Often those most impacted by climate change are those least able to engage with climate discourse. Universities have a responsibility to engage with these communities.
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An unprecedented win for climate justice in Montana has the potential to send reverberations around the world, including here in Canada.
Climate change and related droughts, hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather events are making it harder.
The United Nations’ decision to ask the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on countries’ climate obligations has been hailed as a ‘turning point in climate justice’.
There have been 27 UN COP meetings. Despite these negotiations, the planet is on target to exceed emission thresholds for global warming. Given these failures, why continue with this process?
An expert in climate justice reports from Sharm El Sheikh.
The new Global Shield won’t work as ultimately rich countries and companies must foot the bill.
Wealthy nations have been reluctant to put loss and damage on the COP27 agenda. If negotiations fail, they could ‘unravel the fragile hopes for climate solidarity’
Stronger pledges, more climate finance, and payments for loss and damage.
That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial.
Carbon taxes targeting luxury emissions are more popular than those which make necessities more expensive.
Seas are rising in the Torres Strait, swamping crops and graveyards. Friday’s decision by a landmark UN committee is a breakthrough for Indigenous rights and climate justice.
Developing countries want industrialised countries to pay reparations for loss and damage caused by climate change. Even with disasters ramping up, wealthy nations are resisting.
In the UK, ethnic minorities are four times more likely to live in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods.
Most rich white countries, including Australia, refuse to accept the climate debt they owe to poorer countries and communities.
Some children and youth find the effects of climate change are traumatic. Taking a trauma-informed approach to education can nurture resilience.
Two Bangladeshi academics spoke to delegates at the Glasgow COP.
Permaculture – a mashup of ‘permanent’ and ‘culture’ – is a way of doing agriculture that’s inspired by the resilience and biodiversity of healthy natural ecosystems.
A simplistic ‘all livestock are bad’ narrative is promoted by campaigners, celebrities, philanthropists and policymakers alike. A much more sophisticated debate is needed.
The focus of climate talks has been on how little time is left is for global action. But climate change has already made tobacco farming, potentially a route out of poverty, unviable for some.
Principais colaboradores
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Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Director Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Global Environmental Politics, College of the Atlantic
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Associate Professor & Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Dalhousie University
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Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Bradford
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Assistant Professor of Institutional Dynamics in Sustainability, Utrecht University
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Professor of Dryland Hydrology, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor of Hydrology and Geomorphology, Cardiff University
