Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice at GCU

07/07/2021

Join us next week to discuss new research on the impact of COVID-19 on climate action in Africa. In the runup to COP26, African perspectives on climate action will be crucial to achieving just climate action and recovery from the pandemic

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Join us for an expert panel exploring the impact of COVID-19 on climate action in Africa, based on new research with African policymakers

15/06/2021

The Centre for Climate Justice is pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the second edition of the World Forum on Climate Justice, which will take place virtually between 21-23 September 2021, is now open. The Forum will also feature keynotes from a number of distinguished individuals working in the pursuit of climate justice, including Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights), Mithika Mwenda (Executive director for Pan African Climate Justice Alliance) and Kumi Naidoo (former Executive Director of Greenpeace International and Secretary General of Amnesty International, currently a Global Ambassador of Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity).

We invite proposals for paper presentations, paper sessions and panel sessions. The abstract submission deadline is 21 June.

Note: Students, academics, activists and NGO staff based in DAC countries can apply for a conference fee waiver. These awards (of which there will be at least 50 will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

You can find more details on registration and abstract submission on the conference website at http://climatejusticeforum.org or below. Please direct any queries to [email protected]

16/02/2021

The Centre for Climate Justice is pleased to share news of a knowledge exchange programme called "Education for Climate Justice"

Join us this Saturday (20th Feburary) for the 1st workshop:
Centering Anti-Racist Education in a Climate Justice Curriculum

Register for free by clicking here (limited spaces):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/education-for-climate-justice-unlearning-the-narratives-event-1-of-3-tickets-140796785977

Click here to learn more about the programme and project partners:
https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/EducationforClimateJustice.aspx

14/12/2020

Call for Abstracts!

"Political Geography Special Issue on Climate Justice"

Guest-edited by Michael Mikulewicz & Tahseen Jafry, Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University

Call background:

Climate justice is a field of research and practice that focuses on the unequal nature of climate change impacts and of humanity’s responses to these impacts. A close relative of environmental justice (and by some considered its integral part), the emergence of climate justice can be traced back to the late 1990s. While initially mobilized almost exclusively by social movements, climate justice is nowadays articulated in various ways by a range of different actors in academia, government, and civil society. Within the world of scholarship, the term has been initially championed by philosophers, political scientists and legal scholars, frequently via the lens of climate ethics. Today, multiple theoretical and analytical approaches to climate justice exist, represented by a wide array of academic disciplines, mainly within social sciences.

Geographers have played an active part in this growing discussion, investigating the various spatial (local, national, global, urban, rural) and temporal (intergenerational vs. intragenerational) scales through which to study climate injustice issues and often extending the analysis to the non-human world.

In this call for papers, we aim to advance geographical thinking on climate justice building on this diverse body of work by inviting contributions that focus on the broadly interpreted geographical aspects of climate justice. We are particularly interested in works that engage with critical theory to bring out the political dimensions of climate change vulnerability, resilience, adaptation and mitigation beyond the dominant techno-managerial paradigm to climate policy and decision-making. We welcome manuscripts aiming to make a theoretical, empirical, or methodological contribution to the geographies of climate justice, and strongly encourage submissions from authors from the Majority World and early-career researchers.

Timeline:

Abstract submission deadline - 1 February 2021
Authors of accepted abstracts notified - 3 February 2021
Manuscript submission deadline - 30 April 2021

Please direct any inquiries to Michael at [email protected].
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06/10/2020

The Centre for Climate Justice is pleased to announce the launch of the Routledge Studies in Climate Justice book series, in partnership with Routledge.

Click the link below to learn more about the series and how you can contribute:

Routledge & CRC Press Series: Climate justice is a rapidly growing field of critical enquiry which concentrates on the social dimensions of climate change, including the unequal nature of it

29/07/2020

We are hosting a webinar titled "Forced Displacement and Climate Justice in Mongolia and Nepal" on 4th August 14:00 – 15:00 BST

This webinar is an opportunity to learn more about recent research on climate displacement and justice in Mongolia and Nepal

Register here:

This webinar is an opportunity to learn more about recent research on climate displacement and justice in Mongolia and Nepal

17/06/2020

The Centre for Climate Justice is delighted to announce its 2020 Public Engagement Calendar.

We are hosting events on a range of topics such as education, international development, microfinance, post-COVID-19 recovery, forced displacement and intersectionality – all in the broader context of climate justice.

Please click the link below to see the full event list for more details. All events will be held online, and will be free and open to the public.

The Centre for Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University are delighted to announce our 2020 public engagement calendar. Our focus is to foster deep and challenging conversations on the injustices of climate change around the world. Join us and our partners to learn more about our current rese...

15/04/2020

We are delighted to share with you the proceedings of the Elsevier World Forum on Climate Justice which was held in June 2019. The proceedings can be downloaded by following the link below.

The inaugural World Forum on Climate Justice joined leading civil society groups, academics, business representatives, and policymakers to foster new thinking and explore pressing topics in climate justice advocacy, research, policy and practice as we adapt to reach the 1.5°C goal. The conference made a landmark contribution to the important and much-needed discussion around the inequality of climate change and its impacts.

The proceedings includes a foreword by Professor Tahseen Jafry, director of the Centre for Climate Justice which hosted the conference, statements from the key speakers and abstracts of oral speakers and poster presentations.

Proceedings of the World Forum on Climate Justice: 19th-21st June 2019. / Jafry, Tahseen (Editor); Mattar, Sennan (Editor); Mikulewicz, Michael (Editor).

23/01/2020

The Centre for Climate Justice is starting 2020 with our Climate Justice PhD Seminar Series; the first seminar of the year is titled “Climate Justice and Water Security in Malawi and Nigeria” and will feature presentations by Williams Joshua, a PhD candidate at the Centre, and Donald J.C. Robertson, a PhD candidate at the Climate Justice Fund: Water Futures Programme.

The seminar will take place on Wednesday 29th January 2020 from 12:00 to 13:00 at Glasgow Caledonian University (Room W010, Hamish Wood Building). During the seminar, the speakers will showcase new research on climate change and its impacts on water security and climate justice in Malawi and Nigeria, and then open to the audience for questions on their findings and experiences.

The event is open to students, staff and the wider public.

For more details and to register, please go to Eventbrite:

Join us to learn more about new research on climate change and its impacts on water security and climate justice in Malawi and Nigeria

04/12/2019

Join us at the Centre for Climate Justice for a guest lecture by Bennett Collins & Prof Ali Watson from the University of St Andrews and the Third Generation Project.

They will showcase their work on climate migration, digital storytelling, curriculum development & the climate crisis in the Horn of Africa:

🙋 Dec 9th, 17:30
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Centre for Climate Justice guest lecture by Bennett Collins and Professor Ali Watson, University of St Andrews and Third Generation Project.

04/10/2019

Have a look at the events the Centre for Climate Justice has in store for Climate Week 2019, including a guest lecture on Environmental Geopolitics, a climate change negotiation video game event, and a climate justice seminar. More details are available here. 👇

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/sustainability/eventscampaigns/climateweek2019/

20/08/2019

Scotland can tackle the through strong leadership and legislation. But we must also recognise this journey will be easier for some more than others.

Professor Tahseen Jafry, Director of the Centre for Climate Justice, has written an article for The Law Society of Scotland on Scotland’s Climate Change Bill - and asks the question:

Is it enough to deliver a Climate-Just Scotland?

You can read the article by visiting:

Scotland’s Climate Change Bill is driven from the top for practical action on the ground. Is it enough to deliver a Climate-Just Scotland?