Conference Session: Planetary stewardship - The emperor's new clothes: exploring paradigm shifts around climate change policy and research
This session will look into what types of paradigm shifts that are need to translate the rhetoric of "avoiding dangerous climate change" into effective policies and actions? This session brings together physical and social perspectives on the transformations considered necessary to meet unprecedented risks. The papers question some key assumptions of current approaches. Following presentations, a discussion will focus on alternative approaches to addressing climate change.
This session will look into what types of paradigm shifts that are need to translate the rhetoric of "avoiding dangerous climate change" into effective policies and actions? This session brings together physical and social perspectives on the transformations considered necessary to meet unprecedented risks. The papers question some key assumptions of current approaches. Following presentations, a discussion will focus on alternative approaches to addressing climate change.
The session will be chaired by Heide Hackmann
Convenors of the session will be:
Maria Sharmina, Sustainable Consumption Institute, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester;
Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester;
Heide Hackmann, International Social Science Council, UNESCO;
Karen O'Brien, University of Oslo;
Chris Shearlock, The Co-operative Group.
CCAFS Scenarios Officer Joost Vervoort will be co-presenting the paper "We’re All In This Together: Shifting Paradigms on Science and Society in a Shifting Global Landscape".
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