25 November 2021 – by Earth Refuge Correspondent Laura Corrigan
What role can mitigation and adaptation play in preventing climate migration? What barriers exist to the implementation of long term strategies?
In this interview, correspondent Laura Corrigan and Hellen Dawo discuss adaptation and mitigation as responses to the climate crisis. Hellen shares her insights on the complexity of sustainable entrepreneurship, the collaboration needed to create successful businesses that protect natural areas and the importance of context when looking at climate issues.
If long term solutions to climate problems are to be reached and further displacement avoided, affected communities must not only be brought into the conversation – they must be brought into the work of finding and implementing solutions.
“When you’re dealing with global issues, or national issues or regional issues, it’s always more complex than it really seems, and the solutions really do need a lot of collaboration. And that’s where it gets messy.”
Hellen Dawo (MSc.) is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen. She completed an undergraduate science degree in her home country of Kenya, where, as a chemist, she held a variety of diverse roles in the industry before continuing to pursue a career in research in The Netherlands. Her research now focuses on the interaction between entrepreneurs and sensitive ecological and cultural environments.
