Climate justice protects everyone from the effects of climate change, especially the most vulnerable. Climate justice includes representation and inclusion of all when looking for solutions to climate change.

Climate justice means looking to the past to fix our future: how colonizers tore cultures apart and destroyed land, impacting the biodiversity of Earth today. It means listening the voices of indigenous cultures, and other marginalized communities. These voices often go unheard when climate decisions get made, but they feel the effects of climate change the most.

One of many examples of climate change impacting marginalized communities is in Tucson, Arizona. As temperatures continue to rise, the area with the least shade and man-made tree canopies is also the area where most BIPOC Tucsonans live. The City of Tucson is implementing policies to fix this climate injustice.

According to IEP, by 2050 1.2 billion climate refugees will be displaced from their homes due to climate disasters.