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?
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.
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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Read Our Environmental Blog Posts
Explore our most impactful environmental insights - covering the policies, stories, and solutions that drive our advocacy work. From climate cafés to community programmes, these pieces highlight the ties between climate justice and racial justice and the future we're working to build.
We were lucky enough to talk to the award-winning climate activist, writer, and speaker Dominique Palmer. In the interview, Dominique discussed what she wished she'd known about climate activism, her experience attending summits, and what needs to change within and beyond the movement to create a cultural shift.
Once near extinction, beavers are making a comeback as a keystone species. This article covers our recent visit to the Ealing Beaver Project at Paradise Fields, London’s first fully accessible urban beaver reintroduction site, to see how nature-based solutions can support climate resilience in cities.
Exploring Our Shared Grief, Joy, and Hope through Climate Cafés
A climate café is for everyone. But it’s particularly useful for those who want to share their concerns in more informal settings, and build a stronger political voice on climate over time. In this article, our Environmental Officer shares some reflections and takeaways from our very first 'Climate Café'.
Reflections on our First Climate Workshop: Climate Justice is Racial Justice
We kicked off our Where Climate Meets Race project with a workshop introducing the intersections between climate justice and racial justice. The session had over 60 attendees and gave us the opportunity to introduce the project and set the scene. This article covers some reflections from the session, from ideologies such as the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ to notions of private property.
Recommended Reading
Climate change glossary: the terms you need to understand, explained
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.