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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, March 07, 2024 6:30 pm to 9:00 
 pm \n Paul Cadario Conference Centre \n University College \n 15 King's Co
 llege Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H7 \n\nSpeakers \nKundan Kumar \n\nDescri
 ption: \nJohn Bousfield Public Lecture Series: Nature Based Solutions and 
 Climate Justice — Presented by Kundan Kumar.  Join us at the Paul Cadario 
 Conference Centre (University College) on Thursday, March 7th from 6:30 -
  9:00pm — reception with refreshments to follow discussion.    Event Abstr
 act Nature based solutions (NBS), which draw upon the capacities of ecolo
 gical systems to sequester and drawdown greenhouse gases, are critical to
  achieve global climate targets, estimated to meet up to 37% of the 2030 
 mitigation targets. NBS include strategies such as planting trees, conser
 ving and restoring ecosystems, and adopting sustainable land management p
 ractices.   This talk examines justice aspects of NBS for climate mitigati
 on to highlight the substantial risks as well as opportunities for vulnera
 ble communities, particularly Indigenous Peoples. Market based NBS can en
 hance risks of exclusion and dispossession of vulnerable communities and c
 reate a double jeopardy of climate injustice over and above the unfair imp
 acts of climate change. While well-designed NBS interventions can strength
 en nature stewardship by local communities and Indigenous Peoples’ and lea
 d to better climate mitigation and justice outcomes. As a practitioner eng
 aged with environmental justice movements in the Global South, I will hig
 hlight the risks and opportunities posed by NBS for vulnerable communities
  and possible policy measures for more just outcomes.    About Kundan Kuma
 r Kundan Kumar has worked for two and a half decades as a scholar-practiti
 oner, activist, and advocate for environmental justice, territorial and
  land rights of Indigenous Peoples and other marginalised communities, an
 d community-led conservation. Working at local to global scales, his care
 er includes work with grassroots initiatives, experience with development
  banking and planning, and regional and global level engagement with land
  tenure issues, conservation, and climate change with a focus on equity\
 , justice and mobilisation of marginalised peoples. He currently advises t
 he Indigenous Unit at FAO (UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization) as a C
 limate and Conservation Expert, supporting the unit’s research and advoca
 cy efforts on the importance of Indigenous Peoples’ mobilities, mobile li
 velihoods, and collective rights for biodiversity conservation. Prior to 
 this, from 2014-2021 he worked with the Rights & Resources Initiative (RR
 I) as the Director of Asia Programs, leading RRI’s policy and grassroots 
 interventions relating to Indigenous Peoples’ collective rights over land 
 and forests in Asia. From 2009-2014, he worked the Department of Geograph
 y & Planning and the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto as a
 n Assistant Professor (CLTA). He completed his PhD in Resource Development
  from Michigan State University in 2010, after an extensive career in dev
 elopment banking and work with environmental justice movements in India.  
 Given the intertwined crisis of capitalism and planetary systems, Kundan’
 s recent engagement with Indigenous Peoples and other marginalised communi
 ties focuses on climate and environmental justice. Kundan has worked on ho
 w the proposed “nature-based solutions (NBS)” such as 30X30 (setting aside
  30% of geographical area for conservation by 2030), net zero and other i
 nitiatives for climate mitigation threaten to create new enclosures and in
 tensify dispossession, and marginalisation of vulnerable communities. As 
 climate crises intensify, the risk of harm to vulnerable peoples from jus
 tice-agnostic planning for climate mitigation and adaptation are likely to
  increase, as heightened sense of crisis is used to undermine democracy a
 nd justice. As a Bousfield Fellow, Kundan would continue to focus on just
 ice implications of various climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives\
 , especially Nature-Based solutions, seeking to improve connections betwe
 en practice and theory of climate and environmental justice. In addition,
  Kundan will work on pathways for increased attention on Climate and Envir
 onmental Justice in Planning curricula.  \n15 King's College Circle, Toro
 nto, ON M5S 3H7 \n\nCategories \n John Bousfield Public Lecture Series \n
 \nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsPlanning StudentsUndergraduate StudentsPu
 blicCommunityFaculty
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LOCATION:15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
SUMMARY:John Bousfield Public Lecture Series: Nature Based Solutions and Cl
 imate Justice
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.geography.utoronto.ca/events/john-bousfield-public
 -lecture-series-nature-based-solutions-and-climate-justice
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