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Bookmark or Share- Climate change is a matter of justice – here’s whyClimate justice means putting equity and human rights at the core of decision-making and action on climate change. The concept has been widely used to refer to the unequal historical responsibility that countries and communities bear in relation to the climate crisis.
- Climate Justice | MIT Climate PortalClimate justice is the principle that the benefits reaped from activities that cause climate change and the burdens of climate change impacts should be distributed fairly. Climate justice means that countries that became wealthy through unrestricted climate pollution have the greatest responsibility to not only stop warming the planet, but also ...
- Climate justice - WikipediaClimate justice is an approach to climate action that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. [1] Climate justice wants to achieve an equitable distribution of both the burdens of climate change and the efforts to mitigate climate change. [2]
- What is Climate Justice? - UC Center for Climate JusticeClimate justice connects the climate crisis to the social, racial and environmental issues in which it is deeply entangled. It recognizes the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low-income and BIPOC communities around the world, the people and places least responsible for the problem.
- Climate Justice - Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe emission of greenhouse gases is resulting in increased temperatures, rising sea-levels, and severe weather events (such as storm surges). These climatic changes raise a number of issues of justice. These include (but are not limited to) the following.
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