Planning for Paris Talks

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 9, 2015

Negotiators from a number of countries are scheduled to meet in Paris this December to iron out a global agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Bill McKibben, founder and senior advisor to 350.org and author most recently of Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (Times Books, 2013), and Naomi Klein, syndicated columnist for The Nation and The Guardian and author of Shock Doctrine, No Logo and (now in paperback) author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon & Schuster, 2015), talk about tomorrow’s event that’s part of their preparations for the next round of Paris climate change talks.

→ Hear more: A group of leaders from across the climate movement are hosting a discussion at BAM on September 10th at 7pm. See here for more details.

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