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U.N. Week 2020: Climate Change and Economic/Environmental Justice
Faculty and Trustee Hector De La Torre ’89 in the Climate Change for Future Presidents Panel
Climate Change and Economic/Environmental Justice was the theme of this year’s Kahane U.N. Week. We organized the week’s events to underscore that addressing climate change must be taken as an environmental and economic challenge. It is imperative to envision a just, equitable economic transition to clean energy. In line with the Young Initiative’s commitment to interdisciplinary approaches, we used the week to show how this concern intersects with work being done in disciplines across campus, from the arts, social sciences, and sciences. This was evidenced from our kickoff event of Adam Schoenberg’s Losing Earth concerto to panels and events that included the participation of professors from the Art and Art History, Biology, Diplomacy and World Affairs, Geology, Economics, Music, Physics, and Urban and Environmental Policy Departments. Specific events were co-sponsored by academic departments and by the Center for Research and Scholarship, the FEAST Garden, Food Studies Program, and KOXY Radio.
For more information, see https://www.oxy.edu/events/2020/02/kahane-un-week-2020-climate-changeeconomicenvironmental-justice
