In our latest episode, we feature another recorded panel from the Advancing Mobility Justice, Gender Equity, and Climate Action through Sport Symposium. This episode, called 'Exploring Climate Justice and Sport (for Development),' brings together leading scholars working to critically explore and unravel the assumptions that underpin ‘sustainability;’ while also considering what happens when sustainability is mobilized without justice.

Other key tensions explored in this conversation include:

How climate action in sport for development is often fragmented

The persistence of global North-South power dynamics in through SDP and environmental politics

Why we need to move beyond technical fixes toward more ecological and relationship understandings of sport

Importantly, this episode challenges us to rethink sport not simply as a tool for change, but as part of the material and environmental systems we are trying to transform. For those working across sport, development, climate and policy - this is an invitation to ask: 1) What are we sustaining, and at what cost? 2) Whose knowledge and priorities are shaping climate agendas? What is the role of the education sector in all this? 3) What might more justice-oriented approaches actually look like?

Panelists featured in this panel include:

Dr. Brad Millington, Associate Professor of Sport Management at Brock University; Dr. Brian Wilson, a Professor and the Director of the Centre for Sport and Sustainability in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia; Dr. Simon Darnell, a Professor and Director of the Centre for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto. Dr. Christina Kwauk, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Unbounded Associates.

Ultimately, this conversation invites us to see sport not simply as an ‘intervention’ - but as a site of struggle, responsibility, and possibility in the face of the climate crisis.

Dr. Brad Millington's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-millington-a0312149/

Dr. Simon Darnell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-darnell-569abbb9/

Dr. Christina Kwauk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-kwauk/

Featured in this podcast: Dr. Brian Wilson, Dr. Brad Millington, Dr. Simon Darnell, Dr. Christina Kwauk, and Dr. Lyndsay Hayhurst.

Music by: Kevin McLeod and Broke for Free via the 'Free Music Archive'

Album artwork: Keiron Cobban

Symposium Series: Exploring Climate Justice and Sport (for Development)