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- 1. Transformations to sustainability - pathways and politics Melissa Leach
- 2. Source: Raworth 2012, based on Rockström et al 2009 ‘Steering pathways within a safe and just space for humanity’ Scoones et al 2015
- 3. Source: Leach, Raworth and Rockström (WSSR 2013) Multiple possible pathways Plural transformations
- 4. Politicising the directions of transformation Whose boundaries? Whose safety? Whose goals? Sustainability & resilience of what for whom? Which pathways? Choosing and shaping interlocked with power Who gains, who loses? Planetary boundaries as power grab, undermining justice and democracy?
- 5. Drivers of transformation • Technology-led • Market-led • State-led • Citizen-led • Transformative alliances, hybrid governance
- 6. 6 Citizen-led transformations – building from grassroots innovation, mobilisation and collective action, scaling up through networks Slum and shack dwellers’ networks Food sovereignty and agroecology
- 7. 7 Transformative alliances – novel relationships between state, market and societal actors that challenge and rework political, economic and social structures Zero carbon energy Ecological agriculture
- 8. 8 Emergent pathways – involving alignments in diverse bottom- up marginal interests; small changes can add up to big ones
- 9. 9 Transformational politics, engaged social science Challenging unsustainable and unjust pathways, appreciating alternatives, facilitating transformational pathways Bottom-up as well as top-down Plural – to respect and respond to diverse perspectives and contexts Deliberative – fostering inclusive, democratic debate around goals, and means to get there Networked and alliance-based – combining formal and informal processes, planning and mobilisation, leadership and distributed action Politically-engaged – challenging and shifting political-economic structures; influencing policy processes; mobilising Reflexive knowledge and political engagements - in which we take our positionality seriously, and encourage this in others
- 10. Social Transformations on the Path to 1.5⁰C Susi Moser, Ph.D. Susanne Moser Research & Consulting Stanford University
- 11. % Nominations by expertise: Physical climate Ethics & equity Psychosocial underpinnings Impacts T. pathways Policy instruments Mitigation/ adaptation
- 12. Between the Impossible and the Unthinkable “That is where we are: Stuck between the impossible and the unthinkable. David Roberts, Ted talk (2012) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznsPkJy2x8 And so for the rest of your life, your job is to make the impossible possible.”
- 13. It always seems impossible, until it’s done. Nelson Mandela Photo:Mandela:TheManandHisCountry
- 14. Holding the Tension Photo: from ifcat.org
- 15. When an old culture is dying the new culture is born from a few people who are not afraid to be insecure. Rudolf Bahro (German activist) Bartel Thorvaldsen's Dying Lion
- 16. Shaping Our Response Bottom-up Top-down GlobalLocal Fast Slow Nonlinear, Disruptive Radical/deepAdaptive Linked GROWING CLIMATE DISRUPTION
- 17. Science for an epic challenge: science beyond the mainstream • History • Sociology • Anthropology & paleo- sciences • Psychology • Philosophy • …
- 18. Entering The Long Emergency If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together. African proverb And if you need to go far fast …