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Climate Justice: How Global Warming Affects Developing Nations

International Expert Visits UC

Written By Keshia Clukey, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (04/21/2008) - While global warming has become an increasingly “hot” topic regarding its impact on the earth, new studies focus on how it affects people. 

Father Anthony Dias, Ph.D., will address the human rights impacts of global warming at a presentation Thursday evening at Utica College. His presentation, titled Global Warming, Climate Justice and Human Rights: Perspectives from Developing Nations, will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Willard Conference Room in DePerno Hall. The event is free and open to the public. 

Dias will discuss the role of developing nations in the buildup of green house and other gas emissions that have warmed the globe and triggered dramatic climate changes. According to Dias, many leaders of developing nations feel that reducing their emissions would be unfair and would negatively affect their economies. Moreover, the ability of these nations to lift the underprivileged from poverty and illiteracy would be limited. In highly contested debates around the world, these developing nations are seeking climate justice, requesting that the rights of their people be considered when establishing environmental protection initiatives. 

Dias earned a master’s degree in law from Mumbai University in Mumbai, India, and a doctorate from the National Law School of India, Bangalore. He is currently directing socio-legal research at Xavier Institute of Social Research and Action, Mumbai City, including action research on tribal and urban issues. Dias also teaches courses on human rights, corporate social responsibility and environmental management. He has published several books, papers, and projects including the books Eminent Domain, Displacement and Impoverishment and Development-induced Displacement and its Impacts. 

For information contact Theodore Orlin, Harold T. Clark Professor of Human Rights Scholarship and Advocacy, at 792-3267 or by email torlin@utica.edu.

About Utica College – Utica College is a comprehensive private college founded by Syracuse University in 1946, offering baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls approximately 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students in 34 undergraduate majors, 27 minors, 14 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.

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