Chukwumerije Okereke and Amanda Power on sustainability and justice

The 2025 Green Templeton Lecture Series was launched on Wednesday 12 February with a lively conversation between Chukwumerije Okereke (Professor in Global Governance and Public Policy, University of Bristol) and Amanda Power (Sullivan Clarendon Associate Professor in History, University of Oxford).

This year’s lectures, convened by Research Fellows James Robson and Mark Hirons, are about Sustainability Education, and Professor Okereke opened the series by explaining why climate change and other environmental issues are not just technical problems, but questions of ethics, global justice – including decolonization – and emotion. This means, Dr Power agreed in her response, that sustainability education is not just about what content to teach, but also how to teach and the purpose of education as transformational and holistic rather than just preparation for employment

Questions from the audience covered many subjects, including the challenges of current global politics, including a popularist backlash against policies for sustainability – the subject of the next lecture in the series, with Chris Skidmore OBE and Debbie Hopkins.

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