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Bergen Summer Research School
Bergen Summer Research School

CANCELLED Climate Justice

Unfortunately, Nnimmo Bassey had to cancel his trip to Bergen.

Climate protest
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Among those first and most severely affected by climate change are countries and populations who have contributed the least to global warming and environmental destruction. What does justice require in a situation where we are in urgent need to move to new, sustainable development paths? How should be divide responsibilities for emission cuts, for the transformations needed to adapt to changing conditions, and for losses and damage caused? What are the responsibilities of societies (and companies) who have developed and benefited from decades high carbon-emission and production of fossil fuels? And how should we in this situation think about the responsibilities of the world¹s poor, and about their rights ­ including the right to development?

Speaker: Nnimmo Bassey, Director Health of Mother Earth Foundation.

Check out Bassey's book "To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa"

This lecture is free and open to the public!