About the seminar
In the near future, climate change will affect the territories of millions. The territorial impacts of climate change will range from states losing their entire land to sub-state collectives being displaced or forced to change the ways in which they use their lands.
This will happen both as a direct consequence of climate change (through extreme weather events and shifting long-term climate patterns), and as a result of policies for mitigating climate change (like afforestation, the use of carbon capture and storage technologies, and the transformation of agricultural land into crop plantations for biofuel).
In this seminar, we offer an overview of how philosophers have discussed these and other justice-related issues to climate change and territory, and we gesture at some topics that remain under-researched from a philosophical perspective.