Time: 10:00 am–11:30 am, September 28

Location: Room 301, Lide Building, Zhongguancun Campus

Introduction of the lecture:
Climate change is one of the most complex and pressing global issues. Its impacts are highly uneven across regions. Populations worldwide experience and respond to climate crisis and related vulnerabilities in different ways. As a result, climate justice serves not only as a moral issue, but also as a framework for guiding policy development and social action. The purpose is to ensure equitable treatment of those most affected by climate change.

Over recent decades, the conceptual and practical landscape of climate justice has undergone rapid changes. Scholars call for a fundamental transformation of existing climate justice frameworks from the traditional and universal approach to a more pluralistic understanding, which integrates knowledge and perspectives from Indigenous and local communities. Against this background, this lecture will introduce Confucianism as a virtue-oriented humanism that can provide insightful perspectives on addressing ethical challenges arising from global environmental issues.

Speaker: Teng Fei

Introduction of the speaker:
Teng Fei is currently a lecturer in the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China. Her research interests include environmental philosophy, the ethics of science and technology. She obtained her doctoral degree from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She was also a visiting scholar of the University of Louvain (2013).