Realising Climate Reparations: Towards a Global Climate Stabilization Fund and Resilience Fund Programme for Loss and Damage in Marginalised and Former Colonised Societies

Perry, Keston K.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3561121

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“…Reframing with attention to intersectional feminist insights is also central to moving forward at other scales and sectors. For instance, climate finance or aid from advanced industrialized countries to historically exploited and impoverished post‐colonial countries should not be considered charity or philanthropy, but rather as accountability and responsibility (Perry, 2020). Climate reparations are the acceptance of this responsibility of historical and contemporary harms and injustices, and then accountability through mechanisms such as the finance for justice – this includes a range of issues such as mobility justice for refugees, finance for loss and damage for states, adaptation finance to communities, as well as reducing fossil fuel dependency, increasing decarbonisation investments, and a range of measures to bring down carbon emissions rapidly without externalising costs.…”

Section: Moving Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical climate justice

Sultana

2021

Geographical Journal

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Climate change has had unequal and uneven burdens across places whereby the planetary crisis involves a common but differentiated responsibility. The injustices of intensifying climate breakdown have laid bare the fault lines of suffering across sites and scales. A climate justice framework helps us to think about and address these inequities. Climate justice fundamentally is about paying attention to how climate change impacts people differently, unevenly, and disproportionately, as well as redressing the resultant injustices in fair and equitable ways. Critical climate justice as a praxis of solidarity and collective action benefits from greater engagement with intersectional and international feminist scholarship. Incorporating insights from feminist climate justice bolsters solidarity praxis while enriching and reframing dominant climate change discussions for more impactful and accountable action.

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Section: Moving Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical climate justice

Sultana

2021

Geographical Journal

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“…Repair, on this expanded scale, redresses some of the harms of uneven development and produces an alternative geography structured by relations of care and mutual flourishing. Literature on "reparations ecology" has grappled with the forebears and afterlives of socioecological harms and thefts (Cadieux et al 2019;Patel and Moore 2017), while Perry's (2020) proposal for a Global Climate Stabilization Fund aims to create a mechanism for the repayment of climate and other environmental debts in ways that deliver "climate reparations" (see also T a ıw o and Cibralic 2020).…”

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Financing Reparative Climate Infrastructures: Capital Switching, Repair, and Decommodification

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Despite geographical critiques of the financialisation of climate governance, the realities of deteriorating environmental conditions, entrenched market logics, and the concentration of capital in the hands of financiers demand new strategies to contend with climate finance. We envision routes to better futures by surveying “financialised” responses to climate catastrophe that might be harnessed towards more reparative and decommodified ends. We combine ideas of “repair” and “capital switching” to evaluate financial tools for “reparative climate infrastructures” in five cases centred on energy, land, and water in the United States, Australia, Indonesia, and Brazil. Through these cases, we identify three key themes—governance, scale, and the state—that illuminate the socioecological, material, and political dimensions of reparative capital switching. The cases are each hopeful and cautionary. Together they offer a window into the contested terrain of climate finance in the present and highlight the need for critical attention to its strategic possibilities.

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“…Moreover, debates over climate and ecological justice have seen growing calls for an explicit recognition of the ecological debt accumulated by the global north through centuries of colonial domination and resource exploitation in the global south (Bellamy Foster and Clark, 2004). Proponents of ecological and climate reparation have brought forth solutions that include the restructuring or canceling of financial debt owed by the global south, and the creation of a Global Climate Stabilization Fund and Resilience Fund Programme, dedicated to meeting needs under the loss and damage category of financial compensation, and funded by the countries most responsible for global ecological and climatic destabilization (Perry, 2020). As concerns for climate change galvanize opportunities for financial redistribution and reparation, it is important that emerging institutional and funding arrangements are designed to address the biodiversity crisis alongside the climate crisis, while also contributing to local communities' well-being and resilience (Seddon et al, 2020;Pettorelli et al, 2021).…”

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Fostering Coexistence Between People and Large Carnivores in Africa: Using a Theory of Change to Identify Pathways to Impact and Their Underlying Assumptions

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Marino

Linnell

et al. 2022

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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Coexistence with large carnivores poses challenges to human well-being, livelihoods, development, resource management, and policy. Even where people and carnivores have historically coexisted, traditional patterns of behavior toward large carnivores may be disrupted by wider processes of economic, social, political, and climate change. Conservation interventions have typically focused on changing behaviors of those living alongside large carnivores to promote sustainable practices. While these interventions remain important, their success is inextricably linked to broader socio-political contexts, including natural resource governance and equitable distribution of conservation-linked costs and benefits. In this context we propose a Theory of Change to identify logical pathways of action through which coexistence with large carnivores can be enhanced. We focus on Africa's dryland landscapes, known for their diverse guild of large carnivores that remain relatively widespread across the continent. We review the literature to understand coexistence and its challenges; explain our Theory of Change, including expected outcomes and pathways to impact; and discuss how our model could be implemented and operationalized. Our analysis draws on the experience of coauthors, who are scientists and practitioners, and on literature from conservation, political ecology, and anthropology to explore the challenges, local realities, and place-based conditions under which expected outcomes succeed or fail. Three pathways to impact were identified: (a) putting in place good governance harmonized across geographic scales; (b) addressing coexistence at the landscape level; and (c) reducing costs and increasing benefits of sharing a landscape with large carnivores. Coordinated conservation across the extensive, and potentially transboundary, landscapes needed by large carnivores requires harmonization of top-down approaches with bottom-up community-based conservation. We propose adaptive co-management approaches combined with processes for active community engagement and informed consent as useful dynamic mechanisms for navigating through this contested space, while enabling adaptation to climate change. Success depends on strengthening underlying enabling conditions, including governance, capacity, local empowerment, effective monitoring, and sustainable financial support. Implementing the Theory of Change requires ongoing monitoring and evaluation to inform adaptation and build confidence in the model. Overall, the model provides a flexible and practical framework that can be adapted to dynamic local socio-ecological contexts.

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Realising Climate Reparations: Towards a Global Climate Stabilization Fund and Resilience Fund Programme for Loss and Damage in Marginalised and Former Colonised Societies

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Critical climate justice

Critical climate justice

Financing Reparative Climate Infrastructures: Capital Switching, Repair, and Decommodification

Fostering Coexistence Between People and Large Carnivores in Africa: Using a Theory of Change to Identify Pathways to Impact and Their Underlying Assumptions

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