2025 Centre of African Studies Annual Conference: Climate Dynamics and the Politics of a Post-Carbon Africa
ECCI
Presented by the Centre of African Studies
The ongoing calls for urgent action to mitigate the growing scourge of climate change by transitioning away from fossil fuels are often met with troubling uncertainties about the fate of costly commercial ventures in the petroleum industry, risks to sustainable livelihood bundles, precarious patterns of human mobilities and displacement, and potential violent flashpoints over distributional contentions in multi-sited domains of (post)carbon development.
The conference brings together scholars and active researchers who are interested in the socio-technical and political entanglements shaping sustainable energy transitions in Africa. It aims to specifically draw from empirically grounded and theoretical introspections about an African perspective on the global energy transition drive and climate change.
The event is co-hosted with Edinburgh Earth Initiative, the Centre for Business, Climate Change, and Sustainability (B-CCaS), and the Edinburgh Global Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program.