Xiaohongshu
This panel explores how environmental challenges and climate change intersect with social inequalities related to race, gender, class, disability, and global location. Bringing together researchers, practitioners, and community leaders, the discussion will examine how environmental harms and benefits are distributed unevenly, and why an intersectional lens is essential for developing fair and effective sustainability solutions.
Panellists will share insights from policy, activism, and lived experience, highlighting case studies from local and global contexts. The session will also consider how universities, institutions, and future leaders can embed environmental justice principles into decision‑making, research, and leadership practice. Designed to be interactive and reflective, this panel invites participants to think critically about power, accountability, and solidarity in the transition to a more just and sustainable world.
Speakers: Chair: Emma River-Roberts, Founder & Co-Director, Working Class Climate Alliance, Sophie Marple, Co-Founder, Mothers CAN, Maimoni Ubrei-Joe, Founding member & Director of Climate and Energy Justice, Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN), Parisa Wright, Sustainability & Inclusion Director, Sustainability Wright, Nnenna Belia Onwuka, Feminist Climate Justice Policy Campaigner, WEN (Women's Environment Network)