Introduction to Climate Change and Social Justice

Explore what climate change is and how rising greenhouse gases affect global systems. Apply systems thinking to link economy, agriculture, and vulnerable communities to root causes and long-term solutions.

Explore how the United Nations IPCC vulnerability framework uses exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to show how climate change affects people differently due to resources, knowledge, power, and privilege.

Apply an intersectional lens to understand how power, privilege, and identities shape climate vulnerability. Advocate participatory decision making and equitable distribution of climate burdens to achieve justice.

Explore how climate change differentially impacts communities through an intersectional lens. Link exposure, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity to power, privilege, and systemic barriers in the vicious cycle of inequalities.

Explore adaptation and mitigation strategies, how community organizing and protests advance climate action, and how inclusive policy making spans environment, social equity, and economic impact.

Explore international climate action policies, including the UN framework convention, the Paris Agreement, and the Sustainable Development Goals, and how social justice shapes their effectiveness and funding at COP29.

Explore how ecofeminism, anti-capitalist debates, and the treadmill and ecological modernization theories inform climate action and just transitions toward a decolonial, inclusive future.

Educate yourself and support sustainable businesses to become climate conscious, applying a climate justice lens that blends individual actions with systemic change for a net-zero future.