University Library of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The University Library of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam invites speakers from various fields to illustrate the importance of open access publishing for climate justice. This event will take place on Thursday 27 October and is part of the international Open Access Week 2022. The theme of Open Access Week 2022 is "Open for Climate Justice." We address the unequal access to knowledge about the climate crisis between various groups of people and stimulate the sharing of knowledge and collaborations within the global climate movement.The effects of climate justice have an enormous impact on everyone – but the impacts are 'not be[ing] borne equally or fairly, between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations,' as the UN notes. These imbalances of power affect communities' abilities to produce, disseminate and use knowledge around the climate crisis. Openness can create pathways to more equitable knowledge sharing and serve as a means to address the inequities that shape the impacts of climate change and our response to them. Sharing knowledge is a human right and tackling the climate crisis requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across geographic, economic and disciplinary boundaries. Four speakers coming from different academic disciplines will shed their light on the relation between open access and climate justice. This event will take place at the 3D Debate centre on the campus of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.