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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” - Rebecca Solnit
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We’ve shamelessly stolen the title of Rebecca Solnit’s book, Hope in the Dark, for our national gathering this year to help us think about the relationship between hope and the kind of big structural change we need in this climate emergency we’re living through.
- What? Hope in the Dark: Climate breakdown, reparations and a just transition
- When? Saturday 9 July, 1pm-6pm
- Where? Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB
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Lumumba Di-Aping Former UN climate negotiator
Esther Stanford-Xosei Reparations scholar-activist
Nick Dearden Global Justice Now • Nick Anim Jubilee for Climate
Maggie Mason South Lakes Action on Climate Change
As temperatures rise year on year, the whole world is becoming more vulnerable to climate chaos. Yet the worst effects are mostly suffered by those communities who have contributed least to climate breakdown. To have any hope of adapting to a changing climate, while also preventing the crisis from getting even worse, we need a global just transition – but countries in the global south are hamstrung by a world economy that works in the interests of the rich.
Colonialism established the world that gave us climate breakdown, as well as the vast disparity in wealth and power that is compounding climate injustice today. Debt, unequal trade and corporate power are driving inequality, poverty and carbon emissions. That’s why we need reparative climate justice – not just compensating for losses but repairing the damage done by climate change and ending the economic violence that’s driving it.
Join us for Global Justice Now’s national gathering to discuss what a just global transition looks like, and how climate justice movements are taking a stand the world over.
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Co-organised with Jubilee for Climate, with panels and workshops on:
the case for climate reparations • vaccine inequality • climate and trade • debt and climate justice • mobilising towards a globally just transition.
We create hope by organising for a better world. If you’re able, do join us on 9 July, and let’s take forward that project together.
James O’Nions
Head of activism, Global Justice Now
PS. Sheffield Hallam University is right next to Sheffield railway station, so it's easy and quick to reach if you're coming from further afield.
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