Task

Climate justice means recognizing that climate change has negative effects on most people in the world, but impacts the poor and vulnerable the most – those who have done the least to contribute to the problem. Climate justice says that those wealthy countries – and the wealthier among them – who have benefitted the most from using fossil fuels, must do more of the heavy lifting to reduce their  carbon emissions. As well, actions to address climate change and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions must be implemented in a way that is fair and just.

Climate Injustice also refers to the apparent reluctance of governments of industrialised countries to take action on climate change, despite the scientific knowledge of its causes and impacts since 1992.

Naomi Klein writes toward the end of her book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, we are not simply talking about recycling or conservation; confronting the climate crisis means joining a “battle of worldviews, a process of rebuilding and reinventing the very idea of the collective, the communal, the commons, the civil, and the civic after so many decades of attack and neglect.”

Watch 

• Introduction to Climate Justice https://youtu.be/5PQKYt6H4Fw
• Keep It In The Ground: Indigenous People Demand Climate Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twD703Pp850

Read

• Introduction to Gender & Climate Change
• "Climate Change" United Nations Indigenous Peoples, Department of Economics and Social Affairs

Examples of Climate Justice Advocates

Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzeekxtyFOY

Autumn Peltier, 13-year-old from Manitoulin Island, tells leaders world must stop polluting water: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/autumn-peltier-un-water-activist-united-nations-1.4584871

• An Interview with Autumn Peltier, a 14 year old Anishinaabe water advocate who has addressed the United Nations on water issues. 

1. REMEMBER from Bilateral Meeting: BLOG or Venn Diagram - Post HERE

• In groups or alone, either write up OR use this Venn Diagram template to illustrate a summary of the bi-lateral experience
  • What did you learn from the other students?
  • How were their case studies similar and different to yours?
  • How were there challenges similar and different to yours?

• Post your blog/diagram HERE
• Read and comment on at least 3 other posts 

2. Find a Youth Climate Justice Advocate in Your Country 

Create a video diary or Write a Blog  - Post Blog HERE

• Introduce the youth and what they are doing - link to a video or news article

• Then think about and answer these questions:
  • Which countries have benefitted the most from using fossil fuels? Are these the same countries that will be most impacted by climate change?
  • What are some examples of places and populations that are the most vulnerable to climate change?
  • Do Global North countries have a moral obligation to reduce our emissions? Why? What does this look like in action?
  • What are some systemic changes your country could make that would help us move towards climate justice? 
    • What systems or policies in your school or community could we try to change in order to move towards climate justice?

• Review 3 other Blog posts. Comment on the Climate Justice Advocate they have identified.

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