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Responses to audience questions from our second Creative Climate Justice episode exploring\u00a0Loss and Damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[14,38],"resource_cat":[4],"class_list":["post-15405","jb_resources","type-jb_resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arts-council","tag-climate-justice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCreative Climate Justice Webinar \u2013 Loss and Damage Q&A - Julie's Bicycle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Below Q&A was taken from the latest webinar in our\u00a0Creative Climate Justice series. This second episode explored\u00a0the concept of\u00a0Loss and Damage, and how we respond to climate change\u00a0impacts that can\u2019t be prevented or recovered\u00a0(\u2018Losses\u2019) as well as those that\u00a0may be able to be restored\u00a0(\u2018Damage\u2019). You can listen back to the full session\u00a0here. Q: How can creative practitioners better contribute to research on NELD (Non-Economic Loss and Damage)? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): Creative practitioners are able to act not just as storytellers, but also as archivists of Loss and Damage, especially the things that aren\u2019t economically quantifiable. We can do this by\u00a0documenting knowledges in languages and cultural practices that are being lost. For example,\u00a0N\u2019dau Festival of the Arts\u00a0in Zimbabwe gathers and preserves Indigenous N\u2019dau knowledge and language. We could consider our relationship to colonial languages or ways of working, and whether what we are trying to communicate is actually best told in other ways. We can also document NELD in a way which makes things easier to understand for the public and to\u00a0platform perspectives of the people being impacted by high level policy. Artist and researcher\u00a0Angela Chan created\u00a0Rain Paradox\u00a0as a response to, and critique of, a 2020 report called\u00a0The Great\u00a0British Rain Paradox\u00a0warning of the UK\u2019s impending water scarcity crisis. Part of the process of this work includes\u00a0\u2018living room conversations\u2019\u00a0exploring a variety of water topics including cultural practices, scarcity, borders and migration. INTERPRT\u00a0is an organisation that uses\u00a0digital, geospatial mapping technologies\u00a0to document environmental and ecological damage, which are shared in public exhibitions, but also\u00a0form evidence in legal cases against environmental destruction. Q: How can we avoid creative work being used tokenistically \/ used as green wash during COP negotiations and instead have it valued as a form of research + way of communicating\u00a0 lived experience? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): I think this is about\u00a0asking difficult questions when developing partnerships and communications tools. As was pointed out during the session,\u00a0fossil fuel interests were more represented than Indigenous peoples at COP26. Think about who you\u2019re working with, and who they are working with \u2013 your wider ecosystem. Is it worth it to get a foot in the door or a platform? This is where I tend to see\u00a0artwork used as greenwash or used tokenistically, when the\u00a0size of the platform\u00a0or having household names for partners\u00a0is the most important measure\u00a0of success, especially to some funders. Instead, consider who doesn\u2019t have that kind of access and platform, and throw your weight behind them. Challenge the power structures at play constantly. Art is such a valuable medium for greenwashing, make your work too difficult to be used. Be prepared, have responses ready to call out when it is used by polluters in ways that aren\u2019t intended and don\u2019t align with your values. Consider using venues and spaces that aren\u2019t part of the main stages, but that can actively draw in others through protest, workshops, art, healing spaces. Most importantly,\u00a0consider the safety of the people who you are drawing on\u00a0for that \u2018lived experience\u2019. I met a number of\u00a0young activists from the Global South\u00a0who were invited to participate at\u00a0COP26, and are\u00a0now seeking asylum\u00a0because it is unsafe for them to return home after criticising their governments on a world stage. They told me\u00a0they felt let down by the organisations\u00a0who had invited them to participate but had nothing else in place for them. In trying to avoid being tokenised, don\u2019t tokenise others at the frontlines. Build long, authentic relationships that centre their needs. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle) I agree with Farah. From my experience in research, on the aspect of helping\u00a0creative work to be valued as a form of research, I think that engaging with researchers directly is really important to build their understanding of the value that this can bring \u2013 to open up thinking about new ways to engage with lived experiences and to\u00a0address the challenges that people face authentically. Often in the academic sphere, chances to collaborate or engage come in the form of a large new research programme, where creative work can be added-in tokenistically. This is often as a\u00a0bolt-on to an already planned project, without careful thought about its value, potential contribution and how to integrate this aspect within the core of the work to deliver that value.\u00a0This way opportunities to contribute can become sidelined from the \u2018main focus\u2019 of the work, and meaningful integration becomes very challenging. Nevertheless, developing more\u00a0direct relationships\u00a0with individual researchers or research teams\/groups that are\u00a0longer lasting\u00a0can allow opportunities to\u00a0collaborate and to demonstrate\u00a0the value of creativity in engaging with\u00a0key issues and lived experiences. By demonstrating value through meaningful collaborations, you can work with people whose values and motivations are known to you, and find interesting opportunities to further develop that research into a bigger project or programme of work, with creativity at its core. Q: I would like to know the speakers\u2019 thoughts on the issue of underlying drivers of vulnerability. The impacts of climate change and the loss & damages that may happen are especially the result of the conditions of the ground, on determinants of vulnerability created by capitalism, extractivism, colonialism and other forms of discrimination and exploitation. How do we claim the rightful demand of resources for L&D caused by climate change while at the same time addressing these underlying drivers? Through for example, reparation, abolition, repatriation, etc. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): For me the\u00a0underlying drivers of vulnerability\u00a0\u2013 the root causes \u2013 are the\u00a0same as the drivers of inequity and injustice. These centre on historical patterns of extraction and exploitation \u2013\u00a0\u00a0colonialism, capitalism, racism\u00a0\u2013 operating on a global scale, which have created legacies in the social, political and economic structures of regions and countries. They have determined the power dynamics, the material wealth, and dictated \u2013 through\u00a0structuring economies around resource extraction \u2013 the exposure of people in exploited countries to climate change. The\u00a0poorest and most marginalised groups\u00a0in society are\u00a0often rendered the most vulnerable, with the least access to wealth, power and resources, and with constrained choices in where to live and how to make a living.\u00a0These inequalities ultimately result in unequal life chances.\u00a0The Wisner at al., Pressure and Release model (from the book \u2018At Risk\u2019, 2004) depicts the progression of vulnerability from root causes to unsafe conditions and is a good resource. So, to address the loss and damage caused by climate change, we need to address\u00a0the root causes of loss and damage\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the failure of global policies in mitigation\u00a0that have not sufficiently reduced greenhouse gas emissions (or even set sufficient ambitions to meet the 1.5 degree target), and failure to support and finance adaptation adequately. This has resulted in loss and damages that are already being felt. These losses and damages are only going to increase as\u00a0mitigation and adaptation targets fail in their ambition and in their delivery\u00a0of promises for meaningful action. The impacts are borne by those rendered most vulnerable. To address loss and damage we need to\u00a0challenge existing powers and structures, and call for developed nations to accept responsibility for historical emissions and for emissions that they continue to generate disproportionately.