| Sumario: | The link between climate impacts and social inequities is what climate justice is about, and it's a link that's especially strong in the built environment. CLIMATE JUSTICE THE MOST recent report on environmental impacts, adaptations, and vulnerabilities from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in February, is "a further code red warning for humanity", according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Complicating the challenge is the fact that the localized nature of many community-based climate-justice initiatives is at odds with the scale and speed of change that's required to mitigate the climate emergency.
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