Climate Justice
V4CE Environmental Strategy
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What does climate resilience and resistance more broadly look like? How do we build power within our own communities? What can we provide directly to ourselves and others in a healthier, sustainable way?
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The climate crisis demands us to have dreams and hopes beyond the present. To extend our empathy towards others and ourselves, and to nurture new and existing ways of living together. It challenges us to question and examine more closely how we live, work, and forge social and cultural identities, and in turn how we relate to the living world around us. The climate agenda, with justice in mind, is about politicising and making visible the human and environmental harms that are too often obscured from us.
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Our Environmental Strategy opens up a new chapter of work at V4CE to understand and address the climate crisis through the critical lens of anti-racism, and to ultimately reimagine a more collective response that is representative of every community's needs.
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As part of our Where Climate Meets Race programme, we will be holding bi-monthly climate cafes. This is an opportunity to make connections, share ideas, and understand how you can find your place within the wider climate movement.
In our previous workshop on Climate Justice is Racial Justice, we explored the ways in which the climate crisis has long come at the expense, sacrifice, and harm of racialised and marginalised communities everywhere. We will be taking this discussion forward on what it means to decolonise climate and reimagine an equitable and sustainable future. We hope to see you there.
Recommended Reading
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Climate change glossary: the terms you need to understand, explained
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Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World
A vision for climate justice: a report from the APPG on Race and
How will the climate and nature crises impact people from Black, Asian
and Ethnic Minority Communities?
How will the climate and nature crisis impact older people and Disabled people?
No police, no pollution: A vision for Black liberation in the UK
How sewage got into UK rivers and seas, and how to fix it
Improving public access to nature
Share the Land: Modelling an agroecological land-sharing approach to UK land use
How can the Great Wealth Transfer enable people and planet to flourish?
Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance
Acknowledgments
The content above has been written and researched by Jennifer Wat, with edits and design contributions from Ella Armitage, Jessica Webber and Ditipriya Acharya.