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SUMMARY:Climate Ethics and Justice for Africa in the Post-2020 Climate Reg
 ime (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar) - Dr Chuks Okereke\, University of R
 eading\, UK
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CONTACT:Dr Pauline Essah
DESCRIPTION:There has been plenty of talk about fairness being at the hear
 t of the international cooperative action against human-driven climate cha
 nge but\, from an African point of view\, there is little evidence of it s
 o far. On the contrary\, Africa has been short-changed and largely overloo
 ked in much of the global discourse and policy development relating to cli
 mate change. The continent has no official mention in the United Nations C
 onvention for Climate Change or in the Kyoto Protocol — the two principa
 l documents of the cooperative institution designed by the United Nations 
 to tackle global climate change. The assumption is that Africa's interests
  are covered as part of the wider group of developing countries. But this 
 is misguided so long as Africa does not command any significant influence 
 in the developing countries' negotiating bloc\, often referred to as G77. 
 As the negotiation of the post-2020 climate agreement gets into the critic
 al state\, a clear analysis is needed on what constitutes climate justice 
 for Africa and the institutions and policies required at both national and
  global level to deliver climate justice for Africa. \n\nThis paper argues
  that the post 2020 climate agreement is developing in way that will lead 
 to further marginalization of\, and climate injustice for Africa. 
LOCATION:Wine Room\, King's College\, Cambridge\, CB2 1ST
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