Disaster Trade Exhibition Launch
As the UK prepares for COP 26, British politicians are lauding the UK’s success in reducing its carbon footprint. But all is not as it seems. As a new project, Disaster Trade reveals, the true global impact of the British economy is hidden from observers, but no less destructive for it.
Focusing on imports from Cambodia, Sri Lanka and the South Asian “brick belt”, this project exemplifies how British trade shapes the disasters that afflict the UK’s trading partners. Drawing on global quantitative data, personal testimonies and professional photography, it exposes how the UK’s trade in garments, bricks and tea serves to displace emissions and environmental degradation, whilst intensifying the impacts of natural hazards linked to climate change.
On International Disaster Risk Reduction Day, we welcome you to explore these issues with us at the Disaster Trade Global report launch and exhibition private view with outdoor drinks reception.
It will be held at 6.30pm on 13 October 2021 at St Martin in the Fields rear courtyard, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ.
Launch and reception will be held outside, with private tours of both indoor and outdoor exhibitions available to all attendees.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disaster-trade-exhibition-and-global-report-launch-tickets-183572088057
Disaster Trade Outdoor Exhibition
As the UK prepares for COP 26, British politicians are lauding the UK’s success in reducing its carbon footprint. But all is not as it seems. As the new Disaster Trade exhibition reveals, the true global impact of the British economy is hidden from observers, but no less destructive for it.
Focusing on imports from Cambodia, Sri Lanka and the South Asian “brick belt”, this exhibition exemplifies how British trade shapes the disasters that afflict the UK’s trading partners.
Drawing on global quantitative data, personal testimonies and professional photography, it exposes how the UK’s trade in garments, bricks and tea serves to displace emissions and environmental degradation, whilst intensifying the impacts of natural hazards linked to climate change.
The exhibition, which includes both indoor and outdoor elements, will run for a month from 13th October to November 13th 2021 at the St Martin in the Fields rear courtyard and indoor foyer, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ.
And don’t forget, if are motivated by the exhibition to take action, then we are partnering with Traidcraft to encourager the government to take supply chain emissions and overseas environmental degradation seriously. Find out more here:
https://action.traidcraft.org.uk/carbon-cop-out-lets-make-zero-really-mean-zero
Trading Disaster: The Hidden Human and Environmental Cost of British Trade (Webinar)
We live in an increasingly globalised world, in which trade connects distant environments thousands of miles apart. Yet they way we think about carbon emissions and environmental destruction is stuck in a different era: one where the domestic economy was the dominant driver of ecological change.