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Information & resources

Black Climate Week @ Solutions Project

Climate & energy @ Global Justice Now

Climate Equity Reference Calculator @ Climate Equity Reference Project

Climate Files

· “...an archival database of news, information and documents. The information compiled

here is collected from various sources and is based on more than 20 years of research

and data collection."

Climate Justice @ Institute for Policy Studies

Climate Justice Syllabus

Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs)

· “...a Equity Reference Framework that is designed to support an emergency global climate

mobilization while, at the same time, preserving the rights of all people to reach a dignified

level of sustainable human development free of the privations of poverty. It’s basic approach,

which is to calculate a Responsibility and Capacity Index for all countries and to apply that

index within an effort-sharing framework, is the basis of the Climate Equity Reference Calculator

and the Climate Equity Pledge Scorecard."

Ethics and Climate

[Inside] The Movement [ITM]

· "ITM is a new way to connect us all — the billions of people who care about climate change.

It’s a place where we can all go, each week, to learn what is happening in the movement and

to share what inspires us or concerns us with our friends and family. It’s a way for us to all

easily take part and take action. We know that you don't have time to scour the Internet every

day to find out what's going on. ITM does that for you and puts the actions, campaigns, stories,

success, challenges and reflections of the climate movement ALL IN ONE PLACE."

National Climate Justice

Real Solutions, Not Net-Zero

Stop the Money Pipeline

Think 100% @ Hip Hop Caucus

Networks & initiatives

Climate Justice Alliance

· Ruckus Society page

Climate Justice Network

· “...We are a network of academics, policymakers, practitioners, and civil society activists

engaged in climate justice issues. While the main focus of work is on the rapidly urbanizing

regions in the global South, our work is informed by comparative analyses that cut across the

global North-South divides.”

The Climate Mobilization

Debt for Climate!

· “...a grassroots, Global South-driven initiative connecting social & climate justice struggles by

uniting labor, social and climate movements from the Global South & North toward a common

goal of turning debt-trap diplomacy on its head by canceling the debt of impoverished nations

as a way to pay for leaving fossil fuels in the ground and financing a just transition. The

implementation of a global Debt-for-Climate initiative has the potential to leave trillions of

dollars in fossil fuel reserves in the ground, while freeing countries from a strangling debt

burden often used as a tool for further extraction of natural resources.”

Initiative for Energy Justice

Northeast Climate Justice Research Collaborative

Real Solutions - Not 'Net Zero'

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Climate Justice

Funders

Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund

Donors of Color

· Climate Funders Justice Pledge

Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice

Energy democracy

energy-democracy.net

Energy Democracy [organization]

Energy Democracy [book]

Energy democracy @ CJA

Energy democracy @ Wikipedia

Energy Democracy Project

Energy democracy @ Transnational Institute

Global Justice Now [UK]

Climate

Platform London

Berlin Energy Roundtable

Alternative Information and Development Centre

Energy democracy & climate justice

Climate Crisis @ Public Services International

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy

Select readings in climate justice

· In reverse chronological order

Why the Larger Climate Movement Is Finally Embracing the Fight Against Environmental Racism

· 2020, Justin Worland, TIME Magazine

· Recounts the 2019 gas leak and subsequent fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex.

· Transitions into a greater conversation negative impact on air pollution.

· Examines the disproportional impact on communities of color and air pollution, with specific discussion

of conditions such as asthma.

Equity, climate justice and fossil fuel extraction: principles for a managed phase out

· 2020, Greg Muttitt and Sivan Kartha, Climate Policy

· Discusses the impacts and economic challenges of fossil fuel extraction and transition and explores

how to equitably approach a rapid transition away from fossil fuel extraction.

· Presents five guiding principles as a foundation for a just transition away from fossil fuel extraction

including curbing extraction consistent with environmental justice and 1.5°C of warming, a just

transition for workers and communities, and an equitable distribution of costs and responsibilities

· Outlines how these principles could be applied, emphasizing that the proposed measures must be

paired with efforts to address environmental injustice and equity issues.

· Poses questions such as: how should impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations be

balanced with the impacts of a transition away from fossil fuels, and who should bear the

responsibility and costs of transition?

Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

· 2018, Mary Robinson, Bloomsbury Publishing

· Former President of Ireland Robinson unveils how women must be given a voice and a seat at the

table in the discussion about climate change and the future

· Explores how we all have a role in the fight against climate change, and the necessity of hearing

from people with a diverse array of backgrounds

· Provides snapshots of life in the face of climate change from the perspective of Ugandan farmers

who are climate activists, US citizens, Robinson's own family, and others

· Provides a “matriarchal” lens that must be encompassed in climate solutions

Urban climate justice: creating sustainable pathways for humans and other species

· June 2015, Wendy Steele, Luis Mata, and Hartmut Fünfgeld

· Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

· Examines the topic of urban climate justice, focusing on the connections between environmental

sustainability, human vulnerability, and biodiversity loss.

