Modelling injustice: South experts call for climate model paradigm shift

“A growing body of scientists and experts in the Global South are calling for what they see as ‘blinkered’ and ‘neo-colonialist’ assumptions in climate change mitigation models to be addressed. They argue that scenarios presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which inform policy at the national and global level, project unequal futures where developing countries remain poor for decades… Such modelling approaches ‘perpetuate a cycle of poverty and under-development’, hindering progress towards achieving sustainable development goals and improving the well-being of populations in countries in the Global South.”