Radical Ecology

A Framework for Environmental Justice is a report that reflects two years of conversations held under the banner of the Black Atlantic Innovation Network (BAIN) - co-convened by Radical Ecology and UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre. Through BAIN, we have sought to bring practitioners together from across some of the UK’s leading cultural and heritage organisations and to facilitate a shared understanding across these sectors about how, through programmatic work as well as through attention to the operational culture of our public institutions, we can begin to confront the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Our report takes stock of the present moment, drawing lessons from organisational journeys in-process that can support growth and change for the future. Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eCgGetjF BAIN has been funded by UCL Innovation & Enterprise through Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, and by Open Society Foundations, The Lankellychase Foundation and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. National Trust Southbank Centre Plymouth Culture Ashish Ghadiali

🥳NEW PAPER: “#LossAndDamage as the Third Pillar of #ClimateAction:  Delivering a #LossAndDamage Sub-Goal Under the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) at #COP29”. 🎉 🔗Read it here: https://lnkd.in/e5BuJnsP 🇺🇳 At #COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿—  a New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) will be set.💰🗣️⚖️ 💰The #NCQG will replace the US$ 100 billion goal set at #COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, and is necessary to enable developing countries to meet the goals of the #ParisAgreement including limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. 🌡️ 📢 To achieve #ClimateJustice and #Equity ⚖️, the #NCQG must address all three pillars of #ClimateAction  —#Mitigation, #Adaptation and #LossAndDamage— through dedicated sub-goals 🎯 with clear financial commitments. 💰 🧐This structure will ensure the #NCQG delivers #Accountability ✅, #Clarity 🧊, and #Justice ⚖️, enabling developing countries to meet the growing and disproportionate climate risks they face in the face of an escalating #ClimateCrisis and its #LossAndDamage. 🔥🌊🌡️🏝️🌪️ ⚖️ #IntergenerationalEquity and #HumanRights must be central to the #NCQG, ensuring that today's #ClimateFinance decisions uphold the rights of current and future generations, including the rights to a healthy environment 🌱, life ❤️, development 🏗️, and many more. 🧐To support the achievement of a high ambition #NCQG, this paper provides analysis and detailed guidance in the following key areas: 1. Defining the #NCQG in the context of an escalating #ClimateCrisis; 🔥 2. The historical context of #ClimateFinance and its relevance to the #NCQG; 🏦 3. The link between the #NCQG and achieving the 1.5°C goal of the #ParisAgreement; 🌡️ 4. Progress to date on the draft negotiating text for the #NCQG, including an overview of what is yet to be agreed; 📜 5. The positions of developing and developed countries on #NCQG elements and the articulation of needs, including a typology of developed country delay and obfuscation tactics; 🤯 6. Arguments for a #LossAndDamage sub-goal under the #NCQG; 🗣️ 7. The total quantum of the #NCQG and allocations for #Mitigation, #Adaptation and #LossAndDamage; 💰 8. The proportion of grants for #Adaptation and #LossAndDamage; 🪙 9. Concessional finance; 💳 10. #Equity, #Justice and burden sharing; ⚖️ 11. Transparency and accountability; 🧊 12. The importance of a #ClimateFinance definition, including guidance on a framework for a definition and a negative list of what should not be counted as #ClimateFinance; ✅🚫 13. Article 2.1 (c) of the #ParisAgreement and the #NCQG; 🫠 14. Enhancing access to #ClimateFinance under the #NCQG; 🏧 15. #HumanRights and intergenerational #Equity and the #NCQG; and; ⚖️ 16. The #NCQG as a catalyst for #Equity and ambition. 💪 [Continues in the next comment]

Thanks so much to Esmée Fairbairn Foundation for including us in this programme amongst such brilliant POC-led organisations 🙏🏾🙏🏾

WELCOME TO OUR STUDIO! 👋 We're excited to open our studio doors for the first time this week, when we invite you to join us for a rolling screening of the 1985 conversation between Audre Lorde and the Late Start collective (Viv Bietz, Shaheen Haq, Pratibha Parmar, Ingrid Pollard) - ahead of our celebration screening and discussion at The Green Table on 22 November (tickets here: https://lnkd.in/d2hWe4z9?). Come by, say hello and check out the film over the next fortnight from 9.30am 'til 1.30pm, Tuesday to Friday. We're right next door to The Almond Thief where you can pick up coffee and bakery treats ☕ 📅 Tue-Fri, 7-15 November 🕘 9.30am-1.30pm 📍 Radical Ecology studio, 1b Cedar Units, Webbers Yard, Dartington 🎟️ free entry Image: film stills courtesy Cinenova Distribution

GEOLOGY, WATER AND LIBERATION IN THE LANDSCAPE Read our new newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eD7h_iJE Subscribe at: https://lnkd.in/ef2j_PBA

We’re delighted to be working on two new contracts with Natural England which will keep us busy until March 2025. The first investigates post-plantation ecology within South Devon’s Dart River ecosystem, the second explores art-science collaboration with Natural England’s e-DNA monitoring team. We look forward to sharing more on these collaborations in the months ahead. Film: Ashish Ghadiali

Earlier this summer I had the pleasure of talking with Banu Subramaniam, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College - for a Radical Ecology webinar, connected with our exhibition, Invasion Ecology, which took place at Southcombe Barn on Dartmoor from May until August. Banu was our muse, no less. Great to now see the recorded conversation recommended by It's Freezing in LA! who have this to say about it: "Ashish Ghadiali and Banu Subramaniam talk all things activist science and entanglements. 🌱 A month ago, Ashish Ghadiali, recent IFLA! contributor and the founder of the brilliant Radical Ecology, sat down with plant evolutionary biologist and feminist scholar Banu Subramaniam to talk about experimental biology, activist science and the entanglement of plant, animal and human histories. In the talk, Banu begins by reflecting on the similarities and parallels between the discussions of ‘invasive species’ and that of the immigration process. In light of the disgusting, racist, anti-immigration riots happening across the UK a few weeks ago, this conversation is an exploration of the power of language and narratives of belonging." Link to the vimeo page in the comments, where you can listen to the conversation in full.

The Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) talks to Radical Ecology director Ashish Ghadiali and other inspiring leaders in this new guide to careers for the climate.

ANNOUNCING DIVERSITY IN GARDENS (DIG) Diversity in Gardens (DIG) is a collaboration between Radical Ecology, The Apricot Centre, and Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support (DCRS), aspiring to provide diverse communities with access to leading-edge land-based projects. The project is rooted in the understanding that the principle of diversity is essential to the regeneration of land, lives, and livelihoods and aims to break down systemic inequities by providing access to nature for marginalised communities. DIG’s pilot programme, running from February to June 2024, invites communities including refugees, asylum seekers, young people, BAME communities, and other marginalised groups, to experience local green spaces throughout the seasons. The programme not only focuses on growing, harvesting, and eating together and developing hands-on experience in local green spaces, but also celebrates cultural stories around food. Initially focusing on Torbay and Plymouth, the network aims to expand sustainably through existing relationships with UK cultural and heritage organisations. Find out more about DIG: https://lnkd.in/ezNK62sm