\u00a0Developed nations must accept responsibility\u00a0for causing the climate crisis and act to deliver finances to people and countries most affected by loss and damage \u2013 not on a voluntary basis, but as an\u00a0essential reparation for the damage done. We need to call for this at the highest level, and to demand that developed nations accept responsibility and are held accountable. At a national and local level we can\u00a0scrutinise flows of finances\u00a0to those driving the crisis, divest from them, call out injustices, and support action groups and calls for action like the\u00a0polluter pays principle. Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): In a recent Common Wealth report, Harpreet Kaur Paul offers some thoughts on what this could look like. Check out\u00a0Towards Reparative Climate Justice: From Crises to Liberations.\u00a0Abolition, reparation, repatriation, etc, are all building blocks to climate justice. We need this radical overhaul of how we conceive of every part of our experience under Capitalism in order to free ourselves, and our planet, from its destruction. This is why culture is so important! Q: Could the panel discuss how the current economic systems are complicit in causing the crisis, and creative examples of economic alternatives which are beneficial to local communities? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): It\u2019s all about Capitalism!\u00a0And, importantly,\u00a0Capitalism couldn\u2019t have happened without Colonialism\u00a0and the theft of land, people and resources that fuelled industrialisation and continues to fuel consumption. It\u2019s difficult to point to alternative systems that are benefiting local communities because\u00a0everything is touched by Capitalism, but there are ways that people are responding. The Indian farmer protests over 2020-21 were a response to the economic system which allows corporations to patent nature and extract from vulnerable people for profit.\u00a0Strong, grassroots movements are truly incredible, and creativity is needed to keep those movements alive. In the wake of Covid, we saw the rise of mutual aid collectives.\u00a0Cooperation Jackson\u00a0in Mississippi, USA is a collective\u00a0designing a solidarity economy\u00a0based on mutual aid and worker owned cooperatives. The\u00a0Doughnut Economics Action Lab are working with Civic Square\u00a0in Birmingham, UK to trial a\u00a0\u2018neighbourhood doughnut system\u2019. They\u2019ve both partnered with peer-to-peer learning organisation\u00a0Enrol Yourself\u00a0for creative experimentation on this in practice.\u00a0Collaboration is the key to all of this work. I\u2019m always looking for more examples for case studies and resources, so please share your projects with me \u2013\u00a0farah@juliesbicycle.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/juliesbicycle.com\/resource\/loss-and-damage-webinar-qa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Creative Climate Justice Webinar \u2013 Loss and Damage Q&A - Julie's Bicycle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Below Q&A was taken from the latest webinar in our\u00a0Creative Climate Justice series. This second episode explored\u00a0the concept of\u00a0Loss and Damage, and how we respond to climate change\u00a0impacts that can\u2019t be prevented or recovered\u00a0(\u2018Losses\u2019) as well as those that\u00a0may be able to be restored\u00a0(\u2018Damage\u2019). You can listen back to the full session\u00a0here. Q: How can creative practitioners better contribute to research on NELD (Non-Economic Loss and Damage)? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): Creative practitioners are able to act not just as storytellers, but also as archivists of Loss and Damage, especially the things that aren\u2019t economically quantifiable. We can do this by\u00a0documenting knowledges in languages and cultural practices that are being lost. For example,\u00a0N\u2019dau Festival of the Arts\u00a0in Zimbabwe gathers and preserves Indigenous N\u2019dau knowledge and language. We could consider our relationship to colonial languages or ways of working, and whether what we are trying to communicate is actually best told in other ways. We can also document NELD in a way which makes things easier to understand for the public and to\u00a0platform perspectives of the people being impacted by high level policy. Artist and researcher\u00a0Angela Chan created\u00a0Rain Paradox\u00a0as a response to, and critique of, a 2020 report called\u00a0The Great\u00a0British Rain Paradox\u00a0warning of the UK\u2019s impending water scarcity crisis. Part of the process of this work includes\u00a0\u2018living room conversations\u2019\u00a0exploring a variety of water topics including cultural practices, scarcity, borders and migration. INTERPRT\u00a0is an organisation that uses\u00a0digital, geospatial mapping technologies\u00a0to document environmental and ecological damage, which are shared in public exhibitions, but also\u00a0form evidence in legal cases against environmental destruction. Q: How can we avoid creative work being used tokenistically \/ used as green wash during COP negotiations and instead have it valued as a form of research + way of communicating\u00a0 lived experience? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): I think this is about\u00a0asking difficult questions when developing partnerships and communications tools. As was pointed out during the session,\u00a0fossil fuel interests were more represented than Indigenous peoples at COP26. Think about who you\u2019re working with, and who they are working with \u2013 your wider ecosystem. Is it worth it to get a foot in the door or a platform? This is where I tend to see\u00a0artwork used as greenwash or used tokenistically, when the\u00a0size of the platform\u00a0or having household names for partners\u00a0is the most important measure\u00a0of success, especially to some funders. Instead, consider who doesn\u2019t have that kind of access and platform, and throw your weight behind them. Challenge the power structures at play constantly. Art is such a valuable medium for greenwashing, make your work too difficult to be used. Be prepared, have responses ready to call out when it is used by polluters in ways that aren\u2019t intended and don\u2019t align with your values. Consider using venues and spaces that aren\u2019t part of the main stages, but that can actively draw in others through protest, workshops, art, healing spaces. Most importantly,\u00a0consider the safety of the people who you are drawing on\u00a0for that \u2018lived experience\u2019. I met a number of\u00a0young activists from the Global South\u00a0who were invited to participate at\u00a0COP26, and are\u00a0now seeking asylum\u00a0because it is unsafe for them to return home after criticising their governments on a world stage. They told me\u00a0they felt let down by the organisations\u00a0who had invited them to participate but had nothing else in place for them. In trying to avoid being tokenised, don\u2019t tokenise others at the frontlines. Build long, authentic relationships that centre their needs. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle) I agree with Farah. From my experience in research, on the aspect of helping\u00a0creative work to be valued as a form of research, I think that engaging with researchers directly is really important to build their understanding of the value that this can bring \u2013 to open up thinking about new ways to engage with lived experiences and to\u00a0address the challenges that people face authentically. Often in the academic sphere, chances to collaborate or engage come in the form of a large new research programme, where creative work can be added-in tokenistically. This is often as a\u00a0bolt-on to an already planned project, without careful thought about its value, potential contribution and how to integrate this aspect within the core of the work to deliver that value.