THE GIBSON CLIMATE JUSTICE LAB
Researching global climate governance with a justice framework
in an effort to uplift civil society through communication and education.
RESEARCH
The Gibson Climate Justice Lab examines climate governance and climate justice through collaborative, community-engaged research partnerships. The annual negotiations of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change remain a core focus, alongside research on carbon markets, geoengineering, and other emerging areas of global climate policy. Across these areas, we investigate how international climate decisions are shaped, whose knowledge and interests are recognized, and how their consequences are experienced by historically marginalized and underrepresented communities.
"I think what's unique about the work that we're doing is really focusing on the climate justice narratives, groups, activists, [and] organizations that exist in this COP space, and a lot of this focus is then bringing light to issues from groups that tend to be marginalized from this very high-level political process. It's beneficial in that we're shining a light on voices from the Global South, indigenous groups, communities of color, gendered perspectives, that often don't get much air time."
- Lab Director Dr. Shannon Gibson
METHOD
The Gibson Climate Justice Lab is a collaborative research hub that brings students and faculty together with advocacy organizations, community partners, researchers and other climate justice practitioners. Through interdisciplinary research, policy analysis, environmental communication, curriculum development, and multimedia storytelling, students contribute to real-world projects shaped by partners’ priorities across local, national, and international scales. Above all, our hope is to provide critical climate justice analysis and to continue to serve and amplify the voices of those often marginalized including but not limited to communities of color, Indigenous Peoples, women, youth, and countries of the Global South.
WHAT IS THE GCJ LAB?
FEATURED
BLOG POSTS
The Gibson Climate Justice Lab is an independent academic research and education initiative. Content published by the Lab reflects the research, analysis, and perspectives of its authors and contributors and should not be interpreted as official positions of the University of Southern California.