Climate Justice Made in Kassel - How Climate Crisis, Inequalities and Racism are Interrelated

On Friday, April 9, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., the next event in the series "Climate Talks - Our Kassel 2030" will take place, organized by the regional group of Scientists for Future in cooperation with the Staatstheater Kassel.

What does it actually mean to make climate protection intersectional? And why is it so important? How exactly are climate crisis, inequalities and racism connected? Geo Kocheril (Scientists for Future) moderates the fourth Climate Conversation and links global climate justice issues and problems with the local level together with the experts Imeh Ituen (social scientist and activist, University of Hamburg), Franziska Müller (professor with a focus on global climate policy, University of Hamburg) and Awet Tesfaiesus (local politician and lawyer). What are the solutions to equitable participation and representativeness for achieving climate neutrality? The audience will also be allowed to weigh in. As usual, the event will be livestreamed on the YouTube channel of the Staatstheater Kassel.

Kassel, we need to talk!

The Kassel Scientists for Future (S4F Kassel) and the Staatstheater Kassel - with the initiator team of dramaturg Julia Hagen, actor Tim Czerwonatis and scientist Geo Kocheril - have joined forces and conceived the event series "Climate Talks - Our Kassel 2030", to which the entire city society is invited. Together with experts from scientific fields such as environmental psychology, economics, energy and systems science, they want to present findings from research and practice, discuss the role of art and culture in the fight against climate change and enter into a conversation with citizens about the future of the city of Kassel.

Scientific findings will be used to provide active education and advice, to propose concrete options for action, and also to point out consequences and opportunities for shaping climate policy for a better Kassel 2030.

Scientists for Future (S4F) is an initiative of scientists* that published a broadly agreed, science-based statement on climate change and appropriate countermeasures in March 2019. 26,800 scientists* from Germany, Austria and Switzerland signed the statement. This is to explicitly affirm the demands of the Fridays for Future movement of students* for a different climate policy and to objectify the dialogue with politics and society through scientifically validated findings.

S4F is subdivided into regional groups that work in individual cities and regions to bring scientific expertise into politics and society. S4F sees itself as a non-institutional, non-partisan and interdisciplinary association of scientists who are committed to a sustainable future. The regional group S4F Kassel was founded in August 2019 and consists of more than 150 members, mainly from the University of Kassel and the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology.

All information at www.scientists4future.org and  https://www.staatstheater-kassel.de/programm/a-z/klimagespraeche-unser-kassel-2030/

Live stream: https://youtu.be/qJYSmgxahMY

For queries, please contact: presse@staatstheater-kassel.de,  kassel@scientists4future.org