LATINO CLIMATE JUSTICE FRAMEWORK 2025-2028

The Latino Climate Justice Framework 2025-2028 outlines systemic inequities facing Latino/a/e communities, including higher energy burdens, exposure to fossil fuel pollution, and lack of access to nature. It proposes specific policy objectives across energy justice, climate resilience, worker protections, and migration rights, while warning against 'false solutions' like carbon capture and storage. The framework emphasizes the need for equitable clean energy transitions, the protection of climate-displaced persons, and the liberation of Puerto Rico from restrictive energy and economic policies.

• Latino/a/e communities face significant energy injustice, with median household energy costs in major cities being 24% higher than those of white households. Additionally, nearly 52% of Hispanic- or Latino-led households in the U.S. are renters, which creates a barrier to accessing solar energy and energy efficiency improvements.
• Transportation and industrial infrastructure disproportionately impact Latino/a/e health; these communities are exposed to 23% higher levels of particulate matter (PM) 2.5 from vehicles than the U.S. average. Furthermore, 1.6 million Hispanics are among the 17.3 million people living within a half-mile of oil and gas wells.
• The document identifies 'false solutions' that impede climate action, specifically criticizing carbon capture and storage (CCS) as an unproven and risky technology often used for 'enhanced oil recovery'. It also warns that fossil-fuel based hydrogen production can increase carbon emissions and stress water resources.
• Climate disinformation is prevalent among Spanish-speaking Latino/a/es, with 57% believing that transitioning from oil and gas will eliminate millions of jobs and 50% believing climate change is a naturally occurring cycle rather than human-caused.
• Latino/a/e workers are disproportionately represented in high-risk, weather-exposed industries. 83% of U.S. farmworkers are Latino/a/e, and 45% of them experienced heat-related illness in 2022.
• There is a significant gap in access to nature; U.S. Latino/a/es are 67% more likely than white residents to live in nature-deprived areas. Only 25 of over 400 National Park units specifically preserve Latino/a/e histories.
• Climate-driven migration is a critical issue, with Central America identified as one of the most climate-vulnerable places in the world. The document advocates for the Climate Displaced Persons Act to create a new migration pathway for those forcibly displaced by climate change.
• Puerto Rico faces extreme energy insecurity and high costs due to a reliance on imported fossil fuels, with 94% of its electricity coming from fossil-fuel power plants in 2024. The island's residents experience significantly longer power outages, averaging 24 hours and 8 minutes without electricity per year compared to the U.S. average of 2.7.
• A GreenLatinos analysis of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) across five states found that while investments are promising, the funding is inadequate to meet the pace of action required to combat the climate crisis and address the backlog in drinking water and pollution remediation.

APA

GreenLatinos (2025). LATINO CLIMATE JUSTICE FRAMEWORK 2025-2028. https://lcjf.greenlatinos.org/reports/LCJF-Framework-2025-2028_WEB-1.pdf

Chicago

GreenLatinos. LATINO CLIMATE JUSTICE FRAMEWORK 2025-2028. 2025. https://lcjf.greenlatinos.org/reports/LCJF-Framework-2025-2028_WEB-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenlatinos2025latino, author = {{GreenLatinos}}, title = {{LATINO CLIMATE JUSTICE FRAMEWORK 2025-2028}}, institution = {GreenLatinos}, year = {2025}, url = {https://lcjf.greenlatinos.org/reports/LCJF-Framework-2025-2028_WEB-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }