Hidden handbrakes for climate action and social justice hosted by SIDA
Scotland’s International Development Alliance (SIDA) invited IIED to present work exposing the hidden handbrakes to climate action and social justice to their members.
'Hidden handbrakes', such as investment tribunals that enable fossil fuel companies to claim US$80 billion of taxpayers’ money, are slowing down climate action
What is really hindering progress to tackle climate change? What are the obstacles that are inhibiting climate finance that might save people and planet?
IIED joined members of Scotland’s International Development Alliance for an action-focused workshop to introduce the critical hidden handbrakes, learn about potential funding opportunities for research, and explore where IIED’s existing work can support their campaigns or build coalitions to release specific handbrakes.
In this session, IIED shared more about the hidden handbrakes; the invisible obstacles that are inhibiting climate action, barriers that are ingrained in the way societies work and which we could all do more to expose and change.
IIED and the Generation Foundation are identifying and exploring the underlying systems of power that protect the status quo, and working with others to unlock the power of climate action.
Speakers
- Frances Guy, SIDA chief executive,
- James Persad (chair), IIED communications director
- May Aung, IIED senior researcher (climate finance)
- Paul Steele, IIED chief economist
- Ritu Bharadwaj, director of climate Resilience and loss and damage/ALL ACT
- Jon Sharman, IIED press officer
- Oliver Arnold-Richards (moderator), IIED strategic campaigns manager
Event coverage
Watch a full recording of the event below.
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Contact
Oliver Arnold-Richards ([email protected]), strategic campaigns manager, Communications Group
