February Spotlight: Listen & Learn for Climate Justice
By Megan Light & Ellen Salter
February 2021
In this month’s spotlight, we share our favourite resources for education and awareness. We focus on climate justice and gender. Happy learning!
Online Events
Defending the Future: gender, conflict and environmental peace : (1st February!) This LSE online event assesses how the climate crisis poses risks to women and girls’ peace and security, particularly in conflict and post-conflict contexts.
An Introduction to Environmental Racism : catch up with this hour-long instagram live from January, featuring a panel of four incredible women of colour on why black lives matter in the environmental movement,
Online Courses / Learning
UNFCCC Climate Change and Gender
UN Women - Sustainable Development and Climate Change
UN Women - Climate Change In Focus
UNCC Open Online Course on Gender and Environment
UN SDG Academy Courses - Free educational courses from leading global experts on sustainable development.
Books / Literature
All We Can Save: Edited by Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr Katharine K Wilson (2020), features the voices of 60 women in the environment movement. The provocative and illuminating essays provide stories of truth, courage, and solutions to the climate crisis.
Climate Justice : Mary Robinson (2019) provides a basic introduction to climate justice through the lens of different individual stories from around the globe, with a focus on feminist solutions.
Braiding Sweetgrass : Robin Kimmerer’s book (2020) is about botany described and explored through Native American traditions. Herself a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer shares stories of reuniting with her own people’s cultural traditions through working with plants.
Podcasts
Mother of Invention : A podcast on feminist climate change solutions primarily from women around the world.
Outrage and Optimism : Christiana Figueres who, as Executive Security of the UNFCCC presided over the Paris Agreement, is joined by Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson in this podcast that provides solutions to the climate crisis and ideas on how to reshape the world.
The Yikes Podcast : Do you ever find yourself saying 'YIKES' about things happening in the world? Climate Change, Human Rights and the messiness of everything going on at the moment can be really overwhelming BUT this podcast provides a space to chat about these things and find hope in the midst of it all. Hosted by Mikaela Loach and Josephine Becker, edited by Finlay Mowat.
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