Copper mining in Chile are one of the sectors adressed in the project GREENLEAP
Power and environmental action in Latin America
Latin America has a unique biodiversity and abundant natural resources which make the region’s environmental politics indispensable for attaining global environmental targets. 27 May we invite you to a breakfast seminar to kick off our new research project that will study how power relations and sectorial structures condition environmental action in Latin American countries.
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Gjennomført: 27.5.2024
Kulturhuset i Oslo & online
Cicero
Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico have all been relatively ambitious in supporting global governance processes and targets on climate and environment, and in adopting domestic climate policies. However, all these four countries also gain substantial parts of their GDPs from export-oriented primary industry sectors with large environment-related conflicts over pollution, emissions, and the use of land and freshwater: industrial agriculture in Brazil, copper and lithium mining in Chile, and oil extraction in Colombia and Mexico. These four sectors represent the respective countries’ Achilles heels for ambitious environmental action.
Program:
Breakfast from 08:30
09.00: Introduction and chair: Solveig Aamodt, senior researcher at CICERO
“Power, elites and the trade-offs of primary industry export”: presentation by Benedicte Bull, Professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo
“Environmental politics in Brazil and Colombia”, presentation by Matias Franchini, Associate Professor at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia
Panel conversation between researchers and representatives from Norwegian governmental institutions and civil society:
Beathe Thoresen, Section Leader, Latin America, Norwegian People's Aid
Anders Haug Larsen, Rainforest Foundation Norway
Livia Costa Kramer, Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative
10:15 End
Background, the project GREENLEAP
In a new research project called GreenLeAP: Greening Achilles heel sectors: Understanding environmental policy change in Latin American Primary industries, we will focus on the relationship between environmental institutions and elites in Latin America, including the role of civil society and civil servants in challenging established sectorial structures. In this seminar we have invited researchers from the Greenleap project and relevant stakeholders to present context, give input to the research and discuss environmental action.
If you are not able to attend at Kulturhuset, you can follow the streaming live from the window below. Participitation online does not require registration.