Tackling climate change becomes ever more urgent, but some climate policies can have unfair distributional impacts and generate public opposition. This lecture will first provide an overview of various facets of climate injustice, covering responsibility, vulnerability and capacity. It will then explain how some of these injustices translate into distributionally unjust impacts of climate change mitigation policies. The lecture will then discuss in which ways social policy can address climate injustices, reaching from compensatory measures to addressing some of the root causes of climate injustice.

About the speaker: Milena Büchs is Professor of Sustainable Welfare at the University of Leeds. Her work focuses on climate justice and welfare states in a postgrowth context. She is currently UK Principle Investigator of the Horizon Europe project MAPS “Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability”, and Co-Investigator of the Horizon Europe project ToBe “Towards an economy for sustainable well-being”.

Schedule:

14.30-15.15 Introduction & lecture

15.15-16.00 Q & A

Places are free, but must be booked via the Eventbrite page linked here.