Media Advisory For Immediate Release Beyond Maladaptation
Raya, Jem, Stella and Lisa
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Description: Around the world many projects are being promoted, funded or licensed with claims they can help adaptation to the effects of global heating. Research indicates a range of limitations and adverse effects. Many activities are, in reality, not primarily adaptation-motivated and raise concerns over equality and human rights. Nearly all projects have significant carbon and ecological footprints. Very few initiatives respond to the bad-to-worst scenarios, or to the psychological aspects of adaptation. No initiatives we are aware of address how to change fundamental economic incentives and drivers that close the space for radical approaches to adaptation at any level. Given these many limitations, in addition to policy and funding catching up with previously expressed commitments to climate adaptation, a more honest conversation is urgently needed about meaningful adaptation to climate chaos. That means breaking with past assumptions. Ideas and initiatives arising from the same ideology and systems that allowed global heating to reach a crisis will not help us respond well to that crisis, as it worsens over time. Instead, we can articulate less compromised agendas, and support the people around the world who are already pursuing such approaches. Panelists:
Raya Salter Raya is an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School, is widely published on matters of energy regulation and the author of "Energy Justice" (2018).She has over 15 years experience of energy regulatory experience, both in private practice (Dewey & LeBoeuf) and for NGOs, including the NY Renews Coaltion, NRDC and the Environmental Defense Fund. She is an environmental justice advisor to the House Oversight and Natural Resource Committees and has testified twice before congress. Raya went viral after standing her ground against the GOP during a big oil hearing. IG: ClimateAuntie Twitter/LinkedIn: Raya Salter; RayaSalter.com Wesleyan University, Fordham Law.
Dr. Jem Bendell
Dr. Stella Mbau
Dr. Lisa Schipper
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