\u00a0This way opportunities to contribute can become sidelined from the \u2018main focus\u2019 of the work, and meaningful integration becomes very challenging. Nevertheless, developing more\u00a0direct relationships\u00a0with individual researchers or research teams\/groups that are\u00a0longer lasting\u00a0can allow opportunities to\u00a0collaborate and to demonstrate\u00a0the value of creativity in engaging with\u00a0key issues and lived experiences. By demonstrating value through meaningful collaborations, you can work with people whose values and motivations are known to you, and find interesting opportunities to further develop that research into a bigger project or programme of work, with creativity at its core. Q: I would like to know the speakers\u2019 thoughts on the issue of underlying drivers of vulnerability. The impacts of climate change and the loss & damages that may happen are especially the result of the conditions of the ground, on determinants of vulnerability created by capitalism, extractivism, colonialism and other forms of discrimination and exploitation. How do we claim the rightful demand of resources for L&D caused by climate change while at the same time addressing these underlying drivers? Through for example, reparation, abolition, repatriation, etc. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): For me the\u00a0underlying drivers of vulnerability\u00a0\u2013 the root causes \u2013 are the\u00a0same as the drivers of inequity and injustice. These centre on historical patterns of extraction and exploitation \u2013\u00a0\u00a0colonialism, capitalism, racism\u00a0\u2013 operating on a global scale, which have created legacies in the social, political and economic structures of regions and countries. They have determined the power dynamics, the material wealth, and dictated \u2013 through\u00a0structuring economies around resource extraction \u2013 the exposure of people in exploited countries to climate change. The\u00a0poorest and most marginalised groups\u00a0in society are\u00a0often rendered the most vulnerable, with the least access to wealth, power and resources, and with constrained choices in where to live and how to make a living.\u00a0These inequalities ultimately result in unequal life chances.\u00a0The Wisner at al., Pressure and Release model (from the book \u2018At Risk\u2019, 2004) depicts the progression of vulnerability from root causes to unsafe conditions and is a good resource. So, to address the loss and damage caused by climate change, we need to address\u00a0the root causes of loss and damage\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the failure of global policies in mitigation\u00a0that have not sufficiently reduced greenhouse gas emissions (or even set sufficient ambitions to meet the 1.5 degree target), and failure to support and finance adaptation adequately. This has resulted in loss and damages that are already being felt. These losses and damages are only going to increase as\u00a0mitigation and adaptation targets fail in their ambition and in their delivery\u00a0of promises for meaningful action. The impacts are borne by those rendered most vulnerable. To address loss and damage we need to\u00a0challenge existing powers and structures, and call for developed nations to accept responsibility for historical emissions and for emissions that they continue to generate disproportionately.\u00a0Developed nations must accept responsibility\u00a0for causing the climate crisis and act to deliver finances to people and countries most affected by loss and damage \u2013 not on a voluntary basis, but as an\u00a0essential reparation for the damage done. We need to call for this at the highest level, and to demand that developed nations accept responsibility and are held accountable. At a national and local level we can\u00a0scrutinise flows of finances\u00a0to those driving the crisis, divest from them, call out injustices, and support action groups and calls for action like the\u00a0polluter pays principle. Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): In a recent Common Wealth report, Harpreet Kaur Paul offers some thoughts on what this could look like. Check out\u00a0Towards Reparative Climate Justice: From Crises to Liberations.\u00a0Abolition, reparation, repatriation, etc, are all building blocks to climate justice. We need this radical overhaul of how we conceive of every part of our experience under Capitalism in order to free ourselves, and our planet, from its destruction. This is why culture is so important! Q: Could the panel discuss how the current economic systems are complicit in causing the crisis, and creative examples of economic alternatives which are beneficial to local communities? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): It\u2019s all about Capitalism!\u00a0And, importantly,\u00a0Capitalism couldn\u2019t have happened without Colonialism\u00a0and the theft of land, people and resources that fuelled industrialisation and continues to fuel consumption. It\u2019s difficult to point to alternative systems that are benefiting local communities because\u00a0everything is touched by Capitalism, but there are ways that people are responding. The Indian farmer protests over 2020-21 were a response to the economic system which allows corporations to patent nature and extract from vulnerable people for profit.\u00a0Strong, grassroots movements are truly incredible, and creativity is needed to keep those movements alive. In the wake of Covid, we saw the rise of mutual aid collectives.\u00a0Cooperation Jackson\u00a0in Mississippi, USA is a collective\u00a0designing a solidarity economy\u00a0based on mutual aid and worker owned cooperatives. The\u00a0Doughnut Economics Action Lab are working with Civic Square\u00a0in Birmingham, UK to trial a\u00a0\u2018neighbourhood doughnut system\u2019. They\u2019ve both partnered with peer-to-peer learning organisation\u00a0Enrol Yourself\u00a0for creative experimentation on this in practice.\u00a0Collaboration is the key to all of this work. 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This second episode explored\u00a0the concept of\u00a0Loss and Damage, and how we respond to climate change\u00a0impacts that can\u2019t be prevented or recovered\u00a0(\u2018Losses\u2019) as well as those that\u00a0may be able to be restored\u00a0(\u2018Damage\u2019). You can listen back to the full session\u00a0here. Q: How can creative practitioners better contribute to research on NELD (Non-Economic Loss and Damage)? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): Creative practitioners are able to act not just as storytellers, but also as archivists of Loss and Damage, especially the things that aren\u2019t economically quantifiable. We can do this by\u00a0documenting knowledges in languages and cultural practices that are being lost. For example,\u00a0N\u2019dau Festival of the Arts\u00a0in Zimbabwe gathers and preserves Indigenous N\u2019dau knowledge and language. We could consider our relationship to colonial languages or ways of working, and whether what we are trying to communicate is actually best told in other ways. We can also document NELD in a way which makes things easier to understand for the public and to\u00a0platform perspectives of the people being impacted by high level policy. Artist and researcher\u00a0Angela Chan created\u00a0Rain Paradox\u00a0as a response to, and critique of, a 2020 report called\u00a0The Great\u00a0British Rain Paradox\u00a0warning of the UK\u2019s impending water scarcity crisis. Part of the process of this work includes\u00a0\u2018living room conversations\u2019\u00a0exploring a variety of water topics including cultural practices, scarcity, borders and migration. INTERPRT\u00a0is an organisation that uses\u00a0digital, geospatial mapping technologies\u00a0to document environmental and ecological damage, which are shared in public exhibitions, but also\u00a0form evidence in legal cases against environmental destruction. Q: How can we avoid creative work being used tokenistically \/ used as green wash during COP negotiations and instead have it valued as a form of research + way of communicating\u00a0 lived experience? