Discussion | Social inequalities shape climate action and implementation of the Paris Agreement

Flooding in East Africa. Photo by Oxfam East Africa.
Flooding in East Africa. Photo by Oxfam East Africa.
15:00 – 16:30
This is an in-person only event. To attend, please send an email to Morgan Lee.
For queries, contact Britta Rennkamp, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town.
The event will present and discuss evidence on how social inequalities shape climate action and implementation of the Paris Agreement in sub-Saharan Africa.
Five speakers from the universities of Ghana, Nairobi, and Cape Town, as well as representatives of the Africa Group of Negotiators to the UN Climate Negotiations, will present insights on how the inequalities in the current climate regime shape national responses at multi-scalar levels of climate governance:
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This is a side event of the conference on Inequality, Work, and Nature: Strategic Dilemmas and Policy Resolution scheduled for 8 and 9 November in Cape Town, South Africa.