In the lead up to the 2015 UN Paris Climate Conference the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies will hold an interdisciplinary conference on “Justice and Climate Transitions” organised with the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The conference will bring together leading thinkers from philosophy, policy and the social sciences to examine the moral, social and political issues at stake in the transition to a low carbon society. Panellists are invited to discuss how we might interpret and evaluate different transition pathways and low-carbon futures in terms of social justice. The aim is to present both philosophical and critical social scientific perspectives on these questions before bringing these into dialogue with each other.
The conference was hosted by the Paris IAS and the city of Paris.
Program
24th September 2015
09h00 - Welcome of the participants
Session 1
09h15 - Jeremy Moss (University of New South Wales, Sydney) : Introduction : « Justice and Climate Transitions »
09h45 - John O’Neill (University of Manchester) : « Mapping climate disadvantage »
11h15 - Darrel Moellendorf (University of Frankfurt) : « Can Dangerous Climate Change be Avoided? »
14h30 - Marie-Christine Lemardeley (deputy mayor of Paris in charge of higher education, student life and research) : Inaugural address
15h00 - Dominique Schnapper (President of the Paris Institute for advanced Studies) : Presentation of the stakes of the conference
15h10 - Célia Blauel (deputy mayor of Paris in charge of environment, sustainable development, water, canals and the local climate action plan) : Presentation of the session’s themes
15h20 - Simon Caney (Oxford University), Conrad Kunze (UFZ Leipzig), Catherine Larrère (Université Paris 1), John O’Neill (Manchester University), Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe Universität, Francfort), Jeremy Moss (UNSW Sydney), Larry Reynolds (IEA de Paris), Fabian Schuppert (Queen’s University Belfast) and Gordon Walker (Lancaster University) : Roundtable on the themes of « social inequalities », « reactions to changes » and « governance and democracy »
16h30 - Questions of the audience
17h00 - Célia Blauel (deputy mayor of Paris in charge of environment, sustainable development, water, canals and the local climate action plan) : Conclusions
25th September 2015
Session 2
09h10 - Simon Caney (Oxford University) : « Justice , Trusteeship and the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy: An Integrated Approach »
10h25 - Fabian Schuppert (Queen’s University Belfast) : « Risk avoidance through transition, legitimate expectations and issues of justice »
11h50 - Larry Reynolds (Paris Institute for Advanced Studies) : « Cities, Citizens and Social Justice in the Energy Transition »
Session 3
14h15 - Gordon Walker (University of Lancaster) : « Climate justice, energy demand and the right to energy »
15h45 - Conrad Kunze (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Leipzig) : « Renewable Energy and new Public Ownership »