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): I think this is about\u00a0asking difficult questions when developing partnerships and communications tools. As was pointed out during the session,\u00a0fossil fuel interests were more represented than Indigenous peoples at COP26. Think about who you\u2019re working with, and who they are working with \u2013 your wider ecosystem. Is it worth it to get a foot in the door or a platform? This is where I tend to see\u00a0artwork used as greenwash or used tokenistically, when the\u00a0size of the platform\u00a0or having household names for partners\u00a0is the most important measure\u00a0of success, especially to some funders. \u2022 Instead, consider who doesn\u2019t have that kind of access and platform, and throw your weight behind them. \u2022 Challenge the power structures at play constantly. Art is such a valuable medium for greenwashing, make your work too difficult to be used. \u2022 Be prepared, have responses ready to call out when it is used by polluters in ways that aren\u2019t intended and don\u2019t align with your values. \u2022 Consider using venues and spaces that aren\u2019t part of the main stages, but that can actively draw in others through protest, workshops, art, healing spaces. Most importantly,\u00a0consider the safety of the people who you are drawing on\u00a0for that \u2018lived experience\u2019. I met a number of\u00a0young activists from the Global South\u00a0who were invited to participate at\u00a0COP26, and are\u00a0now seeking asylum\u00a0because it is unsafe for them to return home after criticising their governments on a world stage. They told me\u00a0they felt let down by the organisations\u00a0who had invited them to participate but had nothing else in place for them. In trying to avoid being tokenised, don\u2019t tokenise others at the frontlines. Build long, authentic relationships that centre their needs. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle) I agree with Farah. From my experience in research, on the aspect of helping\u00a0creative work to be valued as a form of research, I think that engaging with researchers directly is really important to build their understanding of the value that this can bring \u2013 to open up thinking about new ways to engage with lived experiences and to\u00a0address the challenges that people face authentically. Often in the academic sphere, chances to collaborate or engage come in the form of a large new research programme, where creative work can be added-in tokenistically. This is often as a\u00a0bolt-on to an already planned project, without careful thought about its value, potential contribution and how to integrate this aspect within the core of the work to deliver that value.\u00a0This way opportunities to contribute can become sidelined from the \u2018main focus\u2019 of the work, and meaningful integration becomes very challenging. Nevertheless, developing more\u00a0direct relationships\u00a0with individual researchers or research teams\/groups that are\u00a0longer lasting\u00a0can allow opportunities to\u00a0collaborate and to demonstrate\u00a0the value of creativity in engaging with\u00a0key issues and lived experiences. By demonstrating value through meaningful collaborations, you can work with people whose values and motivations are known to you, and find interesting opportunities to further develop that research into a bigger project or programme of work, with creativity at its core. Q: I would like to know the speakers\u2019 thoughts on the issue of underlying drivers of vulnerability. The impacts of climate change and the loss & damages that may happen are especially the result of the conditions of the ground, on determinants of vulnerability created by capitalism, extractivism, colonialism and other forms of discrimination and exploitation. How do we claim the rightful demand of resources for L&D caused by climate change while at the same time addressing these underlying drivers? Through for example, reparation, abolition, repatriation, etc. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): For me the\u00a0underlying drivers of vulnerability\u00a0\u2013 the root causes \u2013 are the\u00a0same as the drivers of inequity and injustice. These centre on historical patterns of extraction and exploitation \u2013\u00a0\u00a0colonialism, capitalism, racism\u00a0\u2013 operating on a global scale, which have created legacies in the social, political and economic structures of regions and countries. They have determined the power dynamics, the material wealth, and dictated \u2013 through\u00a0structuring economies around resource extraction \u2013 the exposure of people in exploited countries to climate change. The\u00a0poorest and most marginalised groups\u00a0in society are\u00a0often rendered the most vulnerable, with the least access to wealth, power and resources, and with constrained choices in where to live and how to make a living.\u00a0These inequalities ultimately result in unequal life chances.\u00a0The Wisner at al., Pressure and Release model (from the book \u2018At Risk\u2019, 2004) depicts the progression of vulnerability from root causes to unsafe conditions and is a good resource. So, to address the loss and damage caused by climate change, we need to address\u00a0the root causes of loss and damage\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the failure of global policies in mitigation\u00a0that have not sufficiently reduced greenhouse gas emissions (or even set sufficient ambitions to meet the 1.5 degree target), and failure to support and finance adaptation adequately. This has resulted in loss and damages that are already being felt. These losses and damages are only going to increase as\u00a0mitigation and adaptation targets fail in their ambition and in their delivery\u00a0of promises for meaningful action. The impacts are borne by those rendered most vulnerable. To address loss and damage we need to\u00a0challenge existing powers and structures, and call for developed nations to accept responsibility for historical emissions and for emissions that they continue to generate disproportionately.\u00a0Developed nations must accept responsibility\u00a0for causing the climate crisis and act to deliver finances to people and countries most affected by loss and damage \u2013 not on a voluntary basis, but as an\u00a0essential reparation for the damage done. We need to call for this at the highest level, and to demand that developed nations accept responsibility and are held accountable. At a national and local level we can\u00a0scrutinise flows of finances\u00a0to those driving the crisis, divest from them, call out injustices, and support action groups and calls for action like the\u00a0polluter pays principle. Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): In a recent Common Wealth report, Harpreet Kaur Paul offers some thoughts on what this could look like. Check out\u00a0Towards Reparative Climate Justice: From Crises to Liberations.\u00a0Abolition, reparation, repatriation, etc, are all building blocks to climate justice. We need this radical overhaul of how we conceive of every part of our experience under Capitalism in order to free ourselves, and our planet, from its destruction. This is why culture is so important! Q: Could the panel discuss how the current economic systems are complicit in causing the crisis, and creative examples of economic alternatives which are beneficial to local communities? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): It\u2019s all about Capitalism!\u00a0And, importantly,\u00a0Capitalism couldn\u2019t have happened without Colonialism\u00a0and the theft of land, people and resources that fuelled industrialisation and continues to fuel consumption. It\u2019s difficult to point to alternative systems that are benefiting local communities because\u00a0everything is touched by Capitalism, but there are ways that people are responding. The Indian farmer protests over 2020-21 were a response to the economic system which allows corporations to patent nature and extract from vulnerable people for profit.\u00a0Strong, grassroots movements are truly incredible, and creativity is needed to keep those movements alive. In the wake of Covid, we saw the rise of mutual aid collectives.