Webinar on ‘Mobilizing Collective Action to Address Climate Change: Prospects and Challenges’

31 MARCH 2022   

This is the tenth in a series of webinars organized by the Bahá’í Chair on the social and economic impact of the pandemic on vulnerable populations in India’s urban and rural areas. The question of climate change is being considered in the context of the ecological crisis that led to the emergence of zoonotic diseases such as the SARS Cov2 virus.

How is this level of collective consciousness and collective action for the climate to be stimulated and sustained? In an era when trust in institutions of governance has been significantly eroded, how can institutions emerge that would win the trust and provide the
leadership in guiding and coordinating this movement towards change? How can those who are economically underprivileged, socially marginalized and those who are most vulnerable to climate change participate fully in this process of change, with their perspective given priority and their interests secured? How can faith in science and commitment to moral principles guide the process of learning that would advance this process of change? What kind of institutional structures would be needed to systematize and disseminate knowledge generated in local settings? These are some of the many complex and consequential questions
that this webinar will seek to explore.

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