Invite for the screening of Chintan's new documentary 'Credits vs Carbon Credits' at Alliance Franciase du Delhi
Pujarini Sen
Dear Friends,
*apologies for cross-posting!*
Chintan Environmental Research & Action Group and Safai Sena invite you to the screening of our documentary:
Credits V/S Carbon Credits
It explores the effects of projects vying for carbon credits on the livelihoods of waste-pickers.
Projects like waste to energy plants and methane gas capture plants are fast gaining acceptance by the Government. Several of these projects are made financially sustainable by the Clean Development Mechanism (under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC) through the carbon credit market. Yet the exclusion of waste-pickers in these projects has left thousands in search of alternative sources of income.
The film chronicles the journey of two waste workers from New Delhi, Aasma Bibi and Jai Prakash Choudhary aka Santu ji. Both of them are also activists with Safai Sena, an association of waste-pickers, itinerant buyers and small waste dealers.
Asma Bibi is worried how a waste-to-energy project in her own backyard, in the Ghazipur landfill in Delhi, may put waste-pickers like herself out of a job. Santu, pushed out of his small shop in Connaught Place by a large corporate, put forward the case of recyclers at the CDM board in Copenhagen, in 2009.
Concerned about and having experienced first-hand, the effects of privatization, they travel to Kanpur, Mumbai and Okhla in Delhi to explore what impact the hunger for carbon credits and private handling of waste has had on recyclers like themselves.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.
6:30pm, February 4th, 2013
(Film 6:30pm, discussion 6:50pm to 7:30pm)
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium,
Alliance Francaise de Delhi
72, Lodhi Estate, Lodi Rd, New Delhi- 110003
Please RSVP to:
puja...@chintan-india.org ; +91 8586016050
ni...@chintan-india.org; +91 8860757171
im...@chintan-india.org; +91 9312036821
Link to Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/413637358719274/
Please feel free to invite your colleagues and friends, and help spread the word.
We hope to see you there. Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Pujarini Sen.
“ The years pass. The times change. All that survives and transcends this inevitable process, that shines brighter with each new era, is the record of a great human spirit that has endured the unendurable and remained true to the very end to its deepest convictions."
Daisaku Ikeda.