The super-rich are burning our world. The world confronts twin crises; climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions.
Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. If no action is taken, the richest will continue to burn through the carbon we have left to use while keeping the global temperature below the safe limit of 1.5°C. This threatens any chance of ending poverty and achieving equality.
The world needs an equal transformation. Only a radical reduction in inequality, transformative climate action and fundamentally shifting our economic goals as a society can deliver wellbeing for all within a livable planet.
Is equal transformation possible? What does it entail and why is it fundamental to addressing the climate and inequality crisis? And what are the consequences when such transformation is not pursued? We’ll explore these questions, including the potential public backlash against environmental policies that lack a foundation in addressing inequality. Join us for an open and solution-oriented dialogue featuring some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers.
The event is organised by the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, LSE International Inequalities Institute, Oxfam, and the Stockholm Environment Institute.
Speaker
Madhumitha Ardhanari
Madhumitha Ardhanari is an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and a climate and land justice advocate with nine years of experience coaching businesses and organisations to awaken agency and systemic leadership in the face of climate breakdown and various other long-term realities. She is also currently a doctoral candidate for a joint PhD programme inquiring into circularity in critical minerals and sediment extraction with the Universities of Exeter and Queensland.
Speaker
Dr Fadhel Kaboub
Fadhel Kaboub is an associate professor of economics at Denison University (on leave), and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He is also a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition and Development, an expert group member with the International Tax Task Force, and serves as senior advisor with Power Shift Africa.
Speaker
Dr Sivan Kartha
Sivan Kartha is the Equitable Transitions Program Director at SEI US. He is on the Steering Group for SEI’s Gender Equality and Social Equity Programme. His research and publications for the past 25 years have dealt with policy strategies for addressing climate change, focusing on equity and effectiveness in the design of an international climate regime.
Chair
Nafkote Dabi
Nafkote Dabi is the Climate Change Policy Lead at Oxfam International, where she works on the intersection of climate and inequality. She has coauthored influential reports, including "Climate Equality: A Planet for the 99%” and “Tightening the Net. Net zero climate targets – implications for land and food equity”.
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