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Decade Zero: The fight for justice for people and planet
More than 500,000 people take part in the Montreal Climate March. Image: Marc Bruxelle/Shutterstock.
Join us for the first Sussex Development Lecture for the 2025-26 academic year with Asad Rehman, Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth – a leading UK-based environmental organisation working to create a sustainable future.
Our climate and ecological systems are unravelling at an unprecedented speed, further amplifying the growing crises of inequality that is fuelling the rise of the far right and authoritarianism. But despair is not an option.
Drawing on his journey from a working-class community to the frontlines of global climate justice, Asad Rehman will explore how the environmental movement must become a radical force. Arguing that this requires confronting inequality, challenging the systems that fuel both poverty and planetary breakdown, and showing that climate justice is inseparable from economic and social justice.
Asad will share that far from retreating, now is the moment to double down – to build grassroots power, rebuild international solidarity, be explicitly anti-racist and internationalism and hold on to hope as a tool of resistance and transformation.
This talk will make the case that fighting for climate justice is not just about saving the planet, but about the right for all peoples to be able to live with dignity and in harmony with a thriving planet.
Speaker
Asad Rehman, Chief Executive, Friends of the Earth.
Chair
Barbara Crossouard, Professor of Theory in Education, Director of the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex.
How to watch
You can attend in person or register to watch online on Zoom.
Accessibility
This event will take place in the IDS Convening Space which is on the 1st floor of the IDS Building. If you need to use a lift then press floor 1a.
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