\u00a0Cooperation Jackson\u00a0in Mississippi, USA is a collective\u00a0designing a solidarity economy\u00a0based on mutual aid and worker owned cooperatives. 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This second episode explored\u00a0the concept of\u00a0Loss and Damage, and how we respond to climate change\u00a0impacts that can\u2019t be prevented or recovered\u00a0(\u2018Losses\u2019) as well as those that\u00a0may be able to be restored\u00a0(\u2018Damage\u2019). You can listen back to the full session\u00a0here. Q: How can creative practitioners better contribute to research on NELD (Non-Economic Loss and Damage)? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): Creative practitioners are able to act not just as storytellers, but also as archivists of Loss and Damage, especially the things that aren\u2019t economically quantifiable. We can do this by\u00a0documenting knowledges in languages and cultural practices that are being lost. For example,\u00a0N\u2019dau Festival of the Arts\u00a0in Zimbabwe gathers and preserves Indigenous N\u2019dau knowledge and language. We could consider our relationship to colonial languages or ways of working, and whether what we are trying to communicate is actually best told in other ways. We can also document NELD in a way which makes things easier to understand for the public and to\u00a0platform perspectives of the people being impacted by high level policy. Artist and researcher\u00a0Angela Chan created\u00a0Rain Paradox\u00a0as a response to, and critique of, a 2020 report called\u00a0The Great\u00a0British Rain Paradox\u00a0warning of the UK\u2019s impending water scarcity crisis. Part of the process of this work includes\u00a0\u2018living room conversations\u2019\u00a0exploring a variety of water topics including cultural practices, scarcity, borders and migration. INTERPRT\u00a0is an organisation that uses\u00a0digital, geospatial mapping technologies\u00a0to document environmental and ecological damage, which are shared in public exhibitions, but also\u00a0form evidence in legal cases against environmental destruction. Q: How can we avoid creative work being used tokenistically \/ used as green wash during COP negotiations and instead have it valued as a form of research + way of communicating\u00a0 lived experience? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): I think this is about\u00a0asking difficult questions when developing partnerships and communications tools. As was pointed out during the session,\u00a0fossil fuel interests were more represented than Indigenous peoples at COP26. Think about who you\u2019re working with, and who they are working with \u2013 your wider ecosystem. Is it worth it to get a foot in the door or a platform? This is where I tend to see\u00a0artwork used as greenwash or used tokenistically, when the\u00a0size of the platform\u00a0or having household names for partners\u00a0is the most important measure\u00a0of success, especially to some funders. Instead, consider who doesn\u2019t have that kind of access and platform, and throw your weight behind them. Challenge the power structures at play constantly. Art is such a valuable medium for greenwashing, make your work too difficult to be used. Be prepared, have responses ready to call out when it is used by polluters in ways that aren\u2019t intended and don\u2019t align with your values. Consider using venues and spaces that aren\u2019t part of the main stages, but that can actively draw in others through protest, workshops, art, healing spaces. Most importantly,\u00a0consider the safety of the people who you are drawing on\u00a0for that \u2018lived experience\u2019. I met a number of\u00a0young activists from the Global South\u00a0who were invited to participate at\u00a0COP26, and are\u00a0now seeking asylum\u00a0because it is unsafe for them to return home after criticising their governments on a world stage. They told me\u00a0they felt let down by the organisations\u00a0who had invited them to participate but had nothing else in place for them. In trying to avoid being tokenised, don\u2019t tokenise others at the frontlines. Build long, authentic relationships that centre their needs. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle) I agree with Farah. From my experience in research, on the aspect of helping\u00a0creative work to be valued as a form of research, I think that engaging with researchers directly is really important to build their understanding of the value that this can bring \u2013 to open up thinking about new ways to engage with lived experiences and to\u00a0address the challenges that people face authentically. Often in the academic sphere, chances to collaborate or engage come in the form of a large new research programme, where creative work can be added-in tokenistically. This is often as a\u00a0bolt-on to an already planned project, without careful thought about its value, potential contribution and how to integrate this aspect within the core of the work to deliver that value.\u00a0This way opportunities to contribute can become sidelined from the \u2018main focus\u2019 of the work, and meaningful integration becomes very challenging. Nevertheless, developing more\u00a0direct relationships\u00a0with individual researchers or research teams\/groups that are\u00a0longer lasting\u00a0can allow opportunities to\u00a0collaborate and to demonstrate\u00a0the value of creativity in engaging with\u00a0key issues and lived experiences. By demonstrating value through meaningful collaborations, you can work with people whose values and motivations are known to you, and find interesting opportunities to further develop that research into a bigger project or programme of work, with creativity at its core. Q: I would like to know the speakers\u2019 thoughts on the issue of underlying drivers of vulnerability. The impacts of climate change and the loss & damages that may happen are especially the result of the conditions of the ground, on determinants of vulnerability created by capitalism, extractivism, colonialism and other forms of discrimination and exploitation. How do we claim the rightful demand of resources for L&D caused by climate change while at the same time addressing these underlying drivers? Through for example, reparation, abolition, repatriation, etc. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): For me the\u00a0underlying drivers of vulnerability\u00a0\u2013 the root causes \u2013 are the\u00a0same as the drivers of inequity and injustice. These centre on historical patterns of extraction and exploitation \u2013\u00a0\u00a0colonialism, capitalism, racism\u00a0\u2013 operating on a global scale, which have created legacies in the social, political and economic structures of regions and countries. They have determined the power dynamics, the material wealth, and dictated \u2013 through\u00a0structuring economies around resource extraction \u2013 the exposure of people in exploited countries to climate change. The\u00a0poorest and most marginalised groups\u00a0in society are\u00a0often rendered the most vulnerable, with the least access to wealth, power and resources, and with constrained choices in where to live and how to make a living.\u00a0These inequalities ultimately result in unequal life chances.\u00a0The Wisner at al., Pressure and Release model (from the book \u2018At Risk\u2019, 2004) depicts the progression of vulnerability from root causes to unsafe conditions and is a good resource. So, to address the loss and damage caused by climate change, we need to address\u00a0the root causes of loss and damage\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the failure of global policies in mitigation\u00a0that have not sufficiently reduced greenhouse gas emissions (or even set sufficient ambitions to meet the 1.5 degree target), and failure to support and finance adaptation adequately. This has resulted in loss and damages that are already being felt. These losses and damages are only going to increase as\u00a0mitigation and adaptation targets fail in their ambition and in their delivery\u00a0of promises for meaningful action. The impacts are borne by those rendered most vulnerable. To address loss and damage we need to\u00a0challenge existing powers and structures, and call for developed nations to accept responsibility for historical emissions and for emissions that they continue to generate disproportionately.