Climate Justice

Climate Justice: A Tool to Combat Poverty

Global voices on climate justice – Highlight

We heard about insights, priorities and actions by members of our community and beyond from around the world including Fiji, Ghana, Uganda, India, Sudan,
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Four Essential Elements for the “Just” in “Just Transitions”

The concept of “just transition” – a whole-of-society approach to decarbonisation that respects human rights while promoting sustainable development, the eradication of poverty, and the creation of decent work and quality jobs – has come increasingly centre stage in national and international discussions on finance, energy, agriculture, and other key industrial transitions to net-zero. 
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Business Fights Poverty Climate Justice 2023

The online Business Fights Poverty Climate Summit 2023, broadcasting live from Dubai and Nairobi during the COP28 climate summit, will give you the chance to
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Effective Partnerships: Key to Supporting Climate Vulnerable Communities

Practical Action’s purpose for almost 60 years has been to work with people living in poverty so that they can transform their lives and influence wider systems change so that the changes can be sustained and scaled. This now means that almost everything we do with communities, business or government includes dealing with the impacts of the climate crisis.
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Rohtak, Haryana, India – September 11, 2013: Female farmer of Indian ethnicity standing portrait near cotton crop field.

Women Cotton Farmers and Climate Solutions

CottonConnect believe that climate adaptation and mitigation are more effective when women are involved. Given the right training, skills and tools, women tend to make more sustainable decisions. They bring holistic change to communities and drive progress. When elevated to a decision-making position, women encourage better climate governance and more climate innovation.
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Walking for Climate Justice: Community Voices Share their Desperation and Sparks of Hope.

I am a climate activist – and I walk. In the last 11 years I have walked over 35 million steps in the name of climate action. And in that time, I meet people and I listen. During the climate conference of 2022, instead of walking in Egypt, I walked with communities in Zambia, and I listened. This is a story of what I heard.
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Being a Climate Activist with Pushpanath Krishnamurthy

What does it take to be a climate activist? Social Impact Pioneer and climate activist Pushpanath Krishnamurthy talks about what motivates and drives him to give up an easy life and devote it to campaigning for climate justice.
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NGO Advocacy with Chelsea Hodgkins, Oxfam America

How can civil society hold businesses and governments to account? This podcast examines the role of NGO advocacy and activism in pushing for better social and environmental outcomes.
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Where are the gaps in business leadership for climate justice?

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Food Security and Climate Change, with Aled Jones, NFU Cymru

Food Security and Climate Change, with Aled Jones, NFU Cymru

Hear from Social Impact Pioneer Aled Jones. Aled is an eighth-generation farmer and the President of the National Farmers Union Cymru – the leading agricultural organisation that represents and champions all farmers and growers in Wales.
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The Unrecognised Intersections Between Climate Change and Modern Slavery

How climate change and modern slavery intersect, and why this intersection must be recognised by governments and businesses. The world cannot properly tackle climate change without including efforts to end modern slavery.
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Malnutrition is a Business Issue, Explain Maniza and Alok

Malnutrition is a business issue. The link between malnutrition and poverty might be an obvious one. The links between malnutrition and business are perhaps less so. During this conversation we are going to deep dive into both, whilst looking at the intersections between nutrition, climate change, conflict and communicable disease.
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COP27: A Historic But Insufficient Move Towards Climate Justice

For two weeks in November colleagues from Practical Action have been in Sharm El-Sheikh at the UN climate change conference, COP27. We were there to ensure that the voices of the people we work with in some of the world’s most climate vulnerable places were heard as global leaders took decisions about their futures.
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Farmers Hold the Key to the Climate Crisis – If Only World Leaders at COP27 Would Listen

The world’s smallholder farmers and agricultural workers are ready, willing, and able to help confront climate change where it matters most, protecting their communities, preserving their livelihoods, and safeguarding our planet’s food supply. Nevertheless, the question remains: are our leaders willing to let them?
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What is Climate Justice, with Tara, Chris and Javier

If you want to know simply what Climate Justice is and why your business should start caring and promoting climate action, you’ve come to the right place. But don’t miss a moment, cause the #ClockisTicking.
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It’s Time for Companies to Step Up on Net Zero

Companies in the richest countries have still not agreed to climate measures that are in line with staying below 1.5 degrees. Danielle Smith and Hilde Stroot welcome new guidance from a UN panel, released at COP27, to push action by firms on corporate net-zero plans – and set out five key ways in which its recommendations will lead to climate justice.
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Palm Oil and Climate Justice with Anita Neville

Palm oil and climate justice – what is the story? Social impact pioneer, Anita Neville, helps us unpack this complex topic. This podcast forms part of a series – examining how business addresses climate justice.
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Climate Conferences with Obed Koringo

How do climate conferences work? Hear from social impact pioneer Obed Koringo, part of the CARE delegation at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Obed shares how governments, negotiators, civil society, businesses and other stakeholders all work together to help move along global climate commitments and drive actions towards better climate outcomes for all.
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Transitioning to Net Zero in the Middle East and North Africa: Three Focus Points

As Egypt readies itself to host COP27 and the UAE for COP28, Adithya Subramoni argues that the MENA region must recognise the social dimension in action on climate, emphasise affordability and accessibility in the drive towards renewables, and seize the potential for the transition to create a large number of good jobs.
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Why Businesses Must Focus on Putting People at the Heart of Climate Action Strategies

We’ve heard many pledges by businesses and governments to go further, create real and lasting change in cocoa supply chains, and ensure a better future for farming communities and our climate. However, turning those promises into action remains a challenge.
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What do we mean by "Climate Justice"?

Delve into the role of climate justice in alleviating poverty, focusing on equitable solutions that address both environmental and social inequities.

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