Climate Justice
Living the SDGs in Bhopal
Forty years after the world's worst industrial disaster — health, livelihoods and grassroots organising in one of India's most pivotal cities.
Overview
In December 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal killed thousands overnight and left hundreds of thousands more with lifelong health impacts. Four decades later, the disaster is still unfolding — through contaminated groundwater, intergenerational illness and an unfinished fight for justice.
On this session, learners travel to Bhopal to meet the survivors and the new generation of organisers carrying the work forward. We visit health clinics, women's livelihood cooperatives and education programmes — and ask what the SDGs really mean in a city built on the legacy of corporate harm.
Bhopal is a powerful reminder that climate and environmental justice are not abstract — they are lived, contested and won by people every single day.
What you'll take away
- Understand the long arc of the Bhopal gas tragedy
- Meet survivors, organisers and a new generation of activists
- Connect industrial accountability to the SDGs
- Explore what climate justice means in practice
How it works
This session is part of Globe From Home's Planetary Citizenship Program. This can be booked as a stand-alone masterclass or as part of the full programme. Once a date is confirmed, we send a private access link. Learners can join collectively from classrooms or individually on any mobile device.