Climate Justice Resources

• A Just Climate Platform, vision for an inclusive and just national climate agenda from A Just Climate 

• Business Fights Poverty: Climate Justice, an international program for business learning and connection.

• On Injustice. Mustafa Santiago Ali talks with Naomi Hollard of Sunrise Movement about the power of cross-class and multiracial movements and the mandate for environmental justice.

• “Movements for Climate Justice,” by Brian Tokar, 2013, Handbook of the Climate Movement, M. Doetz, ed..

• “Declaration on Climate Justice” by the Mary Robinson Foundation

• NAACP: Environmental & Climate Justice Resources 

• Gender, race, and perceived risk: The 'white male' effect by Melissa L. Finucane, Paul Slovic, Decision Research , 1201 Oak Street, Eugene, OR, 97401, USA,C.K. Mertz,James Flynn &Theresa A. Satterfield

Racial Justice

• “I’m a black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet,” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Washington Post, June 3, 2020

• Why Every Environmentalist Should be Anti-Racist, by Leah Thomas, Vogue, June 8, 2020

• “How to Make Sure Racial Justice is Part of Climate Activism” by Natasha Pinon 

• “The blackest city in the US is facing an environmental justice nightmare,” The Guardian, January 9, 2020

• Environmental Racism is the New Jim Crow 

• “Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat” by Mary Annaïse Heglar (people of color know about building movements, about courage, about survival)

• Melissa Bradley:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgAwr5CUwWw

• See additional articles from a B Lab employee “brown bag” on environmental racism (here)

• Seja Antirracista: https://www.sejaantirracista.org/

Indigenous Voices

• UN statement on the impact of climate change on Indigenous Peoples 

• Indigenous Principles for a Just Transition 

• The Amazon is on fire - Indigenous Rights could help put it out . Gives a good view of the intersection of indigenous rights and climate crisis, from Canadian journalist Naomi Klein

• COP25 Recap from Indigenous Climate Action group

Gender & Climate

• How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Stop Global Warming, TED talk by Katharine Wilkinson, Project Drawdown (13 mins) 

• Introduction to Gender & Climate, UNFCCC

• Overview of Linkages Between Gender & Climate Change, UNDP

• Women, girls, and non-binary leaders are demonstrating the kind of leadership our world so badly needs by Katharine Wilkinson, Project Drawdown

Youth Voices

• Greta Thunberg’s UNCOP25 remarks 

• Xiuhtezcatl Martinez on the Global Climate Strike 

• Video interview of Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg, with Xiye Bastida and other youth (starts around 22:00 with Greta/Naomi at 42:00) 

• Extinction Rebellion

• Sunrise Movement

Climate Adaptation & Resilience

• GAO-20-127, Climate Resilience: A Strategic Investment Approach for High-Priority Projects Could Help Target Federal Resources - (start with  the highlights page if you are limited for time) Even though the US Government is not a Certified B Corp priority, this identifies gaps in climate resilience for a major institution and benefits to filling them.

• Fourth National Climate Assessment You can do word searches to find  direct connections between climate resilience and inequality, poverty, environment, communities and jobs.    

• Linking Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Review with Evidence from the Land-Use Sectors (2018) This connects knowledge about greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation using one sector as an example.