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Disaster Trade

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ESRC-FCDO research at the nexus of climate, disasters and British trade
The hidden cost of bricks, garments and tea
RHUL/Exeter/OU/Dhaka

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Laurie Parsons (@lauriefdparsons) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shocking news that Gerry Flynn - one of Cambodia's most prominent environmental journalists - has been indefinitely banned from the country Others have also been targeted Those who expose illegal logging are being silenced with growing force news.mongabay.com/2025/02/cambodโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ“ท

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Very excited to announce that Carbon Colonialism will be released in paperback this May! Hoping to kick start further conversations around the environmental politics of our global factory Watch this space for more developments...

Very excited to announce that Carbon Colonialism will be released in paperback this May!

Hoping to kick start further conversations around the environmental politics of our global factory

Watch this space for more developments...
Oppressive Heat (@oppressive_heat) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oppressive Heat is one year old! And our first paper has just been published Check it out here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10โ€ฆ But first, an explainer on what heat inequality means๐Ÿงต

Sabina Lawreniuk (@sabinalawreniuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let workers take you behind the scene's of #Jordan's clothing and footwear industry๐Ÿ‘•๐Ÿ‘€ Led by Katharina Grรผneisl & our Invisible Women, Invisible Workers team ๐Ÿ“…Sat May 3rd โฐ4pm UK/6pm Amman ๐Ÿ“Online or in person MMAG Foundation Amman ๐Ÿ”—More info and link to register: invisibleworkers.org.uk/events

Let workers take you behind the scene's of #Jordan's clothing and footwear industry๐Ÿ‘•๐Ÿ‘€

 Led by <a href="/katharinagrneis/">Katharina Grรผneisl</a> &amp; our <a href="/invisible_wrkrs/">Invisible Women, Invisible Workers</a> team 

๐Ÿ“…Sat May 3rd
โฐ4pm UK/6pm Amman
๐Ÿ“Online or in person <a href="/MMAGFoundation/">MMAG Foundation</a> Amman 
๐Ÿ”—More info and link to register: invisibleworkers.org.uk/events
Sabina Lawreniuk (@sabinalawreniuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Poor workers in countries like #Cambodia will be among the biggestย losers" ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿชก๐Ÿ‘ฉ My thoughts on #TrumpTariffs in The Conversation ๐Ÿ‘‡ Drawing on lessons learned from the #EU's 2020 tariff changes in the garment industry ๐Ÿ‘• theconversation.com/trumps-tariffsโ€ฆ

Laurie Parsons (@lauriefdparsons) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very excited to be speaking at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance (SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance) this evening to launch the paperback of Carbon Colonialism (out 27th of May)! More events impending - watch this space! soas.ac.uk/about/event/caโ€ฆ

Manchester University Press (@manchesterup) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hosted by City Books in Hove, author & researcher Laurie Parsons will be in conversation with Phil Hubbard to mark the paperback publication of his award-winning book, Carbon colonialism. 3rd June from 7pm Tickets on sale now: city-books.co.uk/blogs/news/lauโ€ฆ #booklaunch

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"There Is No More Effective Policy for Reducing Heat Risks than a Fair Workplace and Fair Pay" I spoke to Subir Ghosh of TexFash on what our Oppressive Heat project shows about how we can confront the climate crisis Check it out here: texfash.com/special/there-โ€ฆ

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For any Korean speakers, check out this new doc by KBS WORLD TV - featuring research by myself, Sabina Lawreniuk and others From waste to work, it shows greater accountability is needed in global production This is the reality behind the label youtube.com/watch?v=FcLwJLโ€ฆ

Climate Change Research Group (@climategeog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We have an ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž event coming up at 1pm on the 9th of July ๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฐ: ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ Superstar speakers will discuss our best hope for real change More here ๐Ÿ‘‡ rgs.org/events/upcominโ€ฆ

We have an ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž event coming up at 1pm on the 9th of July

๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฐ: ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ

Superstar speakers will discuss our best hope for real change 

More here ๐Ÿ‘‡

rgs.org/events/upcominโ€ฆ
Laurie Parsons (@lauriefdparsons) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A bit late in tweeting - but good to be quoted here Brands need to get serious about just transition - at present it barely exists in planning cambodianess.com/article/cambodโ€ฆ

A bit late in tweeting - but good to be quoted here

Brands need to get serious about just transition - at present it barely exists in planning 

cambodianess.com/article/cambodโ€ฆ
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An honour to be at @ILO's Regulating Decent Work Conference with Pratik Mishra and Ly Vouch Long Using data from the Oppressive Heat project - we show how worker voice is the most effective tool in managing heat stress under climate change More here: oppressive-heat.org/publications

An honour to be at @ILO's Regulating Decent Work Conference with Pratik Mishra and Ly Vouch Long 

Using data from the <a href="/oppressive_heat/">Oppressive Heat</a> project - we show how worker voice is the most effective tool in managing heat stress under climate change

More here: 

oppressive-heat.org/publications
Climate Change Research Group (@climategeog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Don't miss this event coming up at 1pm on the 9th of July ๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฐ: ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ We have now added an expanded lineup of stellar speakers! More here ๐Ÿ‘‡ rgs.org/events/upcominโ€ฆ

Don't miss this event coming up at 1pm on the 9th of July  

๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฐ: ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ  

We have now added an expanded lineup of stellar speakers! 

More here ๐Ÿ‘‡ 

rgs.org/events/upcominโ€ฆ
Laurie Parsons (@lauriefdparsons) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Climate Change and the Law: Obstacles and Opportunities Now with an expanded lineup and not to be missed! If you attend one free discussion this month, make sure it's this one. You won't be disappointed!

Laurie Parsons (@lauriefdparsons) 's Twitter Profile Photo

VERY excited to share our new Oppressive Heat paper: Towards a decolonial heat-health nexus We show how heat stress science and policy has been - and is - shaped by colonial and post-colonial interests, from the 19th century to now More here๐Ÿ‘‡: sciencedirect.com/science/articlโ€ฆ

VERY excited to share our new <a href="/oppressive_heat/">Oppressive Heat</a> paper:

Towards a decolonial heat-health nexus

We show how heat stress science and policy has been - and is - shaped by colonial and post-colonial interests, from the 19th century to now

More here๐Ÿ‘‡:

sciencedirect.com/science/articlโ€ฆ
Climate Change Research Group (@climategeog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

FINAL REMINDER about our ๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฐ: ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ panel discussion TOMORROW at 1pm! It's free to attend and question our stellar line up - don't miss out! More here ๐Ÿ‘‡ rgs.org/events/upcominโ€ฆ

FINAL REMINDER about our ๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฐ: ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ panel discussion TOMORROW at 1pm! 

It's free to attend and question our stellar line up - don't miss out!

More here ๐Ÿ‘‡ 

rgs.org/events/upcominโ€ฆ