Just Transitions in Latin America
Organized by:
OXFAM Latin America, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, the School of Human Sciences and the University of Rosario in Bogotá.
September 29 to October 1 | University of Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
Latin America and the Caribbean, the most unequal region on the planet, has recently consolidated the trend towards increased wealth concentration, impoverishment, and vulnerability of entire populations to violence and phenomena associated with climate issues.
While a change in the energy and production matrix is necessary and urgent, a set of tensions and questions still persist regarding the modalities of the transition and the opportunities that arise from the need to carry it out incorporating criteria of equity and justice.
With the aim of positioning these debates in our region, we invite you to participate in the event Just transitions in Latin America, an exchange space focused on climate justice from an intersectional, intercultural and intergenerational perspective.
The event consists of two complementary working dynamics: public conferences and discussions led by specialists from across the region; and open and free workshops in which attendees are expected to delve deeper into some dimensions of the debate, through collective instances of dialogue and exchange.
Participants:
Edgardo Lander (Venezuela)
Karina Batthyány (Uruguay)
Ailton Krenak (Brazil) – Virtual participation
Tatiana Roa Avendaño (Colombia)
Gloria García Parra (Colombia)
Maristella Svampa (Argentina) – Virtual participation
Simon Ticehurst (Mexico)
Carlos Aguilar (Guatemala)
Nicolás Arata (Argentina)
Enrique Leff (Mexico) – Virtual participation
Javiera Paz Lecourt Palacios (Chile)
Carlos Patarroyo (Colombia)
Alejandra Lozano Rubello (Mexico)
María Laura Canciani (Argentina)
Denisse Roca Servat (Colombia)
Elizabeth Peredo (Bolivia)
Benjamin Raphael Quesada (Colombia)
Bruno Malheiro (Brazil)
Danghelly Zúñiga (Colombia)
María Alejandra Aguilar (Colombia)
Climalab (Colombia)
On Thursday, September 28, the meeting was opened in the Mutis Auditorium of the University of Rosario, in Bogotá, by the Vice-Rector of the university, Sergio Pulgarín, the Regional Director for Latin America at OXFAM, Gloria Isabel García Parra, and the Executive Director of CLACSO, Karina Batthyány.
Sergio Pulgarín He reported that “in the Vice-Rector's Office we currently have a network of centers that address the goals of the Sustainable Development Goals. To mention just a few, there is, of course, the Pluralistic Center, which focuses particularly on developing a culture of diversity, inclusion, and equity at the University. There is also the Center for Peace Studies, where we work on key issues related to the fascinating world of transformative justice and its implications for just transition processes in societies. This topic has also been very relevant in the country's sociopolitical context; there has even been discussion among institutions about the importance and necessity of transformative justice not only as a tool for reparations, but also as a tool that facilitates transitions.”
At the same time, Gloria Isabel García Parra remembered that "These almost 20 years of preparing for crisis work have been like the culmination of what we are facing today, which is what we at OXFAM recognize as that multi-systemic crisis that is no longer the type of scenarios to which we have been accustomed to responding, a crisis in a country, in a subregion, in a group of countries, but a global crisis, which also has deep roots in everything related to the development model and which is affecting us not only in regional terms but in planetary terms, with consequences and with quite particular and very drastic impacts for Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Finally, Karina Batthyány She began by highlighting the importance of holding the meeting in “the new Colombia, the Colombia of living well.” She then explained that “over these three days, we will be discussing the issue of transitions, which are strategic for our territories. And we want to position the debate on just transitions as essential, obviously, in this region, which, as we know, is the most unequal region on the planet and the region that has also been the most affected by COVID-19. Remember, our entire region represents just under 9% of the world's population, and we had more than 30% of the COVID-19 cases. A pandemic that obviously consolidated the trends in inequality, in the concentration of wealth, in the growing and scandalous impoverishment that Latin America and the Caribbean are suffering today, and which implies greater vulnerability for large segments of the population. And if we add to all of that the phenomena associated with violence and, of course, climate change and environmental issues, it gives us this critical panorama.”
The Inaugural Conference followed: Just transitions in the context of a new Cold War. Towards a neocolonial Green New Deal?, By Edgar Lander y Ailton krenak.
VIERNES 30
CONVERSATION 1: Just Transitions in Latin America: Perspectives from a Gender Perspective
CONVERSATION 2: The intergenerational aspect in the search for climate justice in Latin America and the Caribbean
Open and free activity – Limited spaces
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