The Emerging Geographies of 1.5°C: Geoengineering, enclosures and the new frontiers of extractivism

Following our first session addressing the decolonial and environmental justice perspectives from Latin America, in our second session we will turn our attention to proposed agendas and solutions to limit 1.5°C in the next decade (2021-2030). This session will deal with the Anti-politics of SDG's and solar geoengineering.

This lecture will be delivered by guest speakers:

Dr Jessica Hope (St Andrews University) and Dr Kevin Surprise (Mount Holyoke College).

Description:

The session seeks to identify the nexus between the politics of net-zero and the possible implications of new forms of and/or frontiers of extractivism, land-grabbing and spatial reconfigurations required for maintaining the world under a 1.5°C in the following decade.  The session seeks to engage with the following questions: 

• What do climate pledges and actions to manage overshooting and stay below 1.5°C threshold mean for different places?  
• What are the possible political, spatial, and social implications of the deployment of geoengineering imaginaries and projects as a way to meet the 1.5°C target?
• How is the 2030 agenda (Paris Agreement and SDGs) shaping and reconfiguring new forms of extractivism and spatial inequalities?
• How are calls to address the ‘urgency' for emission reductions coming from different groups across the political spectrum shaping the emerging politics of life under the warming condition? 

This session is sponsored by the Economy & Culture, Geographies of Life, Politics, State and Space and the Urban Worlds Research Clusters form the Geography Department at Durham University.