Title: International Protection of People Fleeing Effects of Climate Change 

Climate change, recognized as a serious international concern for decades, was never as visible and threatening as it is today. Its impacts have profound implications for human societies, especially in regions already vulnerable due to poverty, inequality, or political instability. The 2023 UN Secretary-General’s Policy Brief on A New Agenda for Peace recognizes that the uneven suffering created by climate change ranks among the greatest injustices of this world. This seminar will discuss legal responsibilities of States and the international community to take measures reducing the necessity of migration due to climate change and ensure fundamental rights to those already forcibly displaced due to its adverse impacts. The presenter will argue that the notion of climate change emergency is inadequate, and suggest a paradigmatic shift to adequately address new realities, as the adverse impacts of climate change are not, and must not be tackled as, a one-off event. 

Title: Habituated to Denial

Povzetek prispevka: The article discusses the mechanisms of climate change denial. It starts from the observation that habituation to denial is based on a process that is exactly the opposite on the content level: the process of repeated aha-experiences, i.e., sudden insights into reality of the climate crisis. In the first part, the author summarises the developments of recent years, which came to a symbolic end at COP 28 in Dubai, when the President introduced the contradictory idea that the transition to a sustainable paradigm is only possible by simultaneously maintaing the fossil fuel paradigm. In the second part, the article summarises some of the main points of what was probably the first interdisciplinary symposium on climate change, organised in 1975 by Margaret Mead. Referring to the conference’s position paper, the author first develops the basic framework for productive interaction between the social and natural sciences as Mead envisioned it and then presents the social consequences of the fact that the relationship remained institutionally disorganised—and eventually had to organise itself.

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