Canadian author and professor of climate justice cautiously hails loss and damage agreements at Cop27
We have multiple emergencies here in British Columbia that are costing many lives, whether it’s a heat dome that kills 600 people, or a toxic drug supply. What we’re trying to understand is how are they feeding each other and how are they intersecting with each other?climate summit in Egypt. What is the intersection between climate justice and human rights?
In the lead-up to Cop27, our internationalist approach to climate justice accelerated very quickly, because we realised that even within climate justice organisations, there wasn’t much discussion taking place about the justice implications of having the United Nations summit in such a repressive police state. Egypt is in a human rights crisis. It has more than 60,000 political prisoners.
There’s definitely been a breakthrough in accepting that there is a climate debt owed. I remember the first Cop I attended in 2009 when climate debt came up and it was flatly rejected by the American delegates. Acknowledging that there is a debt is the result of decades of work.how You’re co-teaching an undergraduate course this term on the climate emergency. What advice do you give students and young people who want to advance climate justice in their own lives and work?
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