Climate change is a pressing issue, but its impacts are not felt equally by everyone. A new report seeks to address this by arguing for the importance of climate justice in the tourism industry.
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Deadly wildfires claimed the lives of 13 people in South Africa recently. Fires will increase as the climate warms. Landowners must stick to the law and try to prevent fires from starting.
The countries most responsible for climate-driven extreme weather must do more to help.
Communities who have lived off the land and the sea for hundreds of years will need to organise if they want to stop giant companies like Shell from destroying their livelihood by mining.
The remote Bassari community, located between Senegal and Guinea, experiences climate change as one of many changes. They are best placed to come up with solutions that work for them.
Indigenous people’s concerns and considerations could provide a strong basis for climate litigation in South Africa.
Global climates are changing and the world is rapidly warming. Canada’s labour laws must keep pace with the rate of change to protect workers.
South African courts are increasingly handing down judgments that take into account the future climate damage that new developments may cause.
Teaching children about the environmental crisis can help fight climate change, but climate change is already negatively affecting children’s education around the globe.
Projections show that there’ll be Indian Ocean dipoles in the future – and that means more rainy days, and more extreme rainfall.
Women need legal aid to sue companies and governments over climate change damage to their communities.
As new climate-related cases are brought to court, our expert outlines key aspects that could change the legal landscape.
For the green transition to be fair and just to people and communities around the globe, countries must change the way energy is used and governed.
By allowing a case against local greenhouse gas emitters to go ahead, the Supreme Court of New Zealand has opened the door to a new front in climate law – one that takes tikanga Māori into account.
Cutting wealth inequality could curb the super-rich’s disproportionate share of emissions.
Africa must guard against new environment friendly trade rules that leave the continent in the poor position of exporting raw materials that developed nations use to manufacture green energy systems.
The African Food Systems Transformation Collective says COP28 must enable transition from fossil-fuelled food systems and leverage indigenous knowledge so that all can sustainably access good food.
Theatre and the arts can be vehicles for thinking globally and acting locally, embracing alternative ways of knowing and acknowledging holistic approaches to addressing climate change.
The pilot project opening in Sydney will use the best available evidence to keep vulnerable people cool on the hottest of days.
A recent study found one billion people are likely to die prematurely by the end of the century from climate change. Here are seven energy policies that could save their lives.
Top contributors
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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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Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Global Environmental Politics, College of the Atlantic
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor & Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Dalhousie University
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Professeur de droit public, Université de Lorraine
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Director of Workforce Development, Clean Energy Council, The University of Melbourne
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Reader, University of York
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Professor of Political Sociology, Keele University
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Reader in Political Sociology, Aston University
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Researcher, Cirad
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, University of Waikato
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
