Climate Justice: Equity and Justice Informing a New Climate Agreement

The paper examines climate change as an issue of injustice, specifically how environmental challenges interact with socio-ecological and economic systems to undermine the rights of poor, marginalized, and vulnerable populations. It analyzes the historical treatment of equity in climate negotiations to identify key issues for a new agreement and explores how climate justice narratives can mobilize domestic demand for climate action.

• Climate change is framed as an issue of injustice because its environmental challenges are linked to socio-ecological and economic systems that disproportionately undermine the rights of the poor, marginalized, and vulnerable.
• The document analyzes the historical application of equity in climate negotiations to determine which specific equity issues must be addressed in the design of the 2015 climate agreement.
• Climate justice narratives are identified as a tool for mobilizing domestic constituencies to demand climate action, drawing on methods used by other social movements.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Climate Justice: Equity and Justice Informing a New Climate Agreement. https://www.wri.org/research/climate-justice

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Climate Justice: Equity and Justice Informing a New Climate Agreement. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/climate-justice.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendclimate, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Climate Justice: Equity and Justice Informing a New Climate Agreement}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/climate-justice}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }