Why Rich Countries are guilty of Climate Appropriation?

Published 2024-07-18
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Today we will talk about how it is possible to provide safe and just space for all. In other words can we provide essential services of food, housing, mobility, education and more to everyone, everywhere and still stay within planetary boundaries ? More specifically, how are countries doing today and which countries are the main responsible for our ecological overshoot ?

To help us navigate through these questions I have the great pleasure to welcome Andrew Fanning. Andrew is an ecological economist. He is currently the Analysis & Research Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds.

🔷 CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Introduction
00:08:57 Doughnut economics & planetary boundaries
00:13:19 Downscaling the Doughnut
00:23:19 Integrating the Doughnut over time
00:32:32 Scenarios and trajectories
00:42:35 Including fair shares & responsibility
01:09:02 Provisioning Systems
01:14:51 Moving between theory and practice
01:21:23 Recommendations

🔷 REFERENCES

• Doughnut Economics Action Lab website: doughnuteconomics.org/

📰 Articles:
• A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries (2018) D. O’Neill, A. Fanning, W. Lamb, J. Steinberger
• The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations (2022) A. Fanning, D. O’Neill, J. Hickel & N. Roux
• National responsibility for ecological breakdown (2022) J. Hickel, D. O’Neill, A. Fanning, H. Zoomkawala
• Compensation for atmospheric appropriation (2023) A. Fanning, J. Hickel
• Provisioning systems for a good life within planetary boundaries (2020) A. Fanning, D. O’Neill, M. Buchs

🧑 People:
• Herman Daly: Economist known for his work on Steady-State Economics.
• William Rees: Researcher in ecology, creator of the “ecological footprint” concept.
• Dan O'Neill: Ecological economist working on sustainable economy within planetary boundaries.
• Kate Raworth: Economist, creator of the Doughnut Economics concept.
• Johan Rockström: Earth system scientist known for proposing the planetary boundaries framework in 2009.
• Julia Steinberger: Ecological economist working on the relationship between well-being and resource/pollution flows.
• Václav Smil: Interdisciplinary researcher in ecology, economics and energy.
• Joel Millward Hopkins: Interdisciplinary researcher in ecology, economics and energy.
• Jason Hickel: Anthropologist focusing on global political economy.

🎞️ Episodes :
• Herman Daly:    • From Steady State to Ecological Econo...  
• Kate Raworth:    • Doughnut Economics in Cities (Podcast...  
• Timothée Parrique:    • Heated Debates & Misconceptions about...  
• Julia Steinberger:    • Living Well within Limits (Prof. Juli...  
• Jason Hickel:   • Pathways towards Post-Growth (Julia S...  

🎤 Interview: Aristide Athanassiadis
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All Comments (6)
  • @Pythonizah
    The conversation about historical injustices and climate liabilities between global north and global south is just toxic without substantialising the discussion. some critical points: - Is it the fault of the people in the geographical (not global) north that they cause far larger emissions due to heating requirements for staying alive? Does Hickel and Fanning's framework of climate justice require the people of Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia to compensate the south for not wanting to freeze to death too? - Related to the previous point, did people in the global north ever have the option to move south to better climates? What gives one collective of people the right to live in objectively better climates? Fundamental question also for the future. Yes, i am pro open-borders for all climate refugees. No, I don't require them to adapt to the culture of my country to get the right to do so. - How is the burden of technological development taken into account in Hickel's and Fanning's climate liability allotment theories? India and China are industrialising with access to 65% efficient gas turbines. Europe started its industrialisation with 0.1% efficient coal steam engines. The development from 0.1% to 65% efficiency heat engines was a centurial effort of engineering marvel. If you adapt the invention, accepting its utility, what gives you the right to FULLY separate yourself from the side-effects of the process that created the invention? - Population. The carrying capacity of the earth is a function of the energy flow from the sun. The carrying capacity of a country is therefore a function of its area and climate. Having children just as much a political choice as is the overconsumption of resources that lead only to marginal increases in positive social effects. This is completely ignored in Hickel's and Fanning's theories. Any framework claiming to talk about "justice" has to relate the total climate impact I = population P x affluence A x technology T to the carrying capacity of the political boundaries of the country.
  • @azarasan3989
    à la prochaine ' hâte de dÊcouvrir les applications concrètes et locales
  • @guevan7970
    T'aurais du lui demander de mettre ta photo Ă  droite de son ĂŠcran pour qu'il ne soit pas face camĂŠra tout le long de son intervention. La prochaine fois...
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  • Rich country have destroyed Environment for a century...