
Global Climate Crisis: Seeking Solutions
Online Conference, 20 April 2020
Organized by the Bahá'Ã
Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland
The global climate crisis underscores the primary challenge facing the global community today. How to reduce the devastating human impact on the environment is the most vital issue that requires non-partisan, united action based on scientific evidence as well as a clear moral framework. The issue has profound implications for the common good of humanity. The negative impact of humanity on the ecosystem and the planet is clear to see.
A rapidly expanding and growing global population poses major challenges in how to justly balance the finite resources of the planet. Limited availability and inequitable distribution of the planet’s resources significantly impact social relations both within and between nations, increasing the risk of conflict.
This conference brought together leading scholars from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss how we can come together to find solutions for the existential environmental threats facing the planet. By approaching the problem from different perspectives, the speakers addressed key questions surrounding the science, ethics, and implications of climate change.
See report at Bahá'à World News Service:
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Introduction
Prof. Hoda Mahmoudi, Bahá'à Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland
First Do No Harm: Climate
Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Repetition
Prof. Maxine Burkett, Professor of Law, University of Hawai'i Manoa
Land's Potential for Limiting Climate Change Richard A. Houghton, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center, Massachusetts
Indigenous Energy Justice and
the Climate Change Crisis
Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte, Timnick Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University
People, Peace and the
Environment: Engaging communities in environmental decision making
Dr. Melissa Nursey-Bray, Head of Geography, University of Adelaide, Australia
The Role of Science Boundary
Organizations in informing regional decision making and policy
Dr. Victoria Keener, Research Fellow and Lead Principal Investigator of the Pacific
Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments (Pacific RISA) program, East-West Center,
Honolulu, Hawai'i
Discussion of the futures of
water, energy and food nexus in Southeast Asia and anticipatory governance practices
Dr. Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns, Southeast Asia Regional Scenarios Coordinator, CCAFS,
Australia
Closing Remarks
Prof. Hoda Mahmoudi
Last updated 7 June 2020
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