Henry Shue, Javier Lezaun, Thom Wetzer, Lavanya Rajamani and Steve Smith in Conversation: "Climate justice & achieving Net Zero"

22 February 2021

Portrait of Dr Javier Lezaun

with Dr Javier Lezaun
 James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance

Javier Lezaun is a James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance; Lead Researcher at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and Fellow of Kellogg College.Dr Lezaun's researc...

Portrait of Professor Thom Wetzer

with Professor Thom Wetzer
 Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme

Thom Wetzer is Associate Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Oxford and the Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. At Oxford, Thom is also a Fellow of Linacre College, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New...

Portrait of Professor Lavanya Rajamani

with Professor Lavanya Rajamani
 Professor of International Environmental Law

Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor of International Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Yamani Fellow in Public International Law, St Peter's College, Oxford. She was formerly a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New ...

This discussion in the Oxford Net Zero Series, hosted by the Oxford Martin School, turns the spotlight on the climate justice aspects of the research programme on Net Zero.

Join Oxford academics from the Department of Politics and International Relations, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, and Faculty of Law - Henry Shue, Javier Lezaun, Thom Wetzer and Lavanya Rajamani - as they discuss with the Chair, Dr Steve Smith, the equity, justice and distributive aspects of reducing and removing GHG emissions in pursuit of Net Zero.

The discussion will explore the crucial importance of (and opportunities for including) justice and distributive aspects in the framing and operationalisation of the Paris Agreement's global temperature goal and Net Zero in an unequal world.