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Given the spectre of Trump\u2019s drill-baby-drill, and accompanying pressure to expand oil and gas infrastructure in the United States and Canada, researchers and advocates are confronted with deepening global obstacles to a just energy transition.  Informed by the Final Report<\/a> of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission<\/a>, this symposium brings together a diverse group of scholars, community leaders and activists, legal experts, and international advocates - to examine the relationship between the prospects for a global just transition, the Nigerian Niger Delta\u2019s enduring environmental crisis, and extractive violence in resource-rich areas in North America and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Address:<\/strong>\u00a0Nnimmo Bassey<\/strong>,\u00a0 YorkU Honorary Doctorate and renowned global environmental justice activist, author, architect, director of the ecological think tank Health of Mother Earth Foundation (Nigeria), recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and York Honorary Doctor of Laws, on April 10 at 3pm, 519 Kaneff Tower, ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This symposium is organized by the International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution in the Niger Delta <\/em><\/strong>with support and co-sponsorship from the following units at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ: Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change; the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security; the Harriett Tubman Institute, York International, and the Vice-President for Research & Innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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