Where to begin with Climate Justice?

Click here to access article by Joanna Cabello from degrowth (Germany).

Climate justice is a relatively new term. Being a key concept in the Degrowth in Action – Climate Justice Summer School 2015, it is important here to expand upon the different understandings of, and some of the debates surrounding, the term ‘climate justice’ – though of course no single understanding is right or wrong, and no group can lay claim to a particular concept. 

.... For many of the groups and networks that participated in CJA [‘Climate Justice Action’] the broad position underlying the use of the term is the politicisation of climate change – understanding that it results from our current and historical social relations, and that in order to address it we need fundamental changes to our economic and political systems.