Climate justice news
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2026
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These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters, theguardian.com (Feb 08, 2026) - Pakistan seeks justice for environmental harm through climate litigation, globalvoices.org (Jan 11, 2026)
- World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Jan 10, 2026)
2025
[edit | edit source]- Climate justice case study through Pakistan’s energy predicament: What China’s energy sector can and cannot do for the Global South, Qian Sun and Sonia Awale, globalvoices.org (Dec 10, 2025)
- Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds, theguardian.com (Dec 10, 2025)
- Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025)
- A Landmark Court Ruling Looms Over U.S. Absence at COP30, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 18, 2025) — The historic climate change advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice suggests the United States is violating international law on climate, legal experts say.
- Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds, theguardian.com (Nov 09, 2025) — Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
- The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer, Editorial, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025)
- Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 03, 2025)
- Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities: ‘This is absurd’, theguardian.com (Nov 03, 2025) — New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected
- America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2025) — Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
- ‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025) — Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
- Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy today, unep.org (Oct 03, 2025) — While cases from the Global South still represent less than 10 per cent in 2025, their share is steadily growing.
- ‘Draw the Line’ in Asia: Community organizers call for climate justice and accountability, globalvoices.org (Sep 30, 2025)
- France, Spain among countries to agree to tax premium flyers, private jets, reuters.com (Jun 30, 2025)
- Pakistan slams climate ‘injustice’ as deadly floods hit country again, aljazeera.com (Jun 28, 2025) — The Climate Rate Index report in 2025 put Pakistan top of the list of the most affected countries based on 2022 data. Then, extensive flooding submerged approximately a third of the country, affecting 33 million people – including killing more than 1,700
- Trump Executive Orders Violate Young People’s Rights to a Stable Climate, a Lawsuit Alleges, insideclimatenews.org (May 30, 2025)
- Women aren’t 14 times more likely to die in disasters – inequality is the real killer, climatechangenews.com (May 29, 2025)
- In Guadeloupe, ‘Creole gardens’ give climate lessons in a spirit of solidarity, globalvoices.org (Apr 15, 2025)
- The climate movement needs lawyers. This ‘pro bono bootcamp’ helps connect the dots., grist.org (Apr 02, 2025)
- Christians worldwide urged to take legal action on climate crisis, theguardian.com (Mar 24, 2025)
- Greenpeace’s $660m damages ruling a ‘wake-up call’ to climate movement, climatechangenews.com (Mar 21, 2025)
- The legal tussle to hold corporate polluters accountable for climate loss and damage, the-wave.net (Mar 05, 2025)
- Five ways that illustrations can tell climate justice stories, theconversation.com (Feb 11, 2025)
- South Africa's patchwork climate plans risk widening inequality, Kim Harrisberg, context.news (Jan 24, 2025) — "...placing communities at the heart of these plans through bringing the policies to them in local forums is key", Chantal Naidoo, Rabia Transitions, South African transitions finance research and advisory non-profit
- Saving the surf is a climate solution, Grist (Jan 16, 2025)
- It’s time for Africa to join the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, Boniface Mwangi, africanarguments.org (Jan 14, 2025)
- Oxfam: Super-rich have already burned more than their fair share of carbon for 2025, climatechangenews.com (Jan 10, 2025)
2023-2024
[edit | edit source]- Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told, theguardian.com (Dec 02, 2024)
- COP29: Climate change could kill millions — and world leaders must work to limit fatalities, Joshua M. Pearce, theconversation.com (Nov 26, 2024)
- Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Oct 28, 2024)
- ‘I think, boy, I’m a part of all this’: how local heroes reforested Rio’s green heart, theguardian.com (Oct 10, 2024)
- A ‘green new deal’ is Canada’s best hope of achieving a just carbon-zero transition, theconversation.com (Jul 21, 2024)
- Climate in the courtroom: all sides are using ‘green lawfare’, and it’s good for democracy, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
- Young Alaskans sue state over fossil fuel project they claim violates their rights, theguardian.com (May 23, 2024)
- First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism, theguardian.com (Apr 29, 2024)
- These Are the Climate Grannies. They’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Protect Their Grandchildren, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 03, 2024)
- Philippine congress files world’s first climate accountability bill, greenpeace.org (Nov 23, 2023)
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