Climate Justice

Environmental justice organisations and actors can and have advanced collective liberation using mutual aid as a critical orientation rooted in community based care and empowerment.

Mutual aid networks of care offer models of local level adaptive strategies in the face of mass disabling events such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

Here, we consider how one prominent model of the anthropogenic forces driving environmental impacts, the STIRPAT model, incorporates considerations of inequalities. Our assessment includes exploring STIRPAT’s limitations and ways in which it can be improved.

Historical exposure to logics of extractive colonialism accounts for up to 11% of variation in emissions-development relationships across nations, and moderates the association that emissions per capita, emissions per dollar, and total emissions have with development.

Historical redlining is associated with present day pollution, and intensifies the relationship between development and pollution as well.

Can we find a way to lift nearly half of the world out of poverty and still reduce fossil fuel use? There can be no sustainable development, and likely no energy transition, if poverty is not addressed too.

Identifies a need for direct intervention in historically entrenched forms of inequality.

What social changes yield a society that is more equitable, sustainable, resilient, and robust?

An exploration of the links between the development of the racial and fossil capitalism.

Over time, at the country level, increasing economic inequality reduces renewable energy consumption, with no evidence of reciprocal feedback.