Webinar: Climate Change and Political Ideologies

In this Politics webinar for school and college students and teachers, Professor Milja Kurki from the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University asks "How do we Tackle Climate Change and What do Political Ideologies Have to do With It?’

Climate change and related ecological challenges present some fundamental challenges to politics on the planet: local, national and global. But how can climate change be tackled when states and communities often focus on securing their own survival and prosperity, at the expense of others’? And what is the relevance of ‘political ideologies’ in addressing the cutting edge challenges of climate change?

In this session, Milja shows how both classical and more recently developed political ideologies are highly relevant to today’s climate debates and demonstrates how they are tied up with bringing about change – if very different kinds of change!

Approximately 10:30mins into the webinar students are asked to watch a short video (4 minutes) on climate change. Unfortunately, this is not recorded within the webinar but can be watched on another YouTube video (   • Climate Change | Short Film  . The webinar discussions and presentation then resume at 14:20mins.

This is part of a series of climate change webinars from Aberystwyth University highlighting our various climate change degree schemes, including our own BA International Politics and Climate Change.