“Analysing Decolonial Climate Perspectives” is a must-read for the Green Climate Fund. The GCF emphasises country ownership and country-driven approaches to climate investments. According to the Fund, “country ownership is an ongoing and evolving process: it is not a fixed state.” Understanding, acknowledging and addressing how past and present colonialism affects countries in the global south is part of this evolving process.

Of particular note are the research’s recommendations, including “(a) creating more bottom-up and decolonial supporting mechanisms, such as embedding cultural and education components, (b) centering marginalized perspectives, this involves valuing the perspectives of those who have been historically marginalized as well as creating opportunities for their voices to be heard through proactive listening mechanisms, (c) allowing locals to co-create as an exercise that forms part of the decolonization of knowledge, a concept that has been advanced in decolonial scholarship to critique the perceived hegemony of Western knowledge systems, and (d) multiplying the number of artistical disciplines considered, building lasting connections, especially through physical presence/face-to-face encounters, have the power to reshape imaginations.”

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