Oxford-Paris Climate Politics Trans-Channel Discussion: Day One
A joint Global Directions-Centre for International Studies panel
A Global Directions and Centre for International Studies at the Department of Politics and International Relations joint event: an exchange of ideas related to climate policies, following the launch of Henry Shue’s book Climate Justice.
Joined by experts from the Fondation de l'Ecologie Politique, a Paris-based thinktank bringing together academics, public actors and practitioners working on environmental questions.
Themes
Themes covered in the brainstorming session included:
Ecology and democracy: To what extent can existing institutions adequately deal with ecological emergencies? What do the treatment of environmental issues reveal on the crisis of representative democracy? How can we organize proper democratic discussions on complex and long-term subjects and create a link between the global and local?
Transitional processes: How can we define transition in this context? What are the obstacles to transitions and under what conditions can it be facilitated? Why are the first steps to ecological transition so difficult?
Environmental justice and the "Anthropocene": What are the broad justice principles that should guide our thinking on how to address climate change? What can the North offer to the South? What do responsibility and equity mean in this context?
