Health
This type of pollution increases the risk of respiratory illnesses and cardiovascular health through the spread of particulate matter.
What is air pollution?
This mechanism within the Paris Agreement focuses on assisting developing countries in adapting to the adverse effects of climate change.
What is climate adaptation?
Only 21 percent of new or updated plans submitted by 95 countries as their Paris Agreement goals mentioned this topic, yet none presented it as a core climate strategy
What is climate change education?
These protests in 1982 in North Carolina sparked the national Environmental Justice Movement.
What are the Warren County protests?
These generations of individuals are supportive of policies including banning fossil fuels and gasoline-powered cars.
What are Gen Z and Millenials
This group experiences higher exposure to environmental risks and greater health impacts due to pre-existing socioeconomic disadvantages.
What are people of color/marginalized communities?
This 2015 international agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, with significant implications for developing regions like Africa.
What is the Paris Agreement?
A 2020 study found that if 16 percent of secondary school students worldwide in middle- and high-income countries studied this, it could cut nearly 19 gigatons of CO₂ emissions by 2050.
What is climate change?
This “Big 10” environmental group was accused of racial bias in policy development, hiring, and their board demographics in 1990.
What is the NRDC?
This type of activism involves persistent advocacy and lobbying by young people, jeopardized by climate risk to gain greater legitimacy, involvement, and leadership in climate action.
What is stakeholder activism?
This form of discrimination pushes systemic inequities embedded in social, economic, and political systems causing marginalized communities to face disproportionate environmental harm.
What is structural racism?
To reduce its vulnerability to climate change, Africa has focused on expanding these renewable energy sources, including solar and wind power.
What are clean energy solutions?
In 2020, this state became the first to mandate climate change education across all subjects starting in kindergarten, supported by a $5 million grant fund.
What is New Jersey?
In this 1987 report, racism was the single-most important factor in determining where toxic waste facilities were sited in the U.S.
What is Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States?
This youth activist group realizes the urgency of the climate crisis and comes together across different races and classes to advocate for the Green New Deal
What is the Sunrise Movement
This common health outcome of air pollution affects African American children at nearly double the rate of white children.
What is asthma?
Despite contributing less than 4% to global greenhouse gas emissions, this continent faces some of the worst impacts of climate change, including droughts and floods.
What is Africa?
A 2021 report revealed that 78 percent of registered voters, spanning various political groups, support this initiative, though its implementation quality varies between blue and red states.
What is support for climate education?
In 1992, President Bill Clinton appointed these two leaders to the natural resources transition team, where they helped elevate the role of environmental justice in his environmental policy.
Who are Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Robert Bullard?
If young people can learn the skills necessary to succeed in a green economy, they can play a key role in the green transition and generate 8.4 million jobs by 2030. These skills include knowledge of technology, proficiency, and skills that facilitate the efficient application of green technologies and procedures in work environments.
What are green skills
Communities with higher exposure to environmental hazards lack this, worsening health disparities.
What is adequate access to healthcare resources?
African countries have emphasized this principle, which calls for wealthier nations to take greater responsibility for addressing climate change due to their historical emissions.
What is climate justice?
A 2016 study found that 30 percent of teachers attributed recent climate changes to natural causes, with some not stressing human causes at all. This reflects how this factor influences teachers' understanding of climate science.
What is political ideology?
With more federal policies incorporating environmental justice, this initiative directs 40% of federal investments in climate and clean energy toward disadvantaged communities.
What is the Justice40 Initiative?
This essential element in the fight against climate change addresses climate risk which helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, forecast catastrophe events, and create climate-resilient farming practices.
What are climate technologies