Lecture From the Planetary to the Global Add to calendar 2024-01-31 15:30 2024-01-31 17:30 Europe/Rome From the Planetary to the Global Sala degli Stemmi Villa Salviati - Castle YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Jan 31 2024 15:30 - 17:30 CET Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati - Castle Organised by Department of History EUI History Professor Glenda Sluga gives a talk in the framework of the HEC Colloquia hosted by the EUI Department of History. In 2023, the appointment of an ‘oilman’ to lead one of the most important climate change conferences of our time, COP28, raised some controversy. But it was not the first time that oilmen have taken the lead in international environmental governance. In this seminar, Professor Glenda Sluga looks at how ‘oilmen’ were involved in the earliest examples of international environmental governance. She argues that this historical focus helps us see the extent and significance of early 1970s’ debates focused on the ‘planetary’, and the conceptual shift at the intersections of environmental and economic thought towards ‘globalisation’, the paradigm that dominated international and global thinking in the latter decades of the 20th century.