Adaptation vs. Mitigation: Sustainability Views from the Global South and COP 29

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Dr Hannah Parris
Date 22/11/2024 at 16.45 - 22/11/2024 at 19.00 Where Combination Room

How are nations in the Global South reshaping their economies and environments to address climate change, while balancing their urgent development needs?

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Overview

The Global South is at the forefront of both the impacts of climate change and the fight for a more sustainable future.

This event will focus on how nations in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia are reshaping their economies and environments to address climate change while balancing urgent development needs constrained by a lack of adequate financing, historical inequities, and the disproportionate impact of climate disasters.

A key focus of COP 29 will be on climate finance to address the longstanding gap in climate funding for developing countries. The panel will delve into this and other critical topics around the integration of indigenous knowledge into climate action, the role of local and national policies, sustainable energy transition and urban resilience

 

Panelists

Dr Hannah Parris

Dr Hannah Parris is a transdisciplinary social science with a strong focus on sustainability transitions and generating research with an impact. Her research interests lie in using transdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative methods, with the lens of institutional economics (governance) and systems theory, to explore processes of behavioural, policy and cultural change at multiple geographical and temporal scales. She has worked across academia, politics, government, environmental NGOs and in the private sector on a broad range of sustainability topics including international fisheries management, biodiversity conservation, fashion sustainability and climate change. 

 

Programme

16.45 - Arrival
17.00 - Opening Remarks
17.05 - Keynote Speech
17.30 - Panel Discussion
18.20 - Q&A
18.50 - Closing Remarks
19.00 - Drinks Reception and Networking
19.15 - Wolfson Sustainability Formal Hall

 

Details

This event is open to all and free to attend - please book your place.

This event will be followed by Wolfson College's Sustainability Formal Hall. The dinner is available to Wolfson Community Members and their guests and booking is required by 12 noon the day before. 

 

Access

This event will take place in the Combination Room on the first floor of our main building. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located on the first floor of the building.

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A group of people sits in a room, attentively watching a speaker presenting in front of a screen.

Adaptation vs. Mitigation: Sustainability Views from the Global South and COP 29

22/11/2024 at 16.45

How are nations in the Global South reshaping their economies and environments to address climate change, while balancing their urgent development needs?