Prof. Steve McGiffen and AGS Staff Sarah Pedersen Attend Conference on Climate Change in Brussels

On November 10, Professor Steve McGiffen attended a conference on climate change at the European Parliament in Brussels, organized by the United Left Group/Nordic Green Left European Parliamentary Group (GUE/NGL) in the run-up to the Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol to be held in Durban, South Africa in December, 2011.

The conference, entitled "A social green revolution; towards and after COP 17" was addressed by, among others, French philosopher Michael Löwy, and European Commissioner László Andor. Professor McGiffen, until 2005 an environmental policy advisor to the GUE/NGL, was there as a guest of Kartika Liotard, MEP, with whom he recently co-authored a book on EU water policy, Poisoned Spring: The EU and Water Privatisation (London: Pluto Press, 2009). Also in attendance was AGS alumna and Academic Coordinator Sarah Pedersen, who is about to start a Ph.D on a closely related subject.