Climate Justice is not just the right thing to do.
It’s our best hope for solving the climate crisis.
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Six Pillars
What Is Climate Justice?
Climate Justice recognizes the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low-income communities and communities of color around the world, the people and places least responsible for the problem. It seeks solutions that address the root causes of climate change and in doing so, simultaneously address a broad range of social, racial, and environmental injustices. These solutions can be organized into Six Pillars of Climate Justice:
Just Transition
Social, Racial, and Environmental Justice
Indigenous Climate Action
Community Resilience and Adaptation
Natural Climate Solutions
Climate Education and Engagement
Our Mission & Vision
How is transformation possible at this scale?
The Center for Climate Justice’s mission is to leverage and harness the power of the university to support, strengthen, and build an emergent climate justice ecosystem and social movement that solves the climate crisis through science, systems thinking, and social-ecological justice. We do this through innovative broader-impact research, transformative education, and public engagement. We envision a world where extractive systems and economies have been transformed into ones that are regenerative, equitable, and support the sustained wellbeing of all life.
Projects
Resources & Events
World Resources Institute: Special Projects Specialist, Climate
World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, nonprofit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being. They are working to address seven critical challenges that the world must overcome…
This is just how unfair climate change is
We’re all living through the climate crisis. But we’re not all in it together. So what exactly does climate change have to do with social injustice? And how can we fix it? This is climate justice explained. We’re destroying our…
Harriet Washington: Medical Apartheid, Environmental Racism, and Targeted Disinformation
May 24th at 8 PM Eastern RSVP: Tinyurl.com/ssu-hw Harriet Washington is an award-winning historian, medical ethicist, and author of multiple books including Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present and…