The Environmental & Climate Justice Studies Digital Hub

CALL for PARTICIPATION 2021 CONFERENCE and THEMATIC PROGRAM of EVENTS:

– RADICAL CLIMATE JUSTICE for the GLOBAL COMMONS –

On August 9, 2021 the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a major new report concluding that human activity has already warmed the planet by about +1.1 Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit), that there is more warming locked in for next three decades no matter what we do, and that the window to respond and cut emissions enough to keep warming below +2C is narrowing fast (IPCC AR6 Summary for Policy Makers).

But the Nations, working though the UN climate talks under the rubric of the Paris Agreement on climate change, are promising emission cuts that are nowhere near hitting that mark (UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2020).

The upshot is — 30 years of UN climate talks and climate-focused social movements and activism have collectively failed to stop the climate crisis from spiraling out of control.

In this context, climate movements must radicalize and grow much more effective, quickly, lest the world cross over critical tipping points, with runaway warming destroying our global atmospheric commons and the various ecosystems whose carrying capacities and productivities constitute the shared heritage of all peoples.

To see what our conference will look like, visit last year’s conference Confronting Climate Crisis with Systemic Alternatives.

How to contribute to the conference :

Send us an abstract/proposal of 250 words for your pre-recorded individual talk or a whole panel along with a brief biographical note on the speaker(s).  Deadline for proposals is Tuesday, August 31, 2021.

Each author will record their own video, upload it to YouTube, and send us the link by September 24, 2021.

We welcome international submissions!

When your abstract is accepted we will send detailed final submission instructions.

Send questions and/or your proposals to foran@ucsb.edu