Climate change hits women harder
What is climate justice?
Climate justice is a term that acknowledges those most responsible for burning fossil fuels are least hurt by their effects on the climate. It covers differences in age, wealth and race, as well as gender, sexuality and disability. It also includes policies protecting workers reliant on fossil fuel industries from the switch to clean energy. We re all in this climate crisis, but we re not all in it together, wrote Georgetown University philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò in DW newsletter Undercurrent in March.
Each year, rich countries like the US emit about 10 times as much carbon dioxide as poorer ones like India, and about 20 times as much as a country like Nigeria. The imbalance of emissions is skewed even further because industrialized countries have been polluting the planet for longer.
Climate collapse: The people who fear society is doomed
No scientific study has found that climate change is likely to wipe out civilization, but for many even the possibility is terrifying enough to upend their lives.
Rich countries like the US and Australia have seen apocalyptic images of climate change after smoke from wildfires darkened skies above big cities
When Typhoon Vamco battered the Philippines in November last year, unleashing a month s worth of rain on the capital Manila in less than 24 hours, Mitzi Jonelle Tan was on her way home from work. Her mother, scared for her safety as roads flooded, warned her not to come back.