IC18: How can geopolitical strategy advance sustainability?

Show notes

In this episode, Kaisa brings back last week’s discussion about geopolitics taking over from sustainability. We go through several ways how climate action makes sense from a geopolitical perspective, i.e. protecting state interests from external pressure (did anyone say ‘strategic autonomy’?). Green energy fits the bill well, but how do human rights and biodiversity protection fit under the “geopolitical packaging” of sustainability?

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Sources

• Think Tank the European Parliament: EU green strategic autonomy: The challenge of combining two objectives (2023) (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2023)747465))
• Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect: Addressing Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier of Atrocities (2025) (https://www.globalr2p.org/resources/addressing-climate-change-as-a-threat-multiplier-of-atrocities/))
• Benjamin Wray: China and the politics of the green transition (2025) (https://www.tni.org/en/article/china-and-the-geopolitics-of-the-green-transition))