Intercultural dialogue and engagement for sustainable climate action : applied research project 2024-2025

Abstract

This report was co-authored by Nora Lucía Caro Cabanillas, Jahnavi Eluru, Sojeong Kim, and Ana Landeta Fernández as part of a research partnership between Globethics and the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)."...this research explores how intercultural dialogue (ICD) can contribute to sustainable climate action by amplifying ethical narratives, enabling solidarity, and integrating marginalized voices into climate discourse. It responds to critiques that dominant models - rooted in scientific rationalism and Western liberalism - overlook traditional knowledge, Indigenous frameworks, and spiritual worldviews (Sun & Shi, 2024; Arthur, 2011). By foregrounding dialogue as a method of knowledge co-production and ethical engagement, this study aims to bridge the gap between global policy frameworks and culturally rooted action". (Introduction, p. 4