By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
In the case of integrative climate-related policies that seek to redress injustices, as well as to address Earth's warming, it is essential to have a clear understanding of the terms environmental, energy, and climate justice. Although sharing some core characteristics, e.g., limiting access to the policymaking process, the terms are not interchangeable.
By Khalil Shahyd, NRDC
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing deep inequalities in race and economic status, and the inadequacy of the nation’s social safety nets. Still, the massive social disruption caused by the pandemic offers important lessons to consider as we craft strategies for aggressive climate action.
By Nia Aisha, Resilience.org
As of right now, climate justice does not have a unified definition. Its meaning changes depending on who is using it so let me make my vision very clear. Climate justice is collective liberation by another name.
By Natalie Suzelis, Uneven Earth
In The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, Stan Cox has a message for all who were counting on the Green New Deal to help save us from ecological and economic collapse: this legislation will not go far enough. C
By Gabrielle Lipton, Global Landscapes Forum
Van Noordwijk is one of the foremost researchers when it comes to investigating the interplay between climate change and human movements, oftentimes through the lens of agroforestry.
By Natasha Adams, thinkingdoingchanging
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is an international movement that uses nonviolent civil disobedience to achieve radical change in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The task of addressing climate change is so large that the only way in which it can be addressed with any success is if everyone is involved. As long as so many people are focused every day on just getting what they need to live, such broad involvement will be impossible. Are there ways to build the solidarity and involvement we need to fight climate change?
By Lili Fuhr, P2P Foundation
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible, and it is our best hope of achieving environmental and social justice, of containing the impacts of a global crisis that was born out of historical injustice and highly unequal responsibility.
By Kyla Mandel, Think Progress
Wealth inequality dramatically increases between white communities and communities of color in the U.S. following a natural disaster, a new study found.
By Samuel Miller McDonald, Activist Lab
You and I are witnessing the twenty-first century’s great crime: a global holocaust whose first victims have already perished. Fossil energy economies are doing this. They transform the world into a deathly, suffocating hothouse sabotaging the climate and atmosphere. That’s what they do.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
Three strikes and the Trump administration is now out—or more accurately “in.” Trump and company have now been told by the US Supreme Court in a very brief 5-4 decision that they must stand in open court and defend themselves against the charge they are denying the 21 youthful clients in the court their constitutional right to a habitable environment.
By Tegan Tallulah, The Climate Lemon
Looking into this has made me even more convinced that tackling global poverty has to be done in tandem with tackling climate change. They are intricately connected. I think it’s important that we remember climate change is a historical injustice: the poorest countries suffer the worst impacts yet have done least to cause it and have the least capacity to address it.