Global Development Institute 265d ago

Dr. Amiera Sawas is Head of Research and Policy at the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative. She's a feminist researcher and advocate who has been working at the intersections of climate change, gender justice, public participation and the social contract. Amiera has a PhD on water, climate and human rights in Pakistan and is a contributing author to the IPCC sixth assessment report on gender and climate security. As a person of both Syrian and Irish heritage, with close links to Pakistan, she has lived life with an acute awareness of the impacts of colonial histories and believes passionately in the need to decolonise. In her talk, she shares how the proposed Fossil Fuel Treaty is a platform for solidarity policies towards a more fair macroeconomic and climate system - encouraging a planned transition from Fossil Fuels that supports the Paris Agreement Goals while ensuring equity and global justice, instead of leaving states in the Global South at the mercy of neocolonial macroeconomic injustices. Amiera shares how international law can help, what efforts the coalition is making to try to address global injustices in the process, including the role of research, and what it's like to work in this field.