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UNDP Gathers Climate Experts and Activists to Look Into Collective Action | Interview with Dana Fisher, American University | How Swiss Civil Society Brings Change About

Climate Action as a Human Right: Senior Women for Climate Protection in Switzerland Won a Spectacular Court Case at the European Court of Human Rights

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In early December, UNDP Geneva delivered an event focusing on how citizens ​organise for climate action and how stronger financial commitments by governments c​an be submitted next year, in Brazil​, during COP30, the UN Climate Change Conference, that will take place in the Amazon Region, in Belem. ​

​I​ interviewed ​Dana R. Fisher, Ph.D., who is the Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity, and a Professor, at the School of International Service, American University, she is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Chair, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Dr. Fisher is a renowned sociologist in the field​ of community organising to bring about systemic change.

We spoke about her latest book, youth voices ​assemblies, and climate justice litigation.

Just like the youth movement, J​ane Fonda Fire Drill Fridays, and other senior women​ activism group like Klima Seniorinnen, ​an organisation of senior social justice leaders in Switzerland, they say that their fundamental rights are being trampled upon due to inaction by government, and are asking for change.

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