Rovijn, Croatia, 2021
Radio
‘Wiedergutmachung für Klimachaden’, interview in German for the Podcast Hinterfragt. December 2023.
Available in Spotify and Apple Podcasts
Wer sollte für Klimaschäden aufkommen? Darüber wird politisch unter dem Stichwort “Loss and Damage” gestritten. Doch welche philosophischen Prinzipien könnten der Wiedergutmachung für Klimaschäden zugrunde gelegt werden? Ein Gespräch mit Laura García‐Portela (Erasmus Universität Rotterdam).
Canadian CBC Radio. Podcast IDEAS. Episode on Climate reparations. December 2022.
IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, it’s for people who like to think.
A summary of the program can be read here.
Magazines
Garcia-Portela, L. (2020) Connecting climate justice, human rights and burden-sharing: A philosophical perspective, 29(3) Human Rights Defender 11.
The Human Rights Defender digital publication is published monthly by the Australian Human Rights Institute and features interviews, research updates and commentary by Institute staff and its 200+ Associates on a broad range of human rights topics. In this short piece, I do three things. Firstly, I define dangerous climate change invoking the notion of human rights. Secondly, I argue that climate justice concerns the protection against human rights impacts caused by climate change through mitigation and adaptation measures, as well as the compensation for the impact. Thirdly, I argue that climate justice also requires a fair burden-sharing scheme and propose three alternative principles of justice.
Blog posts
Normative dimensions of the attribution of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change in Climate Footnotes. October 2020
Covid-19, Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice in Climate Footnotes April 2020
Climate Footnotes was a blog designed and run by students of the Doctoral Programme Climate Change – Uncertainties, Thresholds and Coping Strategies of the University of Graz. The blog aims at being a platform for an interdisciplinary group of climate change researchers to share insights from their research, reflect on current research and developments in regards to climate change, and to provide early stage researchers a platform to engage with a broader public.
Newspaper editorials
From 2017 to 2022, I collaborated with ‘Última Llamada’, a blog attached to the Spanish newspaper eldiario.es. The blog featured a good number of editorials from scientists and public intelectuals raising awareness about the ecological crisis. Below there are some of the editorials I wrote for this newspaper.
La COP27 y el Fondo de Pérdidas y Daños eldiario.es December 2022
Algunas claves para desmontar argumentos ‘negacionistas’ contra la litigación climática contra los estados eldiario.es September 2018
COP23: tres argumentos para insistir en las demandas de compensación. eldiario.es November 2017
¿Qué hay de moralmente pernicioso en el cambio climático? eldiario.es April 2017
Defender la filosofía como espacio de resistencia Infolibre November 2019
Políticas climáticas: cuando el éxito del futuro depende de la reconciliación con el pasado InfoLibre August 2017
Laura García-Portela 