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# 5. SSU – Climate policy in the urban Age (EN)

PART OF THE 2022/23 STADSSALONSURBAINS LECTURE SERIES ‘MOVING CITIES FORWARD, LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND: TOWARD FAIT & SUSTAINABLE TRANSITIONS’

‘Climate policy in the urban age’

Nation states have long reigned supreme as agents in charge of addressing climate change as a global challenge. Yet, in recent years, a pivot in the conversation has presented climate action in urban areas as integral to achieving global climate action targets. How did this shift occur? This lecture traces the process through which an urban interest took hold in international climate policy. First, the lecture focuses on three mechanisms that explain the adoption of an urban focus in climate conversations: the formation of new actor alliances, the strategic development of actionable policy frames, and the embedding of urban climate objectives into institutional frameworks of international organizations. Next, the lecture reflects on how the articulation of an urban agenda extends beyond such strategic interventions. The establishment of the urban as a discursive object in climate policy renders specific forms of knowledge and action conceivable – even self-evident – which has implications for the prospects of delivering just and transformative climate action.

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03.03.2023 | Linda Westman (Sheffield University) | Climate policy in the urban age
17.03.2023 | Sherilyn MacGregor (University of Manchester) | Care and the city: why the time is right for ecofeminist urban visions
21.04.2023 | Dagmar Haase (Humboldt University Berlin) | Urban trees and urban forests to mitigate climate change in cities: Solution or challenge? A story of conflicting insights
26.05.2023 | Margerita Triguero-Mas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)  | “From the right to unhealthy ungreen deprived cities to the right to healthy, sustainable and just cities”

Speaker(s)

Linda Westman University of Sheffield

Schedule

17:30 > 19:30

Place

Beursschouwburg

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