‘Climate justice’ has become a key term in the critical climate debate in recent years. It refers to the injustice that the causes of the climate crisis are primarily attributable to the rich industrialised countries in the global North, while its effects particularly affect the poor countries in the global South. However, climate justice is also about fundamental questions, such as how poor countries should be supported in adapting to the climate crisis or in building a climate-neutral economy and infrastructure. Or what impact such support would have on the already exacerbated distribution struggles in this country. This and other issues will be discussed at the event, including the example of hydrogen from Namibia. After all, Germany - and therefore Bremen - is dependent on green hydrogen to achieve its climate targets, especially for energy and labour-intensive industries such as the steelworks in Gröpelingen. And around half of this in turn has to be imported, including from Namibia, a country that is affected by great poverty and still suffers from the effects of the genocide committed by Germany against the Herero and Nama in 1904.
Our guests: Dr Boniface Mabanza Bambu, born in the DR Congo, is a theologian and philosopher and works for the Kirchliche Arbeitsstelle Südliches Afrika. Dr Stefanie Baasch works at the artec Research Centre for Sustainability at the University of Bremen.
Location: F 61 - Room in the courtyard, Fehrfeld 61-64 (courtyard entrance between bicycle shop and bookshop, then centre left in the courtyard)
Cooperation: The event is organised in cooperation with the Climate Working Group of DIE LINKE. In this context, we would also like to draw your attention to another event that is also taking place in the F61 room in the courtyard: Thu 14 Nov, 7pm: ‘TGemeinsam für den Wandel – Wie gewinnen wir Mehrheiten für die sozial-ökologische Transformation?’. With: Nina Treu (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, Leipzig) and Thomas Goes (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen)
https://fomobremen.info/events/ebec932c-0ad7-4e8b-ac6c-6e9a04466612
Article in the taz newspaper from 24.10.2024