COP 30 – People’s Summit
Panel
“Right to the City and Climate Justice: how to advance participatory governance towards cities and territories that care for people and the environment”
- Organization: Global Platform for the Right to the City, Instituto Pólis , National Forum for Urban Reform (Brazil)
- Duration: 2 hours
Context
Currently more than 80% of the Latin American population lives in urban centers. Over the centuries, cities have been both hubs for greenhouse gas emissions, which directly contribute to climate change, and centers of direct impact of the adverse effects of these same changes, especially on the most vulnerable groups, such as women, children and adolescents, the elderly, peripheral and racialized communities, migrants, among others.
At the same time, disasters and other effects of climate change in rural, peri-urban and even urban territories give rise to various forms of human (i)mobility (migration and forced displacement) towards cities, as well as forced displacement and relocation of vulnerable populations within the cities themselves, often without adequate support from governments or guarantee of rights. Many cities lack sufficient infrastructure and services for these new populations, which leads to the occupation of risky areas, perpetuating the precariousness, exclusion and discrimination of the most vulnerable groups.
Despite this scenario, there is still little discussion about the interconnections between the urban and climate fields, and a more qualified debate is urgently needed to catalyze transformations in the way we produce and organize our cities, from the perspective of human rights, the right to the city and care. This is because these perspectives allow for a territorialized view of the effects and causes of climate change in cities, based on the guarantee of rights, democratic management and fair sustainable development, thus inserting care as a central paradigm in urban planning. It is not possible to promote climate justice without guaranteeing the right to the city and the right to care for all people and the environment, based on climate governance that recognizes and includes the experiences, strategies and knowledge from the territories.
Objective: This panel will seek to reflect on the interconnection of these concepts (climate justice, right to the city, right to care and human mobility), based on the logic of democratic city management and truly participatory and community-based climate action.
Preliminary agenda:
Moderator: Cássia Caneco (Polis Institute)
- Kelly Agopyan (Polis Institute and Global Platform for the Right to the City)
Climate justice and the right to the city for cities of care
- Areli Sandoval (International Coalition for Habitat in Latin America – HIC-AL)
Climate justice from the experiences of urban communities in Latin America
- Bartiria Costa (National Confederation of Residents’ Associations – CONAM)
Climate justice and the right to housing in urban centers
- aZenaida Lauda-Rodríguez (South American Network for Environmental Migration – RESAMA)
Climate justice and human (im)mobilities in the urban context
- Jurema Werneck (Amnesty International)
Climate Justice, Human Rights and Living Peripheries