Community-Based Action for Just Transitions

Fifth Webinar in the Just Transition Research Collaborative Webinar Series Justice in Low-Carbon Transitions

📅 Tuesday 24 November, 17.00-18.15 CET

Local movements and community organizations are key players in the transition to low-carbon societies. A growing number of frontline groups is mobilizing just transition language and framings to support their fight against racial, gender and social injustices within their communities. This session of our JTRC webinar series will bring together researchers and grassroots activists to discuss the role of community-based efforts in promoting and implementing just transitions and bringing about transformative change at the national and international levels.

Speakers

• Lizeth Chacon, Executive Director, Colorado People’s Alliance (COPA)
  
• Gerald Taylor Aiken, Research Associate, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
  
• Ankit Kumar, Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

Moderator: Edouard Morena, Lecturer in French and International Politics, University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP)



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This webinar is the fifth in the series Justice in Low-Carbon Transitions which covers the following topics.

• Framings and design politics of just transitions
• Just transition as a worker movement in global North and South
• Gender and just transitions
• Financing Just Transitions
• Just transition, power and politics

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