Environment 101
Typical weather over decades
What is climate?
An area that has limited access to food that is affordable, fresh, and nutritious
What is a food desert?
The percentage of workers that are exposed to climate-related health hazards
What is 70%?
The goal that the benefits of climate action will be shared equitably among all people, including the maintenance of secure, high-quality, union jobs for workers
What is just transition?
The historical event that marked the initial significant uptick in carbon emissions
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The most reliable indicator of proximity to pollution in the United States
What is race?
The number of flights that were canceled due to the polar vortex in 2019
What is 2,000?
The event for which CWA partnered with over 1,000 organizations in support of climate justice
What is the People's Climate March?
The number of weather and climate disasters the U.S. has faced since 1980
What is 391?
This group of people has the highest death rate from asthma
Who are Black women?
The average individual work time lost to extreme heat per year
What is two weeks (88 hours)?
The CWA Convention that passed the resolution named "Securing Our Labor Rights in the Climate Transition"
What is the 78th CWA Convention?
How long ago the Earth was as hot as it is now
What is over 125,000 years ago?
The percentage of land that Indigenous nations have lost across the United States
What is 99%?
The year we are projected to lose 80 million full time jobs around the world because of climate change
When is 2030?
The Federal initiative whose goal is for 40% of the overall benefits of certain Federal climate, clean energy, affordable and sustainable housing, and other investments to flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution
What is the Justice40 Initative?