Climate change and environmental justice

For years, The United Nations along with institutions and NGOs engaged in climate research, mitigation work and advocacy have worked to build awareness and action in relation to climate change.

Their work makes clear that the changes to weather patterns, ecosystems, water levels and soil quality and beyond brought about by climate change are human made and that coordinated global action is required for humanity to address the challenges already appearing before us.

At the same time, communities around the world have begun to experience near incomprehensible challenges across whether and how they can access food, security, water, energy, politics and culture meaningfully to sustain themselves, as ultimately protected by the International Convention on Human Rights.

As part of our partnership, City Lit and Amnesty UK are running a series of sessions on environmental justice on 15 April.

Opening the day, Amnesty UK’s Amnesty UK’s Rapid Response Campaigner Elaine van der Schaft will give the keynote talk from 10.30am to 12 noon, in the Cultureplex.

For the rest of the day, City Lit tutors will speak to histories of empire, extraction, monoculture and hunger; how to make sense of climate change and think about environmental justice by way of engagements in ethics, literature and poetry.

Learn more about the different sessions below.