In this page there are all the multimedia and presentations materials of the First International Conference on Climate Actions and Just Transiton held on 04th April 2025 as the inaugural event of the new Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Just Fossil Fuel Transition and international research group “Climate Change, Territories, Diversity” of University of Padova, Italy
Speakers
The 35 Years of Jean Monnet Initiatives EU and the World
Sophie Beernaerts
Sophie Beernaerts is the Director of the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). She has over 15 years of professional experience devoted entirely to education, culture, and citizenship within the European Commission.
Her career is distinguished by significant expertise, including a pivotal role in negotiations with national authorities on behalf of the Commission, as well as the effective management of multiple units across various Commission departments.
“Together, we cultivate a generation that is not only aware of European dynamics, but is also equipped to contribute to European projects, and together, we can imagine alternatives as you are aiming to do today. So we hope that by supporting those EU studies we can inspire future leaders, future policy makers that will advocate for the values that underpin the EU that will advocate for the policies that we will have been developing together.“
Climates of transition: Coal, cotton and capitalogenic crisis
Jason W. Moore
Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He teaches and writes on the history of power, profit and life – including today’s climate crisis. He is a critic of the fossil capital thesis directly related to the tasks of the socialist movement. Moore is the author or editor of several books, including Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) and A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017, with Raj Patel). Moore coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network and the World-Ecology Research Group at Binghamton University.
Research and Activism for just transition and leaving fossil fuels underground
Massimo De Marchi
Massimo De Marchi is a professor in geography at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA) of University of Padova (Unipd). He is the director of the unique Centre for innovative research and didactics on Climate Justice at European Union level (10 professors, 3 postdocs, and 4 PhD students) and of the Advanced Master in GIScience and UAV (Unipd). He has more than 20 years of experience on participatory processes and managment of socio-environmental conflicts in complex territories with high biological and cultural diversity, territorial and environmental policies, climate justice, sustainable local development, tourism and regional sustainability. He worked as a researcher and consultant in Italy, in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Canada
Stop Fossil Fuels from Fueling Conflict: Why we need a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah has been designing and winning environmental campaigns in Canada and internationally for 30 years. She is founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, and she holds different roles in other context as co-founder at Stand.earth, co-director of Greenpeace International’s Climate Energy Program and the Co-founder of ForestEthics. In 2016, Tzeporah was appointed by the Premier of Alberta to co-chair of the Oil Sands Advisory Working Group. In 2019, Tzeporah was awarded the Climate Breakthrough Award to develop a bold new global climate strategy. In 2024 she was named among TIME’s 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders.
Who pays the pathway on low-carbon societies? Political ecology reflections on the real victims of the transition
Benjamin Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University in the United States, where he is the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Sustainability. He is also Professor of Energy Policy at the Bennett Institute for Innovation & Policy Acceleration at the University of Sussex Business School and Director of the Sussex Energy Group at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). He works on issues pertaining to energy policy, energy justice, energy security, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his research focuses on renewable energy and energy efficiency, the politics of large-scale energy infrastructure, the ethics and morality of energy decisions, designing public policy to improve energy security and access to electricity, and building adaptive capacity to the consequences of climate change.
