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Disrupting Climate Change and Colonialism in the Global South

15 September 2021 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am UTC+8

Plenary

Speakers:
Pambana Bassett, Solidarity Collective (Havana) & Comité en pro del Pueblo de Chiapas, Cuba
Ikal Angelei, Friends of Lake Turkana, Kenya

Description: Climate change and macroeconomic policies are inextricably linked. Rooted in colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and an extractivist relationship to the natural world, conventional economic and development models have led to mass environmental destruction and continue to exacerbate the ongoing climate crisis. Likewise, the human-made consequences of climate change exacerbate economic inequalities, destroy livelihoods, infrastructure, and social safety nets, and impact the resources and strategies available for governments and the global community to provide for each other and prioritise care and well-being of people and the planet as the main objective of economic policymaking. These consequences include immediate effects in the wake of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change and long-term effects of the global rise in temperature, with a disproportionate effect on low- and middle-income countries, particularly those in warmer climates in the Global South.

Watch the session in the video below, or click to view it on Youtube.

"The ongoing extraction of resources in the Global South is rooted in colonial legacy, which exploits our lands, removing value from our environment, eliminating the commons and cheapening the labour through economic models that disempower our people." — Ikal Angelei, Friends of Lake Turkana, Kenya
"Grassroots solutions are forged by the popular processes of Black, Indigenous, campesinx, and urban workers - with women at the forefront. The lessons from the Global South majorities who build power from below must be defended, studied, and replicated so that we may build new forms of transnational solidarity and decolonial power for our lives, livelihoods, and the planet." — Pambana Gutto Bassett, Solidarity Collective (Havana) and Comitè en pro del Pueblo de Chiapas, Cuba.
Graphic recording from the session Disrupting Climate Change and Colonialisim in the Global South.

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