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Climate justice movement refers to grassroots collective action that prioritizes leadership from those impacted first and worst by climate crisis, advances accountability toward those impacted first and worst by climate crisis, and addresses the root causes of climate crisis (Dayaneni 2009:83).
Climate justice is an evolving, fluid framework and vision that recognizes the responsibility of hegemonic global structures and cultures, including heteropatriarchy, colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism, for the impacts of climate change on the poor and vulnerable, and aims to address inequality and the root causes of climate change (Meikle et al. 2016).
Introduction
Moving beyond the largely technical and reform-oriented focus of mainstream climate action, the climate justice movement calls for revolutionary social change. It emphasizes the root causes of climate change and directs action to the drivers of social, environmental, and economic injustice that jointly...
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Gray, S., Grosse, C., Mark, B., Morrell, E. (2021). Climate Justice Movements and Sustainable Development Goals. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Climate Action. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_136-1
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