Symposium: From the Niger Delta, Nigeria to the World – Charting a Global Just Transition Agenda

In light of recent calls by the U.S. administration to expand oil and gas infrastructure in the U.S. and Canada, researchers and advocates are confronted with deepening global obstacles to a just energy transition.

Informed by the Final Report of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission, 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’s enduring environmental crisis, and extractive violence in resource-rich areas in North America and elsewhere.