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Climate Justice Series: Environmental Casteism and Climate Disaster
Past Event
January 26, 2024
10:00 am - 11:30 am est
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The humanitarian impact of the climate crisis on vulnerable communities, which have historically contributed the least to climate change, is now recognized in scholarship and policy. The question of financial payments–from developed to low-income countries– for loss and damage resulting from climate change was front and center recently at the world’s largest climate gathering, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). What has received far less attention is climate justice within countries, such as India, that have deep-rooted and intersecting structures of inequality based on caste, gender, and religion.
Please join the Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature & Society, the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, the SIPA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Climate & Engagement (DEICE) Committee, Columbia Climate School, and South Asia Institute for a series of discussions examining social and economic justice issues related to climate change and energy transition in India. The first session, “Environmental Casteism and Climate Disaster,” will focus on how the climate crisis is reinforcing the vulnerabilities of oppressed communities and highlight the importance of an anti-caste framework for research and practice.
Two experts, scholar Srilata Sircar and Pulitzer-Grantee Journalist Suprakash Majumdar, will be in a conversation moderated by Deepali Srivastava, editor of CGEP’s Energy Explained. Dr. Anupama Rao, director, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the convenor of the Ambedkar Initiative will deliver welcome remarks. This series honors the legacy of Columbia University alum and India’s civil rights icon, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891–1956) as an economist and an environmental rights leader, whose vision builds a bridge from past to present.
Biography Dr. Srilata Sircar is a lecturer in India and global affairs at the King’s India Institute, where she leads the “Introduction to Global Affairs” and “Contemporary India” modules. Trained as an urban geographer, Sircar received her doctoral degree from Lund University, Sweden in 2017. With a prior background in history and development studies, her research interests include urban political ecology of South Asia, the politics of caste in infrastructure-building, and the political economy of subaltern urbanization. Srilata is a contributing writer for Feminism in India.
Suprakash Majumdar is a Pulitzer-Grantee Journalist working on social justice issues in South Asia through the lens of caste. They have worked on a range of issues ranging from climate justice, politics, and COVID-19, analyzing underreported issues in underreported communities. They’ve been published in The New Humanitarian, Time Magazine, VICE, Al Jazeera, Rest of World, and more.
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The Columbia Global Energy Summit 2024 is an annual event dedicated to thought-provoking discussions around the critical energy and climate challenges facing the global community.
The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs is pleased to host Tony Reames, Visiting Faculty Member at CGEP and Associate Professor at the...
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• CGEP Large Conference
1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027
President Donald Trump has made energy a clear focus for his second term in the White House. Having campaigned on an “America First” platform that highlighted domestic fossil-fuel growth, the reversal of climate policies and clean energy incentives advanced by the Biden administration, and substantial tariffs on key US trading partners, he declared an “energy emergency” on his first day in office.
While he hasn’t released an official plan, Trump’s playbook the last time he was in office and his frequent complaints about clean energy offer clues to what’s ahead.