\u00a0Developed nations must accept responsibility\u00a0for causing the climate crisis and act to deliver finances to people and countries most affected by loss and damage \u2013 not on a voluntary basis, but as an\u00a0essential reparation for the damage done. We need to call for this at the highest level, and to demand that developed nations accept responsibility and are held accountable. At a national and local level we can\u00a0scrutinise flows of finances\u00a0to those driving the crisis, divest from them, call out injustices, and support action groups and calls for action like the\u00a0polluter pays principle. Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): In a recent Common Wealth report, Harpreet Kaur Paul offers some thoughts on what this could look like. Check out\u00a0Towards Reparative Climate Justice: From Crises to Liberations.\u00a0Abolition, reparation, repatriation, etc, are all building blocks to climate justice. We need this radical overhaul of how we conceive of every part of our experience under Capitalism in order to free ourselves, and our planet, from its destruction. This is why culture is so important! Q: Could the panel discuss how the current economic systems are complicit in causing the crisis, and creative examples of economic alternatives which are beneficial to local communities? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): It\u2019s all about Capitalism!\u00a0And, importantly,\u00a0Capitalism couldn\u2019t have happened without Colonialism\u00a0and the theft of land, people and resources that fuelled industrialisation and continues to fuel consumption. It\u2019s difficult to point to alternative systems that are benefiting local communities because\u00a0everything is touched by Capitalism, but there are ways that people are responding. The Indian farmer protests over 2020-21 were a response to the economic system which allows corporations to patent nature and extract from vulnerable people for profit.\u00a0Strong, grassroots movements are truly incredible, and creativity is needed to keep those movements alive. In the wake of Covid, we saw the rise of mutual aid collectives.\u00a0Cooperation Jackson\u00a0in Mississippi, USA is a collective\u00a0designing a solidarity economy\u00a0based on mutual aid and worker owned cooperatives. The\u00a0Doughnut Economics Action Lab are working with Civic Square\u00a0in Birmingham, UK to trial a\u00a0\u2018neighbourhood doughnut system\u2019. They\u2019ve both partnered with peer-to-peer learning organisation\u00a0Enrol Yourself\u00a0for creative experimentation on this in practice.\u00a0Collaboration is the key to all of this work. I\u2019m always looking for more examples for case studies and resources, so please share your projects with me \u2013\u00a0farah@juliesbicycle.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/juliesbicycle.com\/resource\/loss-and-damage-webinar-qa\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Creative Climate Justice Webinar \u2013 Loss and Damage Q&A - Julie's Bicycle","og_description":"The Below Q&A was taken from the latest webinar in our\u00a0Creative Climate Justice series. This second episode explored\u00a0the concept of\u00a0Loss and Damage, and how we respond to climate change\u00a0impacts that can\u2019t be prevented or recovered\u00a0(\u2018Losses\u2019) as well as those that\u00a0may be able to be restored\u00a0(\u2018Damage\u2019). You can listen back to the full session\u00a0here. Q: How can creative practitioners better contribute to research on NELD (Non-Economic Loss and Damage)? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): Creative practitioners are able to act not just as storytellers, but also as archivists of Loss and Damage, especially the things that aren\u2019t economically quantifiable. We can do this by\u00a0documenting knowledges in languages and cultural practices that are being lost. For example,\u00a0N\u2019dau Festival of the Arts\u00a0in Zimbabwe gathers and preserves Indigenous N\u2019dau knowledge and language. We could consider our relationship to colonial languages or ways of working, and whether what we are trying to communicate is actually best told in other ways. We can also document NELD in a way which makes things easier to understand for the public and to\u00a0platform perspectives of the people being impacted by high level policy. Artist and researcher\u00a0Angela Chan created\u00a0Rain Paradox\u00a0as a response to, and critique of, a 2020 report called\u00a0The Great\u00a0British Rain Paradox\u00a0warning of the UK\u2019s impending water scarcity crisis. Part of the process of this work includes\u00a0\u2018living room conversations\u2019\u00a0exploring a variety of water topics including cultural practices, scarcity, borders and migration. INTERPRT\u00a0is an organisation that uses\u00a0digital, geospatial mapping technologies\u00a0to document environmental and ecological damage, which are shared in public exhibitions, but also\u00a0form evidence in legal cases against environmental destruction. Q: How can we avoid creative work being used tokenistically \/ used as green wash during COP negotiations and instead have it valued as a form of research + way of communicating\u00a0 lived experience? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): I think this is about\u00a0asking difficult questions when developing partnerships and communications tools. As was pointed out during the session,\u00a0fossil fuel interests were more represented than Indigenous peoples at COP26. Think about who you\u2019re working with, and who they are working with \u2013 your wider ecosystem. Is it worth it to get a foot in the door or a platform? This is where I tend to see\u00a0artwork used as greenwash or used tokenistically, when the\u00a0size of the platform\u00a0or having household names for partners\u00a0is the most important measure\u00a0of success, especially to some funders. Instead, consider who doesn\u2019t have that kind of access and platform, and throw your weight behind them. Challenge the power structures at play constantly. Art is such a valuable medium for greenwashing, make your work too difficult to be used. Be prepared, have responses ready to call out when it is used by polluters in ways that aren\u2019t intended and don\u2019t align with your values. Consider using venues and spaces that aren\u2019t part of the main stages, but that can actively draw in others through protest, workshops, art, healing spaces. Most importantly,\u00a0consider the safety of the people who you are drawing on\u00a0for that \u2018lived experience\u2019. I met a number of\u00a0young activists from the Global South\u00a0who were invited to participate at\u00a0COP26, and are\u00a0now seeking asylum\u00a0because it is unsafe for them to return home after criticising their governments on a world stage. They told me\u00a0they felt let down by the organisations\u00a0who had invited them to participate but had nothing else in place for them. In trying to avoid being tokenised, don\u2019t tokenise others at the frontlines. Build long, authentic relationships that centre their needs. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle) I agree with Farah. From my experience in research, on the aspect of helping\u00a0creative work to be valued as a form of research, I think that engaging with researchers directly is really important to build their understanding of the value that this can bring \u2013 to open up thinking about new ways to engage with lived experiences and to\u00a0address the challenges that people face authentically. Often in the academic sphere, chances to collaborate or engage come in the form of a large new research programme, where creative work can be added-in tokenistically. This is often as a\u00a0bolt-on to an already planned project, without careful thought about its value, potential contribution and how to integrate this aspect within the core of the work to deliver that value.