Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice & Racial Justice
This report underscores that the global ecological crisis is a racial justice crisis. Racially, ethnically, and nationally marginalized groups are concentrated in global “racial sacrifice zones” and they bear the brunt of pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change.
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These same groups disparately face coerced displacement and immobility in the context of ecological crisis. Yet, the Special Rapporteur describes, “the interests and concerns of nonwhite peoples in particular have been successfully sidelined within the United Nations frameworks for coordinating the global response to ecological crisis” (A/77/549, para.7). She urges States and stakeholders within the UN environmental and climate governance regimes to “adopt a global approach that effectively responds to the fact that climate justice requires racial justice, and that racial justice requires climate justice” (para. 77).