Wesleyan University and the Price Carbon Campaign to Co-Host National Conference. Press Release, Price Carbon Campaign, September 13, 2010. "Wesleyan University, in conjunction with the Price Carbon Campaign, an umbrella organization of climate-policy advocates, is convening a conference to discuss and develop new approaches to pricing carbon emissions that are destabilizing Earth's climate and driving global warming. Pricing Carbon: The Wesleyan Conference will run from Friday evening, November 19, 2010, to Sunday noon, November 21. Headline speakers include climatologist Dr. James Hansen, author-activist Bill McKibben, and environmental-justice lawyer and advocate Angela Johnson Meszaros... Conference co-sponsors include the Carbon Tax Center, Citizens Climate Lobby, Progressive Democrats of America, and Climate Crisis Coalition.
"'Wesleyan University's College of the Environment was established in 2009 to help students become better stewards of our fragile Earth,' said the Director of the College of the Environment, Wesleyan biology professor Barry Chernoff. 'We welcome this opportunity to co-host a national conference of scholars and advocates intent on re-energizing U.S. climate policy on the eve of the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico, beginning November 29.'... 'With the continuing failure of the cap/trade/offset mechanism to gain support in Congress, it's time for climate policy makers and concerned citizens to rethink carbon-pricing options,' said Laura Bonham, deputy director of Progressive Democrats of America. 'This conference will allow a broad spectrum of climate activists to seek a common agenda that will define the basic principles of good climate legislation, beginning with putting a clear price on carbon,' she added... Conference organizers expect three hundred participants. The public is invited to register at www.pricingcarbon.org, info@kyotoandbeyond.org or 413-243-2556."
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