BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Centre for Climate Justice//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Centre for Climate Justice - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230304T2341Z-1677973273.0741-EO-15860-45@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260418T154428Z CREATED:20230303T071632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T072300Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230316T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230316T150000 SUMMARY: Fiscal Justice for Caribbean Climate Action By Patrick Bigger DESCRIPTION: In the midst of the cascading emergencies that commentators ha ve termed the polycrisis\, two of the most serious\, pressing\, and apparen tly intractable components are the impacts of climate change on vulnerable countries and sovereign fiscal distress. Perhaps no world region illustrate s the complicated interactions of these crises as clearly as the Caribbean. Damaging colonial legacies […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
In the midst of the cascading emergencie s that commentators have termed the polycrisis\, two of the most serious\, pressing\, and apparently intractable components are the impacts of climate change on vulnerable countries and sovereign fiscal distress. Perhaps no w orld region illustrates the complicated interactions of these crises as cle arly as the Caribbean. Damaging colonial legacies and ongoing political eco nomic relations of fiscal extraction are tightly linked to existential thre ats of intensifying storms\, sea level rise\, and loss of marine biodiversi ty. This talk will present quantitative data on how fiscal resources are ex tracted from Caribbean countries through predatory debt service and tax rul es\, and how those fiscal flows compare to the projected costs of climate a ction. We survey existing financial flows designated for climate action and evaluate them against alternative visions of how climate finance could be allocated. Using this comparison\, our project assesses “PACC 2030\,” the p rimary US policy framework  regarding Caribbean climate action – which larg ely retreads the failed climate finance approaches of the last 15 years\, a s opposed to building a more reparative\, ‘worldmaking’ mode of climate act ion. We will conclude with some reflections on the next phase of this proje ct\, in particular\, engaging with Caribbean civil society to articulate a worldmaking approach to reparative climate finance.
Patrick Bigger 
Patrick (he/him) is the Research Director at the Climate and Community Project (CC P). Prior to joining CCP he was a Lecturer in Economic Geography at Lancast er University in the UK and holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Kentucky. His scholarly research focused on the creation and regulation of new financial mechanisms by governments\, financiers\, and NGOs that try t o reconcile capitalism’s environmental and economic contradictions. He has written extensively on these issues in academic journals including Science\ ; Nature: Ecology and Evolution\; and Transactions of the Institute of Brit ish Geographers\, as well as other outlets including The Nation and The Con versation. At CCP his research focuses domestically on Green Industrial Pol icy\, and globally on fiscal justice and reparations for climate action. LOCATION:Room 215D - Geography Building GEO:49.266015;-123.256222 URL;VALUE=URI:https://climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event/fiscal-justice-for -caribbean-climate-action-by-patrick-bigger/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cfcj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2023/03/PB_M16.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 DTSTART:20230312T100000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR