20/06/19: World Climate Justice Forum
World Forum on Climate Justice, Glasgow, June 19-21 2019, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK
The first World Forum on Climate Justice took place in June in Glasgow and GOSSIP PhD student Marianne Bartels attended to present some project ideas she was working on prior to starting her research at St Andrews University. Her poster was titled ‘Bursting the Bubble? Resource Expectations in the Arctic in the context of Global Change with an Energy Justice Framework for Sustainable Arctic Transformations’.
The forum covered topics of Climate Justice as it relates to Rights, Mitigation, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Behaviour Change and Communication. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed the forum with a positive impulse during her keynote speech where she discussed the Just Transition Commission and the role Scotland has played in establishing the topic of climate justice. Her full speech can be found here. There were also extremely insightful and inspirational talks by Mary Robinson (President of Ireland 1990-1997, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 1997-2002, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation) Benjamin K. Sovacool (Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex) and Kevin Bales (Professor of Contemporary Slavery, University of Nottingham).
The United Kingdom recently won the bid to host the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) which also will take place in Glasgow in November 2020.