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 UC 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
Environment, Justice, and the Politics of Emotion: A Symposium
As climate and ecological crises mount, so too are intense experiences of environmental emotions including eco-anxiety, fear, grief, guilt, skepticism, anger, and trauma, as well as less discussed affective experiences such as pleasure, joy, amusement, wonder, optimism, ambivalence, apathy, and…
Conference Opportunity: Bioneers
Join Bioneers on April 6-8th for their 34th Annual Conference, Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature. The gathering will bring together a diverse array of climate, social justice, and ecological governance leaders to convene around breakthrough solutions for both…
ECCLPs Recruitment Opportunity
Join the UC–CSU Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects (ECCLPs, pronounced “eclipse”) initiative that is advancing prekindergarten through 12th grade (PK–12) climate and environmental literacy, justice, and action! ECCLPs Executive Director Kelley Lê is seeking 15 committee members for three…