Rathaus (Town Hall) and University Basel
Veranstalter:
Basel Peace Office, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND), IPPNW Switzerland, Mayors for Peace (Europe) and World Future Council
Move the Nuclear Weapons Money
Nuclear weapons and climate change create existential threats to humanity and the environment. Federal governments have committed to eliminating both threats – nuclear weapons through the disarmament obligation in the Non-Proliferation Treaty and climate change through the Paris Agreement. However, implementation of these obligations is being prevented by institutional inertia and vested financial interests in the status quo, especially from the fossil fuel and nuclear weapons industries. Corporations involved in the nuclear weapons industry, for example, actively lobby their parliaments and governments to allocate even more funds to nuclear weapons. And they support think tanks and other public relations initiatives to promote the ‘need’ for nuclear weapons to be maintained, modernized and deployed.
This conference will bring together legislators (mayors, city councilors and parliamentarians), financial managers, and experts in disarmament and climate change to examine successful divestment policies and support their expansion and replication. The conference will also address impact investment and build cooperation to advance related nuclear disarmament policies.
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