As climate urgency intensifies, the world faces a troubling disconnect. While Europe’s ‘Green Deal,’ China’s ‘Ecological Civilisation,’ and Latin America’s ‘Buen Vivir’ offer competing/complementary sustainability visions, their implementation stumbles against systemic obstacles - from bureaucratic inertia to the collapse of global agreements like Kyoto’s Protocol and the shortcomings of the Paris Agreement. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has broken new ground by recognising Indigenous territorial rights based on ancestral ties. Yet, these legal victories face their ultimate test in the Amazon frontier.
This seminar will explore these issues from two perspectives: it will, in general, analyse why contemporary climate governance consistently underdelivers and, more specifically, explore how organised crime exploits the institutional weaknesses in the Amazon region. The two speakers will expose the dangerous gap between policy aspirations and ground-level enforcement in the planet’s most vital ecosystem and explore what it will take to bridge it.
Speakers:
Prof. Carlos Japiassu, State University of Rio de Janeiro
Dr. Felipe Costa Lima, Research and Development Specialist, University of Luxembourg
Location:
In-person:
University of Luxembourg Weicker Building
room C 117 (first floor)
4, rue Alphonse Weicker, L-2721 Luxembourg
Language
English
