Posted on 21 June 2023 by BaerbelW

On June 28 & 29, 2023 the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Climate Justice will host its fifth International Conference on Climate Justice. This year's conference topic is Beyond the emergency and features speakers from around the globe who all have been invited to give short presentations related to mutual and transformative practices for change.

One of the keynotes on Wednesday is of particular interest from our perspective: Skeptical Science: Giving facts a fighting chance against (climate) misinformation. It will be presented by Bärbel Winkler and includes an overview about our website's history, our rebuttal database, our projects and our myth pre- and debunking resources. We will share the presentation after the conference.

The conference will be held in English and simultaneously translated into Spanish and Italian. Participation is open to all and the conference will be hosted on Zoom. You can download the full program from the conference website and register for the conference here. The organizers will send out the Zoom link to registered participants on the day before the conference.

Here is the full list of talks scheduled for Wednesday, June 28:

• Towards 3 years of Centre of Excellence Jean Monnet on Climate Justice: Communication and Dissemination of the events | Edoardo Crescini, Dep. ICEA, University of Padua;
• The Centre of Excellence Jean Monnet on Climate Justice: from the collection of the best practices till the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) | Daniele Codato, Cristina Tha, Dep. ICEA, University of Padua;
• Scientific Publication and Research Activities at the Centre of Excellence Jean Monnet on Climate Justice | Francesca Peroni, Dep. ICEA, University of Padua
• Climate Justice and African climate youth movements: A Bigger Picture | Vanessa Nakate, Climate activist for the Rise Up Movement
• Climate Justice in the cities: the experience of Bergen Municipality | Stina Ellevseth Oseland, Director of the Climate Agency in the Bergen Municipality
• Decolonizing the Resource Commons in a Multi-scalar Political Ecologies Framework | Joshi Shangrila, Researcher of the Faculty of Climate Justice, The Evergreen State Collage, Olympia, WA
• The global campaign STOP EACOP: movements and legal actions to refuse a Fossil Future | Omar Mohamed Elmawi, STOEACOP coordinator campaigns since November 2022
• The role of ICT in Climate Change: a World Wide Waste | Gerry McGregory, author of the book “World Wide Waste. How digital is killing our planet”
• Skeptical Science: Giving facts a fighting chance against (climate) misinformation | Baerbel Winkler, coordinator and writer for Skeptical Science organization
• Passante di Mezzo: Rights of Mobility and Collective Redefinition of the Public Space in Bologna | Bologna for Climate Justice
• Climate Movements: the Milan Congress for Climate Justice | Alex Foti, climate activist and coordinator of the World Congress for Climate Justice (WCCJ)

The list of speakers for the 2nd part of the conference on Thursday, June 29 from 16:00 to 18:00 CEST is available on the conference homepage.

About the Jean Monnet Centre

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Climate Justice works as a hub generating, exchanging and gathering scientific knowledge, practices and expertise on EU climate justice policies at international, European, national and local level among research, institutions and civil society. The Centre responds to the need of bringing the issues of Climate Justice and just transition recognized in the EU Green Deal framework into the dialogue between the academic world, society and policy makers.

To participate register here