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Given the spectre of Trump’s drill-baby-drill, and accompanying pressure to expand oil and gas infrastructure in the United States and Canada, researchers and advocates are confronted with deepening global obstacles to a just energy transition.  Informed by the  of the , this symposium brings together a diverse group of scholars, community leaders and activists, legal experts, and international advocates - to examine the relationship between the prospects for a global just transition, the Nigerian Niger Delta’s enduring environmental crisis, and extractive violence in resource-rich areas in North America and elsewhere.

Keynote Address:ÌýNnimmo Bassey,Ìý 91ÑÇÉ«U Honorary Doctorate and renowned global environmental justice activist, author, architect, director of the ecological think tank Health of Mother Earth Foundation (Nigeria), recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and 91ÑÇÉ« Honorary Doctor of Laws, on April 10 at 3pm, 519 Kaneff Tower, 91ÑÇÉ«

This symposium is organized by the International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution in the Niger Delta with support and co-sponsorship from the following units at 91ÑÇÉ«: Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change; the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security; the Harriett Tubman Institute, 91ÑÇÉ« International, and the Vice-President for Research & Innovation.