Outreach

Rovijn, Croatia, 2021

I understand outreach as an integral part of philosophical work. Philosophy matters not only in academic journals and classrooms, but also when it helps wider publics making sense of their world, including urgent ethical and political challenges.

My public engagement has two focuses: one on climate ethics and climate justice, and another one on the public value of philosophy as a place of resistance and something to be protected against budget cuts at all educational levels. Since 2014, I aim to make philosophical work on those topics accessible through different formats, including podcasts, radio, newspaper essays, interviews, public events, blogs, and educational initiatives.

My commitment to public philosophy as been recently recognised with the 2026 Andrew Light Award in Public Philosophy from the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE).

Radio

  1. ‘Wiedergutmachung für Klimachaden’, interview in German for the Podcast Hinterfragt about my book manuscript. December 2023. Available in Spotify and Apple Podcasts
  2. Canadian CBC Radio. Podcast IDEAS. Episode on Climate reparations. December 2022.A summary of the program can be read here.

Interviews

  1. Science Media Center in Germany. Expert opinion: Advice of the German Ethics Advisory Board on Climate Justice for the German Parliament, 2024
  2. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (Germany) on individual emissions, 2023          
  3. La Caixa Foundation, 2021   
  4. El Laboratorio, 2021
  5. Radio Nacional de España about the value of philosophy, 2014

Magazines

  1. Garcia-Portela, L. (2020) Connecting climate justice, human rights and burden-sharing: A philosophical perspective, 29(3) Human Rights Defender 11.

Blog posts

  1. Normative dimensions of the attribution of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change in Climate Footnotes. October 2020
  2. Covid-19, Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice in Climate Footnotes April 2020

Newspaper editorials

eldiario.es

  1. La COP27 y el Fondo de Pérdidas y Daños eldiario.es December 2022
  2. Algunas claves para desmontar argumentos ‘negacionistas’ contra la litigación climática contra los estados eldiario.es September 2018
  3. COP23: tres argumentos para insistir en las demandas de compensación. eldiario.es November 2017
  4. ¿Qué hay de moralmente pernicioso en el cambio climático? eldiario.es April 2017

infoblibre

  1. Defender la filosofía como espacio de resistencia infoLibre November 2019
  2. Políticas climáticas: cuando el éxito del futuro depende de la reconciliación con el pasado infoLibre August 2017