The Climate Justice (CJ) Deal is a set of policies that translate the principles and systemic alternatives described in the Climate Justice Charter into policy form. In this podcast, we interview academics, researchers and activists on ideas and articles that have influenced the creation of the CJ Deal for South Africa.

Our guest for this episode is Prof. Patrick Bond. Patrick is a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. He is also a Professor of Sociology at the  University of Johannesburg. In today’s conversation, we brought our focus to the South African context. We looked at the question of climate debt from a regional perspective, whilst looking at questions concerning the concept of  natural capital and the commons