What is Climate Justice?
"Climate Justice is working at the intersections of environmental degradation and the racial, social, and economic inequities it perpetuates."
http://www.peacefuluprising.org/what-is-climate-justice
"The term climate justice has come into widespread use in the climate movement in the past 5 years. As the movement has grown and expanded, it has reached out to parallel movements seeking to address injustice, including labor, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous rights. Climate justice has come to be the overarching term used to define a 'movement of movements' based on the understanding that our unjust political and economic system creates societal inequities AND climate change. Without a focus on correcting injustice, work on climate change addresses only symptoms, and not root causes.
The ethical argument for orienting our work on climate change around climate justice entails the understanding that climate change is a physical manifestation of an unjust political-economic system. The pragmatic argument is that climate justice is a mandate to work in solidarity with local and global communities that are being hit 'first and worst' by climate change. These communities have contributed least to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. Meanwhile, they are the same communities that are historically and currently hit 'first and worst' by gross inequities in our systems of governance."
https://bronxclimatejusticenorth.wordpress.com/about-us/climate-justice/
"The heart of climate justice is the understanding that the urgent action needed to prevent climate change must be based on community-led solutions and the well-being of local communities, Indigenous Peoples and the global poor, as well as biodiversity and intact ecosystems."
https://globaljusticeecology.org/climate-justice/
"A commonly used definition of climate justice also known as environmental justice used by scholars and activists of the movement is the climate justice movement strives to recognize and prevent the disproportionate burdens imposed on poor and minority communities by harmful environmental conditions and create more inclusive opportunities for those who are most affected to be heard in the decisions affecting their communities. The movement is also focused on creating healthy and economically stable communities for the future."
http://350vermont.org/defining-climate-justice/
http://www.peacefuluprising.org/what-is-climate-justice
"The term climate justice has come into widespread use in the climate movement in the past 5 years. As the movement has grown and expanded, it has reached out to parallel movements seeking to address injustice, including labor, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous rights. Climate justice has come to be the overarching term used to define a 'movement of movements' based on the understanding that our unjust political and economic system creates societal inequities AND climate change. Without a focus on correcting injustice, work on climate change addresses only symptoms, and not root causes.
The ethical argument for orienting our work on climate change around climate justice entails the understanding that climate change is a physical manifestation of an unjust political-economic system. The pragmatic argument is that climate justice is a mandate to work in solidarity with local and global communities that are being hit 'first and worst' by climate change. These communities have contributed least to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. Meanwhile, they are the same communities that are historically and currently hit 'first and worst' by gross inequities in our systems of governance."
https://bronxclimatejusticenorth.wordpress.com/about-us/climate-justice/
"The heart of climate justice is the understanding that the urgent action needed to prevent climate change must be based on community-led solutions and the well-being of local communities, Indigenous Peoples and the global poor, as well as biodiversity and intact ecosystems."
https://globaljusticeecology.org/climate-justice/
"A commonly used definition of climate justice also known as environmental justice used by scholars and activists of the movement is the climate justice movement strives to recognize and prevent the disproportionate burdens imposed on poor and minority communities by harmful environmental conditions and create more inclusive opportunities for those who are most affected to be heard in the decisions affecting their communities. The movement is also focused on creating healthy and economically stable communities for the future."
http://350vermont.org/defining-climate-justice/