Othering & Belonging Institute

For decades, communities across Asia–Pacific have been at the forefront of environmental transformation and climate vulnerability. The region encompasses immense ecological diversity and deep histories of colonial extraction, uneven development, and labor exploitation. Today, as the global race toward decarbonization and “green growth” accelerates, Asia–Pacific peoples face both the intensification of climate impacts and the reconfiguration of extractive economies under new forms of climate colonialism.