Environmental Injustice
Disproportionate impacts of climate change on lower class communities and communities of color.
What is environmental injustice?
The recently approved oil drilling project in Alaska estimated to release more than 260 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions
What is The Willow Project?
The Marshall fire, the NCAR fire, the Calwood fire, the 2013 flood
What are recent climate disasters in Colorado?
Planting trees, renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, etc.
What are climate solutions?
What are ways to adapt to wildfires?
This continent will be hit hardest by the climate crisis despite having the lowest contribution to emissions.
What is Africa?
What is the Green New Deal?
Warmer temperatures enhance evaporation which reduces surface water and dries out soil and vegetation causing this climate disaster.
Droughts or fires
This is the first piece of federal legislation to mitigate climate change.
What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
A way to effectively prepare people for extreme weather events.
What are climate disaster plans?
This group is 14 times more likely to die from climate disasters.
What are women and children?
What is less than 1 percent?
This is most costly extreme weather event, in some cases causing well over 100 billion dollars in damage. Climate change is making these more extreme and common.
What are hurricanes?
The percentage of carbon dioxide emissions reduction by 2050 in order to stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming
What is 100 percent reduction?
A shift in agriculture in order to make crops more resilient to climate disasters.
What is diversifying crops? (Or other regenerative agriculture techniques)
The number of people expected to be displaced by 2050 due to climate change
What is 1 to 3 billion?
The fossil fuel industry has spent billions of dollars on this in order to avoid the failure of their industry.
What are lobbying and misinformation campaigns?
Colorado is the 3rd highest state at risk for this climate disaster.
What are droughts?
The sector that globally has the most potential to mitigate climate change.
What is agriculture and land use?
These communities have practiced adaptation principles on their lands over generations, and when this is secured, deforestation rates are at least two times lower.
What is indigenous peoples’ land rights?
This is a discriminatory practice in which services (financial and otherwise) are withheld from potential customers who reside in neighborhoods classified as "hazardous" to investment. This practice has been worsened significantly by climate change.
What is redlining?
The amount of money spent on climate disaster clean up in the past decade
What is 1.3 trillion dollars?
This current's path is changing due to arctic amplification. Climate disasters are made more frequent as a result.
What is the jet stream?
30 schools and facilities in BVSD have implemented this climate solution.
What are solar panels?
The reintroduction of plants and animals to build back a wetland environment on the coast. This helps weaken the effects of hurricanes because wetlands work to naturally reduce waves and storm surge.
What is coastal wetland restoration?