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. Beneath the sustainability branding lurk 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.
The UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies (CIDS) Alternative Development Programme, Focus on the Global South – PH, and Global Working Group Beyond Development present:
Book Launch:
The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism
July 20, 2024 | 1:00-2:30 PM
UP School of Economics
Room 7, UP Diliman, QC
Discussants:
- Mary Ann Manahan – Ghent University/Beyond Development Global Working Group
- Rachmi Hertanti – Philipps-Universitat Marburg/Transnational Insitute
- Dr. Walden. Bello – Focus on the Global South
The speakers will address the specifics of this new green colonialism and the alternatives being constructed by activists and policymakers in the Global South, especially in Asia, in coordination with allies in the Global North.
