Tuesday July 30
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT/8:00 – 9:30 am PDT
5:00 – 6:30pm Central Europe time
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Over the next ten years the nuclear armed countries plan to spend over 1 trillion US dollars on the nuclear arms race. Those manufacturing the nuclear weapons are making a fortune, and are actively promoting the nuclear arms race. But everyone else suffers. Imagine how this money could instead end poverty, help reverse climate change, fund sustainable development goals, and support peace, education, health and welfare.
This international webinar will explore strategies and actions by parliamentarians and civil society to reverse the financial interests in nuclear weapons through actions to cut nuclear weapons budgets, end investments in nuclear weapons corporations, increase investments in peace and sustainability, and promote the economic value of peace.
Speakers:
- Laurie Smolenski, Institute for Economics and Peace, USA. The economic value of peace
- Maevyn Davis-Rackerby, PNND, USA. Cutting nuclear weapons budgets
- Thies Kätow, World future Council/PNND, Germany. Nuclear weapons divestment by states, cities and pension funds
- Rob van Riet, World Future Council, Chile/Netherlands. The Climate/Nuclear Nexus: nuclear weapons and fossil fuel divestment
- Clara Vondrich, DivestInvest, USA. Lessons from fossil fuel divestment and impact investment
Chair: Alyn Ware, Abolition 2000/PNND, Czech Republic/New Zealand.
For more information see Abolition 2000 working group on economic dimensions of nuclearism and Move the Nuclear Weapons Money.
This is the third in a series of webinars being organized by our colleagues in the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, on various nuclear disarmament issues and campaigns.
The UFPJ Coordinating Committee
