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From: Madhavi Latha <madhavi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:57 AM
Subject: Talk by Aravindhan Nagarajan on December 20, 2019 (Friday) at
03:45pm
To: Madhavi Latha <madhavi@xxxxxxxxx>
You are cordially invited to a talk titled
*Climate Change, Agriculture, and Meat consumption*
*The burden of mitigation and consumption standards on the developing world*
By
* Aravindhan Nagarajan*
*Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.*
Date & Time: December 20, 2019 at 03:45 pm
Venue: ATREE Auditorium
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*Abstract*
The Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), was recently adopted
at the 50th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
at Geneva. Subsequent to the release of the report, a growing number of
policy makers and international commentators have called for widespread
changes to how we deal with the question of agriculture and climate change.
These measures include reducing GHG emissions in agriculture and changing
dietary habits (reducing meat consumption and food wastage). This talk
analyses the basis of such recommendations made within the SRCCL, in terms
of existing empirical evidence, methodological concerns in analysis, and
its larger policy implications for the developing world.
By doing so it highlights three broad concerns. The first is that with
regards to agriculture and climate change, this report provides a basis for
a shift in global priorities from climate adaptation to climate mitigation.
Secondly, the report prioritises consumption patterns and lifestyles
(dietary habits) over structural transformations in agriculture as a means
to deal with climate change. Finally, (and as a consequence of the first
two) it undermines the question of equity, because it is the developing
world, (and its working poor) who will disproportionately bear the dual
burden of climate mitigation and fall in (already poor) consumption
standards.
*About the speaker*
Aravindhan Nagarajan is Senior Lecturer at the School of Development at the
Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He is currently pursuing his PhD from
the School of Habitat Studies at TISS, Mumbai. His research work is on
industrial sustainability and plastic recycling in the unorganised sector.
His other research interests include Climate Change policy, risk and
uncertainty, and technological adoption
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*Tea/coffee will be served downstairs at 03:30pm*
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Madhavi Latha G
The Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur PO
Bangalore 560064, India
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Madhavi Latha G
The Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur PO
Bangalore 560064, India
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Phone: +91-80-23635555 Extn: 121
Fax: +91-80-23530070
E-mail: madhavi@xxxxxxxxx
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