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Contributors

Tony Juniper
Kuapa Kokoo
Caroline Lucas
Salamina Motsogae
Ashok Sinha
Peter Tatchell
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Tony Juniper

Tony Juniper is a well known environmental campaigner and commentator. From 1990 he worked at Friends of the Earth and was the organisation’s executive director from 2003-2008.

He is the Author of How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet?

Tony will be the opening speaker of Shared Planet 2008.

Kuapa Kokoo

In order to combat the threat of the farmers losing out during the liberalisation of the cocoa market in 1993, a group of cocoa farmers came together to form a co-operative that would collect and sell its own cocoa for the member farmers’ own benefit.

A cocoa farmers’ organisation was founded and named “Kuapa Kokoo” which in the local language, Twi, means “Good Cocoa Farmers Company”. Kuapa Kokoo now sell about 1000 tonnes of their yearly output to the European Fairtrade market.

Young people from Kuapa Kokoo will take part in Shared Planet 2008 via a live video link up.

Caroline Lucas

Caroline Lucas was elected as one of it’s first MEPs in 1999 and is now leader of the Green Party.

In the European Parliament, Caroline is a member of the International Trade Committee and the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee. In 2007, Caroline was voted Politician of the Year by Observer readers in their annual Ethical Awards and in 2008 was judged one of the Guardian’s top “eco-heroes.”

Caroline will be one the panelists in a big Stop Climate Chaos Question Time event.

Salamina Motsogae

Salamina Motsogae lives in an informal settlement in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, South Africa. She is 23 years old and she is campaigning for an end to hunger.

Salamina speaks passionately, from her experience, about why young people should get involved in campaigning.

She recently spoke about the South African Hunger Free campaign to an audience which included Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu, and received a standing ovation.

Ashok Sinha

Ashok Sinha is the Director of Stop Climate Chaos and its I Count campaign. He has a research background in renewable energy and climate change science, and served on the Coordination Team of Make Poverty History.

Ashok will speak in the Climate Change introduction session.

Peter Tatchell

Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights for over 40 years. He is a supporter of the NO2ID campaign, human rights spokesperson for the Green Party and the Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for Oxford East.

Peter is a panelist in the CCTV, ID cards and the DNA database debate.

Plus contributions from:

• Barbara Crowther (Fairtrade Foundation)
• Jonathan Cox (Independent Asylum Commission)
• James Connelly (University of Hull)
• Marc Sidwell (Adam Smith Institute)

NB: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Wangari Matthai will no longer be sending a video message to Shared Planet.