Search Results - "climate justice"

Abstract Although climate change is increasingly covered in the media, the narratives surrounding socio-environmental issues have never been neutral or unified. This study examines how the largest Brazilian media conglomerates, Globo and UOL, covered the popular protests during the 26th and 27th edi...

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Indigenous peoples have acted across a wide range of fields to address climate change. In all contexts they encounter the barriers of established colonial relations of land and state sovereignty. Indigenous-centred agendas are defined in articulation, with and against these dominant regimes. In this...

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It is well known that climate change exacerbates inequalities and vice versa. What is less known is that the most disadvantaged groups are also at risk of becoming non-negligible producers of emissions that cause climate change. Examples include the difficulties disadvantaged micro-entrepreneurs fac...

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This paper explores the relationship between social justice, the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) nexus, and the centrality of water to both, all within the context of climate change. Our changing climate has placed considerable pressure on the global hydrological system, altering traditional...

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<p>This review explores the intricate interactions between climate justice, gender inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on rural women in Egypt. By integrating findings from various literature, it offers an in-depth examination of how these intersecting issues intensi...

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Climate justice was originally conceived as a distributive question due to differentiated responsibilities of countries in worldwide greenhouse gases emissions. Firstly, it concerns their capacities to develop mitigation policies. Secondly, it requires to back the poorest and most vulnerable countri...

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Urban heat stress is becoming increasingly urgent, yet it remains understudied within the broader intersection of climate change and spatial justice. While urban climate scholarship has largely focused on climatic impacts such as flooding, rising sea levels, and prolonged droughts, the socio-spatial...

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Climate change is identified as a major threat to biodiversity, particularly wetlands, which cause or exacerbate injustice in societies. Overcoming injustice can support sustainable governance, including respecting and securing vulnerable groups’ rights and enhancing the ecological integrity of biol...

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The sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended on December 11, 2010, on a positive note, as the Cancún Accords were adopted. In order to evaluate the results of COP16, this paper will take on the double task of examining the main is...

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Brazilian socio-environmental coalitions and movements that fight for climate environmental education have invested in educommunicative practices and perspectives against the instrumentalization and over-exploitation of human and nonhuman lives over the years. They seem to have learned that, to post...

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<i>Background</i>: Airfreight transport refers to the shipment of goods by air from one location to another and is often perceived as a contributor to global carbon emissions. The environmental impacts associated with airfreight are of notable and genuine concern. Such concerns have ofte...

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Youth make up a fifth of the world’s population and will suffer the consequences of the climate catastrophe to differing extents depending on their social and geographical locations. The climate crisis is thus a matter of both intergenerational and racial/imperial injustice. Intersectional and inter...

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This paper questions two fundamental political foundations for climate action: that there is but one common humanity and that global warming is the most critical and immediate threat to the survival of humankind. It further argues that the philosophical foundations of climate action lack depth and...

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One branch of the responsible innovation literature involves the direction of innovation: if the public or decision-makers can or should direct innovation, how should innovation be directed? This paper explicates a case study where directionality – the plurality of plausible values for innovation –...

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The increasing variety of legal relationships in the climate sphere, as well as the specific nature of legal regulation in this area, inevitably leads to disputes between the parties involved - climate disputes. The significant variability of climate disputes across different jurisdictions, on the o...

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Objective We explore and analyze the intersection between rising temperatures, maternal health challenges, and systemic vulnerabilities, with a focus on how the growing climate crisis disproportionately affects pregnant women in Sindh Province of Pakistan.Background Climate change presents substanti...

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Genesis 2:4–17 offers a foundational account of human–earth relations within the Eden narrative, portraying Mother Earth as a divinely crafted habitat and humanity as both nurtured by and responsible for the land. This article presents an exegetical reading of the passage, engaging historical–critic...

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The Russian war against Ukraine, having brought monumental social, economic, and environmental devastation, serves as acompelling case study demonstrating the broader implications of climate crises, underscoring the complex interplay between fossil fuel dependency and geopolitical tensions, and illu...

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<h1><span>Climate change effects such as rising temperatures, and increased frequency of extreme weather events such as droughts and floods are significantly impacting agriculture in Ghana. These effects threaten crop yields, particularly for rural smallholder farmers who rely on rain-fe...

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The contribution presented in December 2015 at the Climate Conference (COP 21) in Paris by Bolivian officials enjoyed a certain media coverage. It proposed lines of action, allowing both to achieve a more "just" climate governance and to build a new "civilization horizon" breakin...

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