculture and forestry, politics and journalism, engaged in Internet interviews responding to students’ questions about their work, are:

Dr Vandana Shiva:  

Activist, formerly a leading physicist, is based in northern India won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 – and is now Director of Navdanya, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy – developing local economies and small-scale food production.

Professor Wangari Maathai: 

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, and until recently a member of the Kenyan Parliament, was the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2004. Formerly a Veterinary scientist, she became active in Kenya’s Council of Women – and introduced the idea of community tree-planting, from which developed the now international Green Belt Movement.

Clare Short MP: 

Formerly the UK Secretary of State for International Development is now an Independent MP, having resigned from the Government in opposition to the war in Iraq.

Polly Ghazi: 

based in Washington DC with the World Resources Institute, is a former Environment Correspondent of The Observer and is now the North America Correspondent for the UK based Journal Green Futures

Dr Helen Caldicott: 

divides her time between NSW, Australia and the USA; is co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute and a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.

[Dr Caroline Lucas MEP: UK Green Party leader may also be able to be there.] 

With BGHS’s E-Learning Manager, Richard Price, the students are developing the completed interviews as a presentation to the Convention in Batley this coming Saturday afternoon.

 

Kirklees High School students warm to Climate Change Debate 

Students from High Schools across Kirklees are lined up to debate Global Warming and Climate Change issues with a Panel of politicians, energy specialists, a Climatologist and a University professor on the second day of the International Climate Change Convention. 

This ‘Great Debate’ will be at Batley Girls’ High School on Saturday 4th July between 12 noon and 1pm. On the Panel will be: 

Paul Hudson, BBC TV Leeds; 

Cllr Ann Denham, Kirklees Council; 

Cllr Andrew Cooper (Yorkshire Energy Services); 

Professor Paul Rogers, Peace Studies Department, University of Bradford; 

with Dr John Loughhead, Executive Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, in the Chair.

Over the last six months students have developed projects and studies based on global warming issues; the art curriculum at Batley Girls High School (BGHS) was redeveloped around climate change themes; feeder schools in North Kirklees joined together to share resources and ideas for this study period.  Teams of Batley students have researched and interviewed eminent women in from across the world – as an integral part of their studies this term. 

Out of these activities students have raised questions for panelists in this Great Debate. The panel members’ ideas, experience and expertise in issues related to climate change, global warming, energy issues and collectively – key issue on ‘the politics of climate change’ – how to change attitudes to global warming issues. The Great Debate will be filmed, edited and used in future studies. The event is co-sponsored by Kirklees Environment Partnership. 

For further information on:The Great Debate – contact: Ellen Loughhead on 01924 350080Learning development - contact: Jackie Eames, BGHS Head – 01924 350080

KEP Website: www.kirkleesenvironmentpartnership.org.uk

 

 

 

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