Development Impacts of Climate Narratives

The aims of the project

We aim to organise a collaborative and targeted research workshop related to the project “Development Impacts of Climate Narratives”. In this initial workshop, researchers will discuss appropriate choice of case studies, innovative research questions and methodological challenges.

The aim is to design a collaborative research plan for investigating climate change discourse in relation to the poor. A key feature is to include voices both from the majority and the minority worlds in the project, and to integrate earth system science, social sciences and the humanities. Climate change is one of the most crucial challenges for our generation.

The project aims to find answers to the following overarching question: How do climate change discourse of various actors, globally and locally, relate to the also pressing challenge of global poverty?

We ask how climate narratives affect approaches to the poor and their rights, welfare achievements, and particularly rights related to resources affected by climate change impacts such as water, food and health.