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The world has witnessed millions of youth demonstrating across the globe about the need for climate action.
Climate engagement still tends to increase with education and income.
A research team of youth climate activists and academics is examining how environmentalists learn about solidarity and justice.
The winter of 2018-19 claimed 200 reindeer in Svalbard, Norway, according to a recent census.
I have studied radical environmental groups for years – they will be key to keeping government honest.
In the face of climate change, the poorest are suffering from the excess emissions of CO₂ linked to the lifestyle of the richest. It is time to act, in the name of climate and social justice.
It’s natural to feel powerless against climate breakdown. But transforming pain into action can be infectious, and might just tip the balance towards a healthy climate.
The Green Climate Fund mostly goes to middle-income countries that offer a return on investment.
Climate change is an emergency which will hurt the planet’s most vulnerable people – the only irrational response is cool detachment.
From New Orleans to Haiti to Mozambique, global inequality plays a major role in making disasters deadly.
The coal, oil and natural gas industries are also connected with human rights violations, public health disasters and environmental devastation.
The latest UN climate talks were ultimately hindered by their focus on nation-states, obscuring who is actually responsible for emissions.
The movement to kickstart a radical transformation of our society has begun. For the sake of our children – and their children – it must succeed.
Nauru is best known as a site of Australian offshore asylum detention. But everyone on the island - not just refugees - is struggling with the issue of environmental change that threatens their lives and homes.
Global warming will be most noticeable where the weather doesn’t normally vary much, such as the tropics. But these places are also home to many of the world’s poorest and least culpable nations.
After a long run of devastating typhoons, one country is holding the world’s biggest corporations to account on climate change.
Five years after Superstorm Sandy, we see how disadvantaged social groups suffered more from the storm before and after – much as we’re seeing in Hurricanes Harvey and Maria.
If resilience efforts don’t consider justice issues, they will end up making those who are the most in need the least resilient.
A Native American scholar explains why so little has changed despite the apparent victory of protesters opposing the North Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
Top contributors
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Director of the Mandela Institute, Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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Legal Researcher, PhD Candidate and Lead of the African Climate Law Programme, Mandela Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Global Environmental Law Centre; Associate Professor Department of Public Law & Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Justice, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Bradford
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Associate Researcher in Climate Change and Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick
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Professor of Global Environmental Politics, College of the Atlantic