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Special Seminar - Dr. Tracey Osborne "Realizing Climate Justice: Indigenous Action in the Amazon Rainforest"

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Please join us for a special seminar presented by Tracey Osborne, Ph.D. The seminar series will help build the research community in sustainable development and environmental justice in the New School Focused on Climate and Sustainability.

 

Tracey Osborne, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Presidential Chair, Management of Complex Systems Department, University of California, Merced. 

 

Realizing Climate Justice: Indigenous Action in the Amazon Rainforest

 

Tropical forests represent an important climate change mitigation strategy, however current approaches have largely failed to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and have produced problematic local outcomes. In this presentation, Dr. Osborne will share the conceptual framework for an innovative climate change mitigation project developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The project takes a climate justice approach which treats climate change as a social justice issue, incorporating Western and Indigenous knowledge to address the main drivers of deforestation and climate change. Involving a diverse collaborative team of Indigenous technicians and forest guards, environmental NGO staff, faculty, researchers, and students, the project aims to support Indigenous plans for community wellbeing as well as the University of California’s carbon neutrality goals. The intention is to develop a model for Indigenous-led climate change mitigation that is viable for the larger Amazon Rainforest and tropical forests worldwide.

 

The seminar will be in-person in Y2E2 300, Monday, April 18 at 12pm. There will not be a hybrid option, but the talk will be recorded for those in the Stanford community who cannot attend in person. 

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