Climate Justice: Basel in the World is a colloquium at the University of Basel, co-organized in the spring semester 2025 by students from the AG Nachhaltigkeit and Prof. Dr. Janina Grabs. It is supported through funding by Impuls.
Twenty experts from across academia and practice have been invited to share their insights and experiences thinking about and fighting for justice in the climate crisis. Join us at the four public panel discussions this spring to learn about the concept of climate justice, progressing from fundamental theory via global practices to perspectives firmly rooted in experiences local to Basel.
Twenty experts from across academia and practice have been invited to share their insights and experiences thinking about and fighting for justice in the climate crisis. Join us at the four public panel discussions this spring to learn about the concept of climate justice, progressing from fundamental theory via global practices to perspectives firmly rooted in experiences local to Basel.
Block 1 | Public Panel Discussion
Current Debates in Climate Justice
Tuesday, March 18th, 16.15-18.00, Hörsaal 117, Kollegienhaus
Moderated by Dr. Basil Bornemann
Current Debates in Climate Justice
Tuesday, March 18th, 16.15-18.00, Hörsaal 117, Kollegienhaus
Moderated by Dr. Basil Bornemann
This opening roundtable will bring together active voices from ongoing struggles around climate justice. The aim of the panel discussion is to highlight the breadth of the topic and how various practitioners and academics of climate justice can, and do, interpret it in a variety of ways.
The first panel will throw the audience into the deep end of the conversations around climate justice and highlight the various and sometimes conflicting perspectives different actors employ. We will gain a first insight into the rich material which will then be deepened and contextualized over the following three blocks.
The kind of perspectives that could emerge during the panel include: human rights and climate justice, climate justice from a Global North vs a Global South perspective (different but interlinked struggles), climate justice from the perspective of animal ethics and climate justice from a materialist resource perspective, climate justice and limitless economic growth. The intention is not to set these different perspectives against one another but to highlight the variety of strands and how they interact and enrich one another. Join us to find out which way it’ll go.
The kind of perspectives that could emerge during the panel include: human rights and climate justice, climate justice from a Global North vs a Global South perspective (different but interlinked struggles), climate justice from the perspective of animal ethics and climate justice from a materialist resource perspective, climate justice and limitless economic growth. The intention is not to set these different perspectives against one another but to highlight the variety of strands and how they interact and enrich one another. Join us to find out which way it’ll go.
Block 2 | Public Panel Discussion
History and Theory of Climate Justice
Tuesday, April 1st, 16.15-18.00, Hörsaal 117, Kollegienhaus
Moderated by Prof. Dr. Jon Schubert
This session aims to illuminate different paths of development for climate justice, particularly how climate-just thought and praxis were conceived and developed in countries of the Global South and how this might have differed (or not) from its development and implementation in the Global North.
History and Theory of Climate Justice
Tuesday, April 1st, 16.15-18.00, Hörsaal 117, Kollegienhaus
Moderated by Prof. Dr. Jon Schubert
This session aims to illuminate different paths of development for climate justice, particularly how climate-just thought and praxis were conceived and developed in countries of the Global South and how this might have differed (or not) from its development and implementation in the Global North.
In this second block we will be exploring the general theory and, importantly, the history of climate justice. What sort of places did the concept emerge from? What were the contexts from which it did so? How has this been condensed into a general concept, one that has today come to be understood by international institutions like the UN? Who are the intellectuals who have developed and driven the theory forward and what were the obstacles they faced? In what ways can and should climate justice continue to develop?
The aim of this session is for the audience to gain a well-rounded understanding of what climate justice is today and what its historical roots are, as well as to proceed to look into the practical applications of climate justice, both globally and in Basel.
The aim of this session is for the audience to gain a well-rounded understanding of what climate justice is today and what its historical roots are, as well as to proceed to look into the practical applications of climate justice, both globally and in Basel.
Climate Justice: Basel in the World is a colloquium at the University of Basel, co-organized in the spring semester 2025 by students from the AG Nachhaltigkeit and Prof. Dr. Janina Grabs. It is supported through funding by Impuls.