RC52 examines the complex intersection between climate, security, sustainability and power. Of particular interest is how climate is framed as a human security issue, how it is used as a political capital in global geopolitics and how it has shaped and will continue to shape development policies, investment strategies, geopolitical relations and human security thinking and approaches. It will also focus on how climate security has revealed the deeper issues of economic inequality, political power disparity, resource exploitation and indigenous marginalization. It also focuses on the growing people’s movement for change and hope for global collaboration, progressive political action, collective empathy and people empowerment to save the planet and humanity.
- Water Governance in Latin America
- "Polycrisis" at the intersection of Climate Security, Transnational Drug Trafficking, and Geopolitical Competition
Chair: Mr. Jose Sousa-Santos - Arts in climate advocacy, research and policy
Chair: Dr. Masaki Kataoka - Biodiversity and Humanity
Chair: Dr. Caixia Wang - Climate change and (im)mobility
Chair: Dr. Dalila Gharbaoui - Climate Change and Geo-political Implications
Chair: Dr. Mercedes Alda - Climate Change and Human Rights
Chair: Dr. Haimo Schulz Meinen - Climate Crisis and Global Development
Chair: Miss Milena Ludwig - Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights
Chair: Prof. Nii-K Plange - Climate Justice and Power Dynamics
Chair: Dr. F. Peter Wagner - Climate Politics in Asia and the Pacific
Chair: Dr. Masaki Kataoka - Climate security and Small Islands States (SIDS)
Chair: Prof. Steve Ratuva - Education Policies as Entry Point into Sustainability
- Energy Security and Climate Change
Chair: Dr. Jovanie Camacho Espesor - Environment & Polarized Societies: Pathways, Futures & Strategies
Chair: Dr. Anran Luo - Environmental Law and Human Security
Chair: Dr. F. Peter Wagner - Gender, Conservation and Natural Resource Management in Times of Climate Crisis
Chair: Dr. Christina Laalaai-Tausa - Human Security and Changing Climate in Europe and Mediterranean Countries
Chair: Dr. Anna Powles - Local governance and the climate crisis
Chair: Dr. F. Peter Wagner - Non-Economic Loss & Damage and Climate Mobility
Chair: Dr. Dalila Gharbaoui - Politics of Climate Denial and Pariah States
Chair: Ms. Emma Sale - Politics of Renewable Energy and Global Warming
Chair: Dr. Kristen Lyons - Rethinking Climate Security Futures
Chair: Prof. Steve Ratuva - Rethinking the Climate–Conflict Nexus in the Global South
Chair: Prof. Hamdy Hassan - Sustainability, Indigeneity, Resilience and Development in the Age of Climate Change.
Chair: Dr. Suliasi Vunibola - The Malady of Just Energy Transition: Negotiating Climate Change in a fiercely Contested and Fragmented Global Space.
Chair: Dr. Manashvi Kumar
