Justice | Planetary Health Glossary

Definition

Climate justice recognises that people who have historically contributed the least to climate change and poor and marginalised groups will face the worst consequences of climate change. Climate justice seeks to redress this unfairness through advocacy, fair decision- and policy-making, and just climate action (including who bears the costs). Climate justice is a type of environmental justice, which refers to when poor and marginalised groups disproportionately experience environmental harms (such as waste or resource extraction) or unfair policies such as land appropriation (‘land grabbing’).

burden-sharing; climate change litigation; climate change reparations; climate debts; climate equity; climate injustices; climate justice movement; climate litigation ; climate negotiations; climate reparations; collective rights; Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR); distributive justice; economic injustice; environmental discrimination; environmental inequality; environmental injustice; environmental justice; environmental racism; equality; fairness; gender injustice; human rights; inclusion; inequalities; intergenerational equity; intergenerational injustice; intergenerational justice; intersectionality; people-centred approach; procedural justice; representation; rights-based approach; seat at the table; social disparities; social injustice; social justice; triple injustice; unequal; vulnerability

Drafted by

Chris Graham

Reviewed by

TBC