No More False Solutions: The struggle for real climate justice

Schedule

Sat Nov 23 2024 at 02:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Edinburgh, SC

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When we ask for ‘system change not climate change’ we mean dismantling colonial practices, even the green ones.
Be it for carbon capture technology or carbon offset schemes, time and again when we hear of major investments being made into ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis, we find that these come at the highest price. More often than not, they replicate the same power structures and exploitation which made the fossil fuel industry profitable in the first place.
To dismantle the lies behind such interventions, and explore what real climate justice means locally and globally, we’re delighted to welcome Dr Hamza Hamouchene, author of Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region, and Alex Lee, Climate Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Scotland.
Join them for an eye-opening and galvanising conversation which couldn’t more urgent.
Our speakers:
Dr Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher-activist, commentator and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA) and the North African Food Sovereignty Network (Siyada). He is currently the Arab region Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute (TNI). His work is focused on issues of extractivism, resources, land and food sovereignty as well as climate, environmental, and energy justice in the Arab region. He is the author/editor of four books: Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (2023), The Arab Uprisings: A decade of struggles (2022), The Struggle for Energy Democracy in the Maghreb (2017) and The Coming Revolution to North Africa: The Struggle for Climate Justice (2015). He also contributed chapters to various books including The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism (2022), The Routledge Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies (2021), Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (2021), A Region in Revolt: Mapping the Recent Uprisings in North Africa and West Asia (2020), The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (2016) and Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon (2014).
His other writings have appeared in Africa Is A Country, the Guardian, Middle East Eye, Counterpunch, New Internationalist, Jadaliyya, openDemocracy, ROAR magazine, Pambazuka, Nawaat, El Watan and the Huffington Post.
Alex Lee is a Climate Campaigner for Friends of the Earth Scotland. Their work focuses on a just phase out of oil and gas that does not rely on speculative carbon capture technologies (CCS) and fossil hydrogen. They have a BA (hons) in Media, Culture and Society and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh in Soil Science. Outside of work Alex enjoys miniature painting, cinema, and analogue photography.

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*Accessibility: All events will be professionally filmed & livestreamed. The Roxy is wheelchair accessible (including toilets) and we'll have provisions for neurodivergent guests including stims, quiet space and colour-coded lanyards.
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