DECLARATION ON CLIMATE JUSTICE

The Declaration on Climate Justice argues that the global response to climate change must prioritize human rights, equity, and the needs of the most vulnerable. It outlines six priority pathways: empowering affected communities, transitioning to a low-carbon economy, reforming investment models, ensuring government accountability, and strengthening the rule of law. The declaration emphasizes that developed countries must lead in reducing emissions and providing climate finance to ensure a just transition and a sustainable global society.

• The declaration identifies six priority pathways to achieve climate justice: giving voice to affected communities in decision-making, transforming the economic system to low-carbon production and consumption, creating a new investment model that prioritizes sustainable alternatives over high-carbon assets, ensuring government accountability for emissions and climate finance, and evolving legal systems to ensure transparency and enforcement.
• A just transition requires specific social and technological supports, including investment in social protection, the enhancement of worker skills for redeployment in a low-carbon economy, and free worldwide access to breakthrough technologies such as new chemical energy storage schemes and efficient organic solar panels.
• The document asserts that while all countries must contribute to the solution, developed nations must take the lead, particularly in delivering on commitments to provide climate finance for the most vulnerable countries.
• The declaration calls for international leaders to treat climate change as an issue of human security, global development, and justice to facilitate a legally binding climate agreement and a post-2015 development agenda by the end of 2015.

APA

World Resources Institute (2013). DECLARATION ON CLIMATE JUSTICE. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/declaration_on_climate_justice_0_0.pdf

Chicago

World Resources Institute. DECLARATION ON CLIMATE JUSTICE. 2013. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/declaration_on_climate_justice_0_0.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{worldresourcesinstitute2013declaration, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{DECLARATION ON CLIMATE JUSTICE}}, publisher = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2013}, month = sep, url = {https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/declaration_on_climate_justice_0_0.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }