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The movement for climate justice frames the climate crisis as an ethical, social, environmental and political issue, rather than one that is purely scientific or physical. An important principle of climate justice is that those who are least responsible for climate change are the first and worst affected by its impacts.

Climate justice is not a singular issue. It is deeply tied to land justice, water justice, environmental justice, disability and racial justice. In addition to measuring carbon emissions and temperature data, we must relate the effects of climate change to systemic inequality, the legacy and continuation of Colonialism, human rights and the rights of nature, Capitalism and the historical responsibilities for emissions.

In this toolkit section, we share resources and educational tools to help you understand how these deeply complex and nuanced issues intersect.

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Creative case studies

The Great Derangement

The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh examines our society's collective inability to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.

Rise: From One Island to Another

Poets Kathy Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna collaborated on poem Rise: From One Island to Another, highlighting the disastrous effects of climate change on their homes in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.

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Hot Take

Hot Take is a podcast taking an intersectional, critical, but constructive look at climate coverage. Hosted by climate writer Mary Heglar and climate journalist Amy Westervelt.

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JB Highlights

Creative Climate Justice Guide

Research

JB's introductory guide exploring key climate justice ideas, concepts and issues.

No Environmentalism in a Silo: What it Means to Talk About Race in our Climate Crisis

Profile

Yingbi Lee, one of the producers of The Colour Green podcast shares her reflections on why talking about race is crucial when considering social and climate justice.

Arts Practice as Climate Justice

Video

Watch a recording of JB's Farah Ahmed on 'Arts practice as climate justice', part of Season for Ex-Change

The Colour Green Podcast

Audio

A six-part series hosted by Baroness Lola Young, in conversation with artists and activists of colour, exploring the connections between nature, racial justice and climate change.

Climate Justice in Creative Practice

Video

Rewatch our introductory webinar exploring issues of climate justice

On Loss and Damage

Video

Watch the Julie's Bicycle webinar exploring the concepts of Loss and Damage

Season for Ex-Change: Justice

Video

Thimali Kodikara hosts a panel discussion for Season for Ex-Change on what justice means within, and beyond, and a climate context.

Tackling climate change and building an inclusive movement

Video

Revisit Zena Edwards' keynote talk for Season for Ex-Change, 'Tackling climate change and building an inclusive movement'

Additional resources

Intersectional Environmentalist

Profile

A platform for resources and information to support an intersectional approach to environmentalism.

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The Principles of Environmental Justice

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The Principles of Environmental Justice were developed by delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held in Washington DC, in 1991. They are a defining set of guidelines for the environmental justice movement.

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Global Witness

Profile

An organisation campaigning to end environmental and human rights abuses driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system.

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Stop Ecocide

Profile

This campaign aims to make Ecocide - the mass damage or destruction of ecosystems - a crime under international law.

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Gender CC

Research

Gender CC is a directory of resources exploring the ties between gender inequality and climate injustice

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The Environmental Justice Atlas

Research

An interactive tool documenting and cataloguing global conflict around environmental issues.

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This Changes Everything

Book

Naomi Klein is an author who has written extensively about climate change and it's ties to Capitalism in her books This Changes Everything, The Battle For Paradise, and On Fire.

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Climate in Colour

Network

Resources, articles and videos exploring the connection between climate science and social justice

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Dr Vandana Shiva

Book

Dr Vandana Shiva has written more than 20 books covering topics including agro-ecology, ecofeminism, biodiversity, biopiracy and food sovereignty.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and Teachings of Plants

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Indigenous author Robin Wall Kimmerer explores botany through Native American traditions and it's relationship to Western science.

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Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology

Book

T J Demos explores how artists and activists have utilised culture for climate justice.

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Drilled

Audio

Drilled is a "true-crime" podcast about climate change.

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