10 Oct: Coalition for Access to Justice for the Environment: Aarhus and Access Rights: the New Landscape
A day of inspirational presentations and workshops on environmental access rights into Rio + 20 and beyond.

Capacity's will be hosting a workshop on 'Making it Real: Civil Society Participation and Decisioning Making'

The workshop will provide an opportunity to hear and discuss the reality for most people of public participation. The panel will give an overview of their experience of what works and what doesn't. Using examples from planning, land transfer and access to green space amongst other issues.

Delegates will learn how to shape good participation and decision making processes; and how to practically get involved in decision making as a community group, non governmental organisation or individual.

The panel members are: Kieron Stanley, Environment Agency; Barbara Willis-Brown, Director SCAWDI and Naomi Luhde-Thompson, Planning & Policy Advisor, Friends of the Earth and will be chaired by Maria Adebowale, Director, Capacity Global

Organised by: Hosted by CAJE and the Centre for European Law, King’s College London
Location: The Great Hall, King’s College
Time: 9:45-16:00 Capacity's workshop: 13:50-14:45
Price: £45 practitioners and public sector, £5 for community groups, academics and NGOs to cover refreshments
More information: admin@elflaw.org or T: 020 7404 1030 down-load Aarhus flyer

13 Oct: WDM Africa Demands Climate Justice London
More than ever before, rich industrialised countries are using the UN climate talks as an excuse to advance corporate interests. In the run up to the climate talks in Durban, South Africa, this December people across Africa and the world are demanding climate justice.

Find out how you can take action against the UK's unfair policies that are prioritising corporate profits via discredited institutions such as the World Bank. Not only will this fail to tackle climate change, but it will also deepen existing global inequalities.

Join Desmond D'Sa, coordinator of South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, Maria Adebowale from Capacity Global and Kirsty Wright, World Development Movement climate justice campaigner for the climate justice speaker tour

Organised by: World Development Movement
Location: University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
More information: www.wdm.org.uk/events/africa-demands-climate-justice download climate justice flyer