· Discusses the disproportionate negative impacts of climate change and rapid urbanization, in

addition to the resulting exacerbation of existing social injustices and vulnerabilities, on low-

income and marginalized urban communities that have limited capabilities to adapt to climate

change.

· Highlights the need to address the impacts and equity issues of climate change on both humans

and other ecological communities and species that play an important role in biodiversity, working

to create an equitable, interdisciplinary transition focusing on eco-social justice and equity in cities.

Local level climate justice? Adaptation finance and vulnerability reduction

· December 2013, Sam Barrett, Global Environmental Change

· Discusses the development of a framework for analyzing adaptation finance effectiveness and

outlines data collected on the effectiveness of adaptation finance collected across 18 villages in

Malawi, a climate vulnerable area and recipient of significant funds targeting adaptation.

· Shows adaptation finance to be a relatively effective method to address climate threats, with

villages that received adaptation funding being able to address more risks and increases individual

agency and long-term security.

· Presents evidence of villages that received adaptation funding having increased capacity to

implement both negative and positive adaptations, while villages taking informal action tended to

adopt mainly negative adaptations and short-term coping strategies.

A Policy Approach Toward Climate Justice

· September 2016, Jalonne Lynay White-Newsome, The Black Scholar

· Discusses how low-income and communities of color, specifically African Americans, are the

least responsible for climate change but are disproportionately experiencing the impacts of the

climate crisis, perpetuated by a system of environmental racism.

· Emphasizes how climate justice efforts that consider the health, economic, social and

environmental impacts of climate change are needed at the international, national, and local

levels to effectively address the capitalistic and political systems that perpetuate environmental

injustices.

· Presents recommendations for a more transparent government reporting process to ensure

accountability, measures to increase grassroots engagement, and essential elements needed in

climate justice legislation.

Hiding behind the poor

· 2007, G. Ananthapadmanabhan; K. Srinivas; Vinuta Gopal, GreenPeace India

· Discusses how the Indian government can implement CBDR amongst the various groups within India

(on an intra-governmental level) and asks the question, where are climate injustices taking place within

India?)

· Asks, who is responsible for India's emissions and who is ultimately living the consequences of these

actions?

Equity, environmental justice and sustainability: Incomplete approaches in climate change politics

· 2003, Jekwu Ikeme, Global Environmental Change

· Differentiates between the concepts of equity and environmental justice, which the author argues

are often conflated.

· Also highlights the disconnect between theoretical approaches and development plans for addressing

climate challenges.

· Investigates these differences to ensure that public policy plans effectively address the issue of climate

justice.

Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice

· 2001, Professor Paul N Edwards, Clark A. Miller. Chapter 9 of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert

Knowledge and Environmental Governance, The MIT Press

· Discusses the historical unwillingness of nations that contribute the most to climate change (the

US, Japan, Norway, and more) to take responsible measures to reduce their respective greenhouse

gas emissions

· Explores how mitigation efforts rarely consider potential injustices that may arise from the proposed

solutions

· Poses questions such as: what are the ethical problems with our global climate change solutions?

Indigenous Principles of Just Transition2021

· November 1998, Indigenous Environmental Network

· Written at the Circles of Wisdom: Native Peoples/Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop

held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in November of 1998.

· Presents 17 principles–separated into three sections: Responsibility and Relationship, Sovereignty,

and Transformation to Action–to guide Indigenous peoples in rebuilding their nations and communities

to center sustainable and healthy economies and ways of life while maintaining traditional Indigenous

practices and knowledge.

· Outlines a framework for a transition to an ecologically sustainable, equitable and just economy,

focusing on strategies to democratize, decentralize and diversify economic activity, decrease our

consumption, and redistribute resources and power.

Three definitions of Climate Justice

Mary Robinson: Climate justice “insists on a shift from a discourse on greenhouse gases and melting ice caps into a civil rights movement with the people and communities most vulnerable to climate impacts at its heart.”

YCC: “‘Climate justice’ is a term, and more than that a movement, that acknowledges climate change can have differing social, economic, public health, and other adverse impacts on underprivileged populations. Advocates for climate justice are striving to have these inequities addressed head-on through long-term mitigation and adaptation strategies.”

Wikipedia: “Climate justice is a concept that addresses the ethical dimensions of climate change. Applied ethics, research and activism using the term approach anthropogenic climate change as an ethical, legal and political issue, rather than one that is purely environmental or physical in nature. This is done by relating the causes and effects of climate change to concepts of justice, particularly environmental justice and social justice. Climate justice examines concepts such as equality, human rights, collective rights, and the historical responsibilities for climate change.”