Multispecies Climate Justice

Sylvia Cifuentes is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Social Equity and Justice at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who investigates the connections among Indigenous politics and global environmental challenges, including climate change, ‘Smart Earth’ technologies and energy—with a geographical focus on Amazonia. She draws from critical geography, science and technology studies, and decolonial and Indigenous studies. Her research has been published in Science, Technology and Human Values, the Journal of Latin American Geography, Digital Geography and Society, Perspectives in Global Development and Technology, among other venues. Both as part of her research and prior to academia, she has collaborated with several Indigenous and environmental organizations.Shaina Sadai (she/her) is a climate scientist and critical physical geographer. Her research areas include sea level rise, climate modeling, climate justice, ice sheet dynamics, climate attribution, and corporate accountability for industrial polluters. Her work has been published in Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nature Climate Change, and elsewhere. Part of her dissertation work, published in Earth’s Future, explored climate justice and sea level rise by exploring the UNFCCC Paris Agreement’s long term temperature goal through the lens of sea level rise impacts and the interface of science, policy, and political power. She strives to apply climate science in service of local and global communities by using research to inform policy, community organizing, and climate litigation. She has served as a scientific advisor on climate litigation cases, including the Advisory Opinion cases at the International Court of Justice and International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. She holds a PhD in Geosciences, MS in Applied Mathematics, BS in Astrophysics, and BS in Physics.Stephanie Rutherford is an Associate Professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. Her research inhabits the intersections among political ecology, environmental justice, animal studies, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada (MQUP 2022) and Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power (UMinn 2011). She was also a co-editor of Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research and Historical Animal Geographies. Her new research is a community-based partnership that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough, Ontario.

• Multispecies Climate Justice in Carceral Environments.- Adaptive Animals Climate Change’s Beasts of Burden in Andean Peru.- Reshaping Climate Planning: Indigenous Women's Territorial Knowledges and Adaptation in Amazonia.- Sea level rise and climate justice inclusive multispecies considerations.- Even through the Fire: A Meditation on Multispecies Abolitionist Climate Justice.- A thematic analysis examining multispecies equity and mutuality in health and well-being.- Considerations of Ecological Restoration for Multispecies Justice in the face of Climate Change.- Loblolly the Riveter A Comparison of Farmed Trees with Bottomland Forest Trees in the Wood Pellet Industry’s Vegetal Labor Relations Regime.- Multispecies injustice in Indian sugarcane plantations: animal bonded labour, environmental decline and climate change.- Mapping multiscalar multispecies networks across the big and small world(s) of wine.- Scales of Multispecies Climate Justice, Christine Winter.