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Gendered and racial impacts of the fossil fuel industry in North America and complicit financial institutions +
The report addresses the gender and race-specific health and safety impacts as well as human and Indigenous rights issues of fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure in the United States and selected parts of Canada. The report also exposes the role that financial institutions, including banks, asset managers, and insurance companies, play in preserving and perpetuating negative gender and racial impacts due to the financing, insuring, and investing in fossil fuel companies. Based on analysis and evidence that links fossil fuel activity to women’s health, safety, and rights, the report advocates for financial institutions to divest from and cease insuring fossil fuel companies. +
The CLIMA Fund is pleased to share two briefs on grassroots movements advancing systemic and policy change as they address the root causes of the climate crisis and respond to contemporary socio-political challenges.
These two briefs capture just a few examples of how grassroots groups 1) change policy and 2) create systemic change. The briefs demonstrate that grassroots movements are critical for advancing climate action commensurate with the scenarios in the recent IPCC reports. The briefs provide further evidence that grassroots-led change creates results that are long-lasting, effective at cooling the planet, and integral to upholding social justice. +
Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all +
These guidelines serve as a policy framework and a practical tool to help countries manage the transition to low-carbon economies. +
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We see the pressing need to address the root causes of environmental and climate injustices by confronting four centuries of colonial-imperialism, ongoing patriarchal and white supremacist oppression, and today’s extreme neoliberal, globalized, industrial capitalist expansion. Hoodwinked demonstrates how climate change false solutions perpetuate, expand and reinforce these structures. +
Hydrogen is not a silver bullet against the climate crisis. There is a sensible use for “green” hydrogen. But European industry's plans to fuel itself through massive imports from the Global South threaten to perpetuate centuries-old patterns of global injustice.
Until these imports become a reality at all, a lot of climate-damaging fossil hydrogen is to be burned. +
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This paper highlights the key findings from a mapping and roundtable dialogues, relevant policies, mechanisms, tools and funding channels of five government donors, all frontrunners in their support of gender equality and environmental and climate action in development cooperation. It also offers some recommendations and resources for action by government donors to more effectively integrate and further strengthen gender equality in environmental and climate policies. +
This book seeks to go beyond simple public policy aspirations in order to reconsider the impacts of climate change on women on the basis of their actions of resistance, their daily practices, the links between these practices and the need to re-think their contributions from the centres of power. +
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This paper seeks to explain the just transitions concept, including its origins and relevance. We offer a preliminary framework to describe the range of definitions among stakeholders and their underlying perspectives. We also identify several areas that would benefit from additional research, including more robust case studies and better tools and planning strategies for policymakers. +
This report provides a comparison of just transitions in five countries: the US, Canada, Germany, Norway and Peru +
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The report explores the possibility of migrating as a way of coping with climate change impacts, but also examines some of the risks involved in such strategies. Rather than viewing migration as a last resort some researchers have proposed the idea that migration could become a new way for people to diversify agricultural livelihoods in response to climate change impacts. Such migration strategies give an individual the chance to diversify their income, allows the spreading of risk for the household, and the sending of money back to family members, which would, in turn, increase resilience back home. However, migration is not a silver bullet when it comes to adaptation. Migrating to pursue alternative livelihoods does not always lead to a more stable life. There are cases where people who move – especially into poor housing in cities – could be exposed to new and different risks. +
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Neo-Colonial Economies And Ecologies, Smallholder Farmers And Multiple Shocks: The Case Of Cyclones Idai And Kenneth In Mozambique And Zimbabwe +
This paper critically examines the political and economic drivers of ecological degradation under the guise of development loans and aid, through rapacious natural resource extraction and social and cultural displacement – the backdrop to tropical cyclones Idai and Kenneth, which made history by respectively striking central and northern Mozambique only six weeks apart from each other in 2019 and also severely impacted parts of Zimbabwe and Malawi +
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Communities are facing the overlapping crises of the pandemic, the economic crisis, climate chaos, and chronic racial injustice.
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild our economy in a way that lifts up all people. Congress’s next big infrastructure bill could invest billions into neighborhoods across the country, ushering the transformative recovery our communities need to thrive. +
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https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vF-zD8RuSyKPOUF1eHSVLg +
This document is Friends of the Earth International’s manifesto for a just transformation of our energy system – based on 10 demands. It is the culmination of years of dialogue, research and movement building, across every continent, with our member groups and allies. It represents our renewed commitment to building the system that peoples and the planet need. It is a testament to a world which is not only possible, but which is ready to come to fruition. We are ready for a world based on justice and sustainability. +
Promises of a ‘Green New Deal’ have captured the imagination of climate activists, scholars and policymakers across Europe and North America. Unless grounded in principles of global justice, the promise of green jobs and infrastructure in the Global North could simply mean a continuation of colonial patterns of inequality and exploitation around the world. What would it mean for the Green New Deal to be globally fair?
Harpreet Kaur Paul and Dalia Gebrial bring together climate justice insights experts from around the world, to explore the key themes that will define the future of any equitable and just global green new deal +
This book contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. It offers critical essays on mainstream solutions that ‘greenwash’ development, and presents radically different worldviews and practices from around the world that point to an ecologically wise and socially just world. +
Efforts to address the climate emergency and limit global warming require fundamental and rapid change in our energy and food systems. When creating the shift towards a climate-safe future, just transitions must be shaped through inclusive processes and comprehensive planning and policy frameworks that address the needs of workers, farmers, women and communities.
ActionAid has developed a set of Principles for Just Transitions in Extractives and Agriculture, to help shape fair climate futures in our energy and food systems. +
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Racism and Climate (In)Justice - How Racism and Colonialism Shape the Climate Industry and Climate Action +
How have racism and colonialism contributed to creating the climate crisis; how have they shaped the response to it; and why is the crisis hitting Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPoC) the hardest? The framing paper addresses these questions through a broad framing of the complex historical and empirical realities that show that colonialism and racism have played an integral part in shaping, and continue to shape, climate change and climate policy to this day. +
Earth in Common proposes a new term: ‘restorative climate justice’. The concept it describes brings together elements of restorative justice, climate justice, agroecology and food sovereignty. While it is arguably already implicit in many effective projects, it has not, to our knowledge, ever been made explicit. We believe the concept could contribute to the field of international aid and development, boosting the fight against climate change, enhancing climate resilience and, not least, greatly increasing the status and wellbeing of indigenous peoples. +
Restoring Landscapes In India For Climate And Communities: Key Findings From Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi District +
Restoring landscapes can bring economic, environmental, and social prosperity to people and the planet. In the Sidhi District of India’s Madhya Pradesh state, the opportunity is massive. By adapting the popular Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) to measure ecosystem services, livelihood benefits, land tenure, gender, and social inclusion and by mapping the social landscape, we uncovered that diverse potential. +