\u00a0This way opportunities to contribute can become sidelined from the \u2018main focus\u2019 of the work, and meaningful integration becomes very challenging. Nevertheless, developing more\u00a0direct relationships\u00a0with individual researchers or research teams\/groups that are\u00a0longer lasting\u00a0can allow opportunities to\u00a0collaborate and to demonstrate\u00a0the value of creativity in engaging with\u00a0key issues and lived experiences. By demonstrating value through meaningful collaborations, you can work with people whose values and motivations are known to you, and find interesting opportunities to further develop that research into a bigger project or programme of work, with creativity at its core. Q: I would like to know the speakers\u2019 thoughts on the issue of underlying drivers of vulnerability. The impacts of climate change and the loss & damages that may happen are especially the result of the conditions of the ground, on determinants of vulnerability created by capitalism, extractivism, colonialism and other forms of discrimination and exploitation. How do we claim the rightful demand of resources for L&D caused by climate change while at the same time addressing these underlying drivers? Through for example, reparation, abolition, repatriation, etc. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): For me the\u00a0underlying drivers of vulnerability\u00a0\u2013 the root causes \u2013 are the\u00a0same as the drivers of inequity and injustice. These centre on historical patterns of extraction and exploitation \u2013\u00a0\u00a0colonialism, capitalism, racism\u00a0\u2013 operating on a global scale, which have created legacies in the social, political and economic structures of regions and countries. They have determined the power dynamics, the material wealth, and dictated \u2013 through\u00a0structuring economies around resource extraction \u2013 the exposure of people in exploited countries to climate change. The\u00a0poorest and most marginalised groups\u00a0in society are\u00a0often rendered the most vulnerable, with the least access to wealth, power and resources, and with constrained choices in where to live and how to make a living.\u00a0These inequalities ultimately result in unequal life chances.\u00a0The Wisner at al., Pressure and Release model (from the book \u2018At Risk\u2019, 2004) depicts the progression of vulnerability from root causes to unsafe conditions and is a good resource. So, to address the loss and damage caused by climate change, we need to address\u00a0the root causes of loss and damage\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the failure of global policies in mitigation\u00a0that have not sufficiently reduced greenhouse gas emissions (or even set sufficient ambitions to meet the 1.5 degree target), and failure to support and finance adaptation adequately. This has resulted in loss and damages that are already being felt. These losses and damages are only going to increase as\u00a0mitigation and adaptation targets fail in their ambition and in their delivery\u00a0of promises for meaningful action. The impacts are borne by those rendered most vulnerable. To address loss and damage we need to\u00a0challenge existing powers and structures, and call for developed nations to accept responsibility for historical emissions and for emissions that they continue to generate disproportionately.\u00a0Developed nations must accept responsibility\u00a0for causing the climate crisis and act to deliver finances to people and countries most affected by loss and damage \u2013 not on a voluntary basis, but as an\u00a0essential reparation for the damage done. We need to call for this at the highest level, and to demand that developed nations accept responsibility and are held accountable. At a national and local level we can\u00a0scrutinise flows of finances\u00a0to those driving the crisis, divest from them, call out injustices, and support action groups and calls for action like the\u00a0polluter pays principle. Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): In a recent Common Wealth report, Harpreet Kaur Paul offers some thoughts on what this could look like. Check out\u00a0Towards Reparative Climate Justice: From Crises to Liberations.\u00a0Abolition, reparation, repatriation, etc, are all building blocks to climate justice. We need this radical overhaul of how we conceive of every part of our experience under Capitalism in order to free ourselves, and our planet, from its destruction. This is why culture is so important! Q: Could the panel discuss how the current economic systems are complicit in causing the crisis, and creative examples of economic alternatives which are beneficial to local communities? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): It\u2019s all about Capitalism!\u00a0And, importantly,\u00a0Capitalism couldn\u2019t have happened without Colonialism\u00a0and the theft of land, people and resources that fuelled industrialisation and continues to fuel consumption. It\u2019s difficult to point to alternative systems that are benefiting local communities because\u00a0everything is touched by Capitalism, but there are ways that people are responding. The Indian farmer protests over 2020-21 were a response to the economic system which allows corporations to patent nature and extract from vulnerable people for profit.\u00a0Strong, grassroots movements are truly incredible, and creativity is needed to keep those movements alive. In the wake of Covid, we saw the rise of mutual aid collectives.\u00a0Cooperation Jackson\u00a0in Mississippi, USA is a collective\u00a0designing a solidarity economy\u00a0based on mutual aid and worker owned cooperatives. The\u00a0Doughnut Economics Action Lab are working with Civic Square\u00a0in Birmingham, UK to trial a\u00a0\u2018neighbourhood doughnut system\u2019. They\u2019ve both partnered with peer-to-peer learning organisation\u00a0Enrol Yourself\u00a0for creative experimentation on this in practice.\u00a0Collaboration is the key to all of this work. 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This second episode explored\u00a0the concept of\u00a0Loss and Damage, and how we respond to climate change\u00a0impacts that can\u2019t be prevented or recovered\u00a0(\u2018Losses\u2019) as well as those that\u00a0may be able to be restored\u00a0(\u2018Damage\u2019). You can listen back to the full session\u00a0here. Q: How can creative practitioners better contribute to research on NELD (Non-Economic Loss and Damage)? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): Creative practitioners are able to act not just as storytellers, but also as archivists of Loss and Damage, especially the things that aren\u2019t economically quantifiable. We can do this by\u00a0documenting knowledges in languages and cultural practices that are being lost. For example,\u00a0N\u2019dau Festival of the Arts\u00a0in Zimbabwe gathers and preserves Indigenous N\u2019dau knowledge and language. We could consider our relationship to colonial languages or ways of working, and whether what we are trying to communicate is actually best told in other ways. We can also document NELD in a way which makes things easier to understand for the public and to\u00a0platform perspectives of the people being impacted by high level policy. Artist and researcher\u00a0Angela Chan created\u00a0Rain Paradox\u00a0as a response to, and critique of, a 2020 report called\u00a0The Great\u00a0British Rain Paradox\u00a0warning of the UK\u2019s impending water scarcity crisis. Part of the process of this work includes\u00a0\u2018living room conversations\u2019\u00a0exploring a variety of water topics including cultural practices, scarcity, borders and migration. INTERPRT\u00a0is an organisation that uses\u00a0digital, geospatial mapping technologies\u00a0to document environmental and ecological damage, which are shared in public exhibitions, but also\u00a0form evidence in legal cases against environmental destruction. Q: How can we avoid creative work being used tokenistically \/ used as green wash during COP negotiations and instead have it valued as a form of research + way of communicating\u00a0 lived experience? