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[Anthony Levenda]

Dear EESG community,

This upcoming webinar looked fantastic! 

Best,

Anthony

Date:    Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:42:33 +0000
From:    Benjamin Sovacool <B.Sov...@SUSSEX.AC.UK>
Subject: Energy & Climate Seminar Series - Jennie Stephens - Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy

Come join us next week for a very exciting seminar!

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Dear all

Details for next week's Energy & Climate seminar are below. All are welcome to join.

Find out about the Sussex Energy Group Keynote<https://www.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/research/events/seg-keynote> 17.02 5.30-6.30pm.

Tuesday 2nd of February
13:00-1400 online
Speaker: Jennie Stephens

Title: Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy
Abstract
The climate crisis is a crisis of leadership. For too long too many leaders have prioritized corporate profits over the public good, exacerbating climate vulnerabilities while reinforcing economic and racial injustice. Transformation to a just, sustainable renewable-based society requires leaders who connect social justice to climate and energy.

During the Trump era, connections among white supremacy, environmental destruction, and fossil fuel dependence have become more conspicuous. Many of the same leadership deficiencies that shaped the inadequate response in the United States to the coronavirus pandemic have also thwarted the US response to the climate crisis. The inadequate and ineffective framing of climate change as a narrow, isolated, discrete problem to be "solved" by technical solutions is failing. The dominance of technocratic, white, male perspectives on climate and energy has inhibited investments in social change and social innovations. With new leadership and diverse voices, we can strengthen climate resilience, reduce racial and economic inequities, and promote social justice.

In Diversifying Power, energy expert Jennie Stephens argues that the key to effectively addressing the climate crisis is diversifying leadership so that antiracist, feminist priorities are central.  All politics is now climate politics, so all policies, from housing to health, now have to integrate climate resilience and renewable energy.

Biography
Jennie C. Stephens' research, teaching, and community engagement focus on social-political aspects of renewable energy transformation, energy democracy, climate resilience, reducing fossil-fuel reliance, gender diversity in energy and climate, and social, economic and racial justice in climate and energy policy. Before coming to Northeastern, she taught at University of Vermont, Clark University, Tufts and MIT.

Topic: SEG Seminar
Time: Feb 9, 2021 01:00 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting
https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/97107966277?pwd=SXVTck5zd3U2YWlJbSt4cnFKZXlVdz09

Meeting ID: 971 0796 6277
Passcode: 430792

Francisco Dominguez
Research Support and Communications Assistant
Sussex Energy Group<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/research/themes/sussexenergygroup> and Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium<http://www.tipconsortium.net/>

Science Policy Research Unit
329 Jubilee Building
University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9SL
+44 (0)1273 678166

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