Feminist Perspectives on Climate Research Workshop (FemClim 2026)

Research on climate change is situated within a context of historical and persisting injustices: populations who have contributed the least to global warming are currently most vulnerable to its impacts (e.g. Nakashima, 2018), regions of the world that are most vulnerable are often less well researched than regions in the Global North (e.g. James et al. 2018), and the knowledge and expertise of marginalised groups – including women, Indigenous people, young, (dis)abled, people of colour – is often not taken into account, leading to the intersection of climate, racial and gender injustice (Whyte, 2014; Whyte, 2016; Tuana and Cuomo, 2014). These injustices have to be reckoned with for climate research to be both reliable and fair. Indeed, the scientific community is currently facing major challenges that are not strictly epistemic: modelling and projecting climate impacts at local scales, filling in the knowledge gaps, addressing the human dimensions of climate change, and meeting the diversity of needs of the populations on Earth are all both epistemic and ethical issues. Yet, how to acknowledge and address injustices within knowledge production, how to design models and studies in order to fairly address people’s needs, how to organise the climate research community and how to effectively communicate about climate information and its uncertainty, are matters of ongoing but often behind-the-scenes debates.

Registration deadline: 30th of April 2026

Contact: FemClim.oeschger@unibe.ch