The Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change and Mórula Editorial are pleased to announce the release of Da pandemia à mudança climática (From pandemic to climate change), a book written by Prof. José Maurício Domingues that inaugurates the Climate Emergency Collection. On 2 December 2024, the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ) will host the launch event for the publication, starting at 5pm in the Olavo Brasil Room, with a panel discussion featuring the author as well as Prof. Elza Neffa, a member of the Observatory’s Strategic Comitee, and our coordinator, Prof. Carlos R. S. Milani. After the debate, the event will continue with a social reception for those present.

The latest IPCC communication (2021) reinforced that the recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid, intensified and unprecedented. The question is: how does climate change affect us and alter the order of society and politics? Living in suicidal modernity, guided by capitalism, the black box of traditional political issues is reopening. This leads to the need to overcome neoliberalism and practise new forms of transnational responsibility.

Understanding the social and political dimensions of these transformations is fundamental to developing strategies to deal with their impacts. This book is dedicated to just that.

The release can be purchased on Mórula’s official website.

Developed by the OIMC in partnership with the publisher, the Climate Emergency Collection aims to publicise a research agenda aimed at understanding climate change from the perspective of the social and human sciences, building dialogues between social and political actors, mobilising different generations and disseminating proposals for debates within universities, governments and civil society. Coordinated by José Maurício Domingues and Carlos R. S. Milani, this collection will also include at least two more volumes, to be announced soon.