Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) invited media practitioners and environment stakeholders to a one day dialogue on Global Justice and Ecosocial Transition.
Time was 9.00am at Ibis International Airport Hotel, Lagos State on Saturday 22nd June 2024.
Colonial relations underpin now-ubiquitous claims around transition, net zero and the green economy. During the launch, co-editor Miriam Lang and other panelists critically explored the core themes and topics of this hugely timely and relevant publication.
The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Green New Deals across Europe and North America promise to reduce emissions while creating new jobs.
But beneath the sustainability branding, these climate ‘solutions’ are leading to new environmental injustices and green colonialism.
The green growth and clean energy plans of the Global North require the large-scale extraction of strategic minerals from the Global South.
The geopolitics of transition imply sacrificing not only territories, but truly sustainable ways of inhabiting this world. A new subordination in the global energy economy prevents societies in the South from developing sovereign strategies to foster a dignified life.
This book provides a platform for the voices that have been conspicuously absent in debates around energy and climate in the Global North. Drawing on case studies from across the Global South, the authors offer incisive critiques of green colonialism in its material, political and symbolic dimensions, discuss the multiple entanglements that forcefully connect the transitions of different world regions in a globalised economy, and explore alternative pathways toward a liveable and globally just future for all.
Panelists were,
Nnimomo Bassey, Director of HOMEF
Ibrahima Thiam, Political Scientist
Miriam Lang, Academic
Breno Bringel, Brazilian Activist- Scholar