Symposium: From the Niger Delta, Nigeria to the World – Charting a Global Just Transition Agenda

Given the spectre of Trump’s drill-baby-drill, and accompanying pressure to expand oil and gas infrastructure in the United States and Canada, researchers and advocates are confronted with deepening global obstacles to a just energy transition.  Informed by the Final Report of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission, this symposium brings together a diverse group of scholars, community leaders and activists, legal experts, and international advocates – to examine the relationship between the prospects for a global just transition, the Nigerian Niger Delta’s enduring environmental crisis, and extractive violence in resource-rich areas in North America and elsewhere.

Keynote Address on April 10, 3pm: Rev. Nnimmo Bassey,  York Honorary Doctorate and renowned global environmental justice activist, author, architect, director of the ecological think tank Health of Mother Earth Foundation (Nigeria), recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and York Honorary Doctor of Laws.

This symposium is organized by the International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution and a Just Transition in the Niger Delta with support and co-sponsorship from the following units at York University: Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change; the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security; the Harriett Tubman Institute; the York International, and the Vice-President for Research & Innovation.

For those who plan to attend and for catering purposes for the event, please register your attendance by Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at: https://research.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=265501.