Segregation and the Environment: Towards a Sustainable Shared Future

Responding to the entwined climate and environmental crises requires action across all levels of our society, involving all citizens. Questions of how we achieve a net zero shared future are of crucial importance, especially when segregation of communities, as a legacy of NI's conflict, hampers collective climate action.

Our event examines such key issues in the context of new evidence from Belfast City Council which outlines social, environmental and economic impacts of 'The Troubles'. For example, the 'Segregation Handicap', duplication of buildings and services add to Belfast's greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile invisible and visible barriers (e.g. 97 forms of 'defensive architecture') prevent people coming together to examine shared environmental issuses and co-develop solutions that are central to a genuinely sustainable, shared future.

Join us for this important event, hosted by QUB's Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action (SECA), which offers deeper insights into segregation and the environment from speakers that include Peter Osborne (author of 'Segregation and the Environment: Breaking Down Barriers'), David Robinson (Belfast City Council's Good Relations Unit), and Dr Amanda Slevin (Co-Director of SECA and Lecturer in Climate Policy, Politics and Sustainability, Queen's University Belfast). The event will be chaired by Prof. John Barry, Co-Director of SECA, and will feature speaker inputs and audience discussion.

Host or Publisher Centre for Sustainability,Equality&Climate Action