CUSP - Critically Urgent Societal Problems
CUSP Lecture & Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 4:00 p.m. sharp. - 5:30 p.m.
Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography, University of Cambridge
Governing Temperature, Governing the World: From the Earth Summit to the Earth Commission
ABSTRACT:
At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro the world’s nations agreed a goal of seeking to avoid
dangerous climatic change by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would allow eco-
systems to adapt, food supplies to be secured, and economic development be sustained. Just over 30
years later, the Earth Commission – an international team of natural and social scientists hosted by Future
Earth – called for a “no significant harm” and “just” climate target of less than 1 °C of warming with
respect to “pre-industrial” conditions. This talk traces the reductionist moves over this 30-year period
that have regrettably made the control of global temperature synonymous with securing “Earth justice”.
Retrieving modes from the 1970s, or even earlier, of thinking about climate and society relations suggests
alternative and less reductive pathways for framing climate governance.
------
The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with Sabine Höhler, Sam Robinson, Richard Staley,
Sverker Sörlin (Chair)
and
Paul Warde.
The lecture and panel discussion are organized within the framework
of the SCAS CUSP
Series.
Venue: Thunbergssalen, SCAS, Linneanum, Thunbergsvägen 2, Uppsala.
The event will also be available via Zoom Webinar: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/66008728308
Read more about the organizer:
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) >>