Intersecting injustices and competing narratives for climate change​

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN EMERGING & SYSTEMIC RISKS

Intersecting injustices and competing narratives for climate change

The climate crisis is at the intersection of two sets of injustice. The first is the obvious one concerning the businesses and governments (historically in the West) that have caused the majority of carbon emissions. These affect the majority of people in the world who have played little or no part in causing it yet experience the worst of its impacts – the first injustice. The second injustice is strangely less obvious and hardly discussed. Most of those same people who are badly affected by climate change are already poor and vulnerable. Climate change has not caused that poverty, so why is this ignored?

Terry Cannon​

Emeritus Research Fellow ​

Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, U.K. ​

Honorary Professor at University College London​

​Special Session of York University​

Climate Change Research Month

​HYBRID SESSION 14 | THURSDAY, MARCH 21​

NOON to 1 P.M. EST​

ADERSIM EOC, N004 Schulich Building, York University​

ZOOM REGISTRATION:​ yorku.ca/research/yemerge/lectures.​

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