Nagraj Adve
Member
TEACHERS AGAINST THE CLIMATE CRISIS, INDIA

Isabel Cavelier Adarve
Co-Founder
MUNDO COMUN, COLOMBIA

Hamza Hamouchene
Activist and Co-founder
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NORTH AFRICA
North Africa Programme Coordinator
TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE

Bo LI
Senior Consultant on China’s Environment, Regenerative Agriculture and Climate
Shan Shui Conservation Center
PEKING UNIVERSITY

International negotiations about climate change have long been anchored in frameworks of carbon emissions and net-zero targets. However, this framing has not necessarily captured the most meaningful goals for many parts of the world that are coping with some of the most intense effects of climate change. Their concerns have centered around other issues such as the availability of water, the rise in extreme heat, air pollution, and shifts in patterns of biodiversity and agriculture. These issues are undoubtedly connected to emissions, and yet the dominant framework has often determined the production of knowledge, the determination of targets, and the design of interventions, in ways that have elided the concerns of different parts of the world. This panel will bring together scholars and practitioners from the Global South who will discuss the perspectives of climate change that are most trenchant in their parts of the world.

The panel is part of an ongoing series organized by the India China institute on emerging political, technological, and economic arrangements that are replacing an older putatively liberal international order dominated by US leadership. By focusing on alternative frameworks, it seeks to broaden and make more representative differing ways of understanding and addressing climate change.