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): I think this is about\u00a0asking difficult questions when developing partnerships and communications tools. As was pointed out during the session,\u00a0fossil fuel interests were more represented than Indigenous peoples at COP26. Think about who you\u2019re working with, and who they are working with \u2013 your wider ecosystem. Is it worth it to get a foot in the door or a platform? This is where I tend to see\u00a0artwork used as greenwash or used tokenistically, when the\u00a0size of the platform\u00a0or having household names for partners\u00a0is the most important measure\u00a0of success, especially to some funders. \u2022 Instead, consider who doesn\u2019t have that kind of access and platform, and throw your weight behind them. \u2022 Challenge the power structures at play constantly. Art is such a valuable medium for greenwashing, make your work too difficult to be used. \u2022 Be prepared, have responses ready to call out when it is used by polluters in ways that aren\u2019t intended and don\u2019t align with your values. \u2022 Consider using venues and spaces that aren\u2019t part of the main stages, but that can actively draw in others through protest, workshops, art, healing spaces. Most importantly,\u00a0consider the safety of the people who you are drawing on\u00a0for that \u2018lived experience\u2019. I met a number of\u00a0young activists from the Global South\u00a0who were invited to participate at\u00a0COP26, and are\u00a0now seeking asylum\u00a0because it is unsafe for them to return home after criticising their governments on a world stage. They told me\u00a0they felt let down by the organisations\u00a0who had invited them to participate but had nothing else in place for them. In trying to avoid being tokenised, don\u2019t tokenise others at the frontlines. Build long, authentic relationships that centre their needs. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle) I agree with Farah. From my experience in research, on the aspect of helping\u00a0creative work to be valued as a form of research, I think that engaging with researchers directly is really important to build their understanding of the value that this can bring \u2013 to open up thinking about new ways to engage with lived experiences and to\u00a0address the challenges that people face authentically. Often in the academic sphere, chances to collaborate or engage come in the form of a large new research programme, where creative work can be added-in tokenistically. This is often as a\u00a0bolt-on to an already planned project, without careful thought about its value, potential contribution and how to integrate this aspect within the core of the work to deliver that value.\u00a0This way opportunities to contribute can become sidelined from the \u2018main focus\u2019 of the work, and meaningful integration becomes very challenging. Nevertheless, developing more\u00a0direct relationships\u00a0with individual researchers or research teams\/groups that are\u00a0longer lasting\u00a0can allow opportunities to\u00a0collaborate and to demonstrate\u00a0the value of creativity in engaging with\u00a0key issues and lived experiences. By demonstrating value through meaningful collaborations, you can work with people whose values and motivations are known to you, and find interesting opportunities to further develop that research into a bigger project or programme of work, with creativity at its core. Q: I would like to know the speakers\u2019 thoughts on the issue of underlying drivers of vulnerability. The impacts of climate change and the loss & damages that may happen are especially the result of the conditions of the ground, on determinants of vulnerability created by capitalism, extractivism, colonialism and other forms of discrimination and exploitation. How do we claim the rightful demand of resources for L&D caused by climate change while at the same time addressing these underlying drivers? Through for example, reparation, abolition, repatriation, etc. Response from Vicky (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): For me the\u00a0underlying drivers of vulnerability\u00a0\u2013 the root causes \u2013 are the\u00a0same as the drivers of inequity and injustice. These centre on historical patterns of extraction and exploitation \u2013\u00a0\u00a0colonialism, capitalism, racism\u00a0\u2013 operating on a global scale, which have created legacies in the social, political and economic structures of regions and countries. They have determined the power dynamics, the material wealth, and dictated \u2013 through\u00a0structuring economies around resource extraction \u2013 the exposure of people in exploited countries to climate change. The\u00a0poorest and most marginalised groups\u00a0in society are\u00a0often rendered the most vulnerable, with the least access to wealth, power and resources, and with constrained choices in where to live and how to make a living.\u00a0These inequalities ultimately result in unequal life chances.\u00a0The Wisner at al., Pressure and Release model (from the book \u2018At Risk\u2019, 2004) depicts the progression of vulnerability from root causes to unsafe conditions and is a good resource. So, to address the loss and damage caused by climate change, we need to address\u00a0the root causes of loss and damage\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the failure of global policies in mitigation\u00a0that have not sufficiently reduced greenhouse gas emissions (or even set sufficient ambitions to meet the 1.5 degree target), and failure to support and finance adaptation adequately. This has resulted in loss and damages that are already being felt. These losses and damages are only going to increase as\u00a0mitigation and adaptation targets fail in their ambition and in their delivery\u00a0of promises for meaningful action. The impacts are borne by those rendered most vulnerable. To address loss and damage we need to\u00a0challenge existing powers and structures, and call for developed nations to accept responsibility for historical emissions and for emissions that they continue to generate disproportionately.\u00a0Developed nations must accept responsibility\u00a0for causing the climate crisis and act to deliver finances to people and countries most affected by loss and damage \u2013 not on a voluntary basis, but as an\u00a0essential reparation for the damage done. We need to call for this at the highest level, and to demand that developed nations accept responsibility and are held accountable. At a national and local level we can\u00a0scrutinise flows of finances\u00a0to those driving the crisis, divest from them, call out injustices, and support action groups and calls for action like the\u00a0polluter pays principle. Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): In a recent Common Wealth report, Harpreet Kaur Paul offers some thoughts on what this could look like. Check out\u00a0Towards Reparative Climate Justice: From Crises to Liberations.\u00a0Abolition, reparation, repatriation, etc, are all building blocks to climate justice. We need this radical overhaul of how we conceive of every part of our experience under Capitalism in order to free ourselves, and our planet, from its destruction. This is why culture is so important! Q: Could the panel discuss how the current economic systems are complicit in causing the crisis, and creative examples of economic alternatives which are beneficial to local communities? Response from Farah (Julie\u2019s Bicycle): It\u2019s all about Capitalism!\u00a0And, importantly,\u00a0Capitalism couldn\u2019t have happened without Colonialism\u00a0and the theft of land, people and resources that fuelled industrialisation and continues to fuel consumption. It\u2019s difficult to point to alternative systems that are benefiting local communities because\u00a0everything is touched by Capitalism, but there are ways that people are responding. The Indian farmer protests over 2020-21 were a response to the economic system which allows corporations to patent nature and extract from vulnerable people for profit.\u00a0Strong, grassroots movements are truly incredible, and creativity is needed to keep those movements alive. In the wake of Covid, we saw the rise of mutual aid collectives.\u00a0Cooperation Jackson\u00a0in Mississippi, USA is a collective\u00a0designing a solidarity economy\u00a0based on mutual aid and worker owned cooperatives. The\u00a0Doughnut Economics Action Lab are working with Civic Square\u00a0in Birmingham, UK to trial a\u00a0\u2018neighbourhood doughnut system\u2019. They\u2019ve both partnered with peer-to-peer learning organisation\u00a0Enrol Yourself\u00a0for creative experimentation on this in practice.\u00a0Collaboration is the key to all of this work. 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