The Oskar von Miller Forum welcomes Professor Joyeeta Gupta, a leading international expert on climate justice and sustainable development. Her lecture will address the link between social inclusion and ecological responsibility as a way to sustainably address global challenges such as climate change, resource distribution and social inequality. She focuses on questions of equitable resource use and the need to phase out fossil fuels in a socially just manner. With her interdisciplinary perspective, she highlights how science-based solutions can help to shape a sustainable and just world.

Professor Joyeeta Gupta is Distinguished Professor of Climate Justice, Sustainability and Global Constitutionalism at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South. In 2023, she was honoured with the Spinoza Prize, the highest academic distinction in the Netherlands, for her groundbreaking scientific contributions. As co-chair of the Earth Commission, she helped develop the theory of ‘Safe and Just Earth System Boundaries’, which was published in the renowned journal Nature in 2023 and received worldwide attention.