Climate Justice
From the class
to the world
and back
What to expect
Introductions
Who/What are you grateful for?
Active
hope
‘Gratitude is a radical act’
The state of the climate crisis
Where we are now
Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020.
Human-caused climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. This has led to widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages to nature and people (high confidence). Vulnerable communities who have historically contributed the least to current climate change are disproportionately affected (high confidence)
Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health (very high confidence).
There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all (very high confidence).
‘The threat of climate change may not feel as urgent as a terrorist or an autocrat. But it is more fundamental. It is systemic, pervasive and accelerating towards us’ - UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy (Sep, 2024)
Root causes
Reflection Time
Writing exercise:
How has this information made you feel?
Breathing Through
What is Climate Justice?
Prioritising equity, climate justice, social justice, inclusion and just transition processes can enable adaptation and ambitious mitigation actions and climate resilient development.
“Intersectionality, the term coined by black feminist legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw, is the only way forward. We cannot play “my crisis is more urgent than your crisis” – war trumps climate; climate trumps class; class trumps gender; gender trumps race. That trumping game, my friends, is how you end up with a Trump.”
Naomi Klein
Global Solutions
The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years (high confidence)
How to teach Climate Justice for Hope and Action
Linking to the curriculum
Key challenges,
Possible solutions
Discuss!
Good examples of educational resources
Encouraging
Action on Climate
Hand towards the World
Key principles for collective action
Good examples of collective climate action in schools
What have we learned?
What next?
How could we improve the webinar?