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Climate Justice in the Arctic TN

Professor Tahseen Jafry

The Centre for Climate Justice Glasgow Caledonian University

Focus

• Climate justice: An approach focusing on

the socio-economic and political impacts

• n and agency of Arctic communities in

the context of climate change

• Category: Culture & Social Sciences
• Sub-themes:
• Just transitions
• Climate security (migration, conflict,

human trafficking)

• Mental health impacts of climate

change

• Region: Inhabited Arctic (northern

Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada’s North, Alaska, Russia’s Far North), with a focus

• n marginalised groups & indigenous

peoples

Aims

Aims 1. Establish research partnerships and collaborations on TN sub-themes. 2. Produce and disseminate climate justice- informed research in the Arctic. 3. Promote educational exchanges on climate justice and climate change impacts in the Arctic. Potential inter-TN collaborations:

• Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social

Responsibility (ASRSR)

• Geopolitics & Security
• Health & Well-being in the Arctic
• Local-Scale Planning, Climate Change and

Resilience (LSPCCR)

• Northern Food Security
• Renewable Energy
• Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity

in Education (TESJDE)

Planned activities

• Host a series of seminars and lectures

(including online ones) on climate justice and the TN sub-themes

• Networking and consortium-building

events for TN and non-TN institutions

• Host a series of public engagement and

knowledge exchange events on climate justice issues in the Arctic

• Produce an annual report highlighting key
• utputs and activities
• Attendance at relevant conferences and

forums, e.g. ICASS X, Arctic Science Summit Week, World Forum on Climate Justice, AAG, Arctic Circle Assembly, Arctic Frontiers 2020

Partners

Host organisation

• Prof. Tahseen Jafry

Centre for Climate Justice Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow, Scotland

Vice-leads:

• Prof. Kristie L. Ebi

Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) University of Washington Seattle, WA, United States

• Sari Horn

Lahti University of Applied Sciences Lahti, Finland

• Prof. Timo Koivurova

Arctic Centre University of Lapland Rovaniemi, Finland

Thank you

Tahseen Jafry t.jafry@gcu.ac.uk

The Centre for Climate Justice Glasgow Caledonian University