{"id":4748,"date":"2023-07-27T14:11:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/?page_id=4748"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:52:09","slug":"climate-justice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/climate-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate justice<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMillions are already experiencing the effects of climate change. People living in fragile settings are affected the most and yet they have contributed the least to the climate crisis. There's no time to waste. We need climate justice. Now.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What is climate justice?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Climate justice is about ensuring fairness and equity when tackling climate change and its impacts. Climate action\u2014such as mitigation efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and financing climate adaptation measures\u2014should be the main responsibility of those who contribute the most to global warming: the wealthy, industrialised economies. Climate change impacts people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings the most, yet they have contributed the least to global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate justice isn’t just about moral responsibility; as the UN Human Rights Council declared in October 2021, supporting those affected the most is mandatory under international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The principles of climate justice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Based on the principles of equity, human rights, and responsibility, climate justice links environmental, economic, social, and intergenerational justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental justice<\/strong><\/strong>
Although climate change concerns everyone, its causes and effects are unevenly spread. The people contributing the least to climate change bear the brunt of the world’s most polluting economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic justice<\/strong>
A fair distribution of the costs and benefits of transitioning to a low-carbon economy is needed. The costs of climate action should not fall disproportionately on those least able to afford them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social justice<\/strong>
Climate policies and programmes have to accommodate the diverse needs and perspectives of all communities, especially those that have been historically marginalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intergenerational justice<\/strong>
Current generations are responsible for ensuring future generations inherit a sustainable, liveable planet.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\t

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Cordaid’s approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cordaid and its partners have worked in fragile and conflict-affected settings for over 120 years. In the past decade, our programmes have started tackling the impacts of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many regions, the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation frustrate efforts to consolidate peace and stability. Floods, deforestation, reduced agricultural land, and extreme weather events displace communities, destroy livelihoods, and feed intercommunal tensions in ways that fuel, deepen, or prolong conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate and conflict hazards are thus increasingly interrelated, as shown by the Climate-Conflict Vulnerability Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past years, the connection between the climate crisis, conflict, and fragility has become a determining factor in Cordaid’s work. In this video, a relief worker from our Ethiopian office discusses the challenges the people of Borena are facing with climate change and how this relates to conflict and displacement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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