Mastodawn

"...drought tightens its grip, just as humanitarian funding has sharply decreased, forcing many organizations to close programmes"
How can anyone doubt the foul #climateinjustice at play

Tadzio Mueller Aug 21, 2025

#DisasterInjustice:

"The faster our world heats up, the faster the divide between the cooled and the cooked will widen. This deepens #climateinjustice, which is that the people who have done the least to cause it are the ones who will suffer the most."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/extreme-heat-class-divide.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk8.y8AD.S53bVsx_0qkc&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawMS3jlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFjeHFBdVFVYjNzeVVBanZ3AR7hqbG1_T8nf4rYj8yYRzGbjGi_Ys0xO6Jp5C1xBbTrkTkOYsdlea28YbUCfg_aem_-eZAW7IKKoXsYNS4Mks2ew

Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked

Heat waves are increasingly dangerous for those without water, shade and air-conditioning.

The New York Times

Blaire Aspen May 21, 2025

This is disheartening! I wonder how this will "change a little bit how [they] talk about [climate]..." and how they are going to "incorporate sustainability."

https://www.cbc.ca/?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

(Link is to article entitled "Canada Pension Plan Investments drops net-zero target after initially aiming for 2050" on CBC)

#CPP #CanadaPensionPlan #ClimateJustice #ClimateInjustice

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rexi May 15, 2025

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-world-wealthiest-contributed-thirds-global.html

research sheds new light on the links between income-based #emissions inequality and #climateinjustice, illustrating how the consumption and investments of wealthy individuals have had disproportionate impacts on #extremeweatherevents. These impacts are especially severe in vulnerable tropical regions like the #AmazonBasin, #SoutheastAsia, and southern #Africa—all areas that have historically contributed the least to #globalemissions.

World's wealthiest 10% have contributed to two-thirds of global warming since 1990, study finds

Wealthy individuals have a higher carbon footprint. A new study published in Nature Climate Change quantifies the climate outcomes of these inequalities. It finds that the world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of observed global warming since 1990 and the resulting increases in climate extremes such as heat waves and droughts.

Phys.org

Miguel Afonso Caetano May 9, 2025

"Climate injustice persists as those least responsible often bear the greatest impacts, both between and within countries. Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate change. We link emissions inequality over the period 1990–2020 to regional climate extremes using an emulator-based framework. We find that two-thirds (one-fifth) of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% (1%), meaning that individual contributions are 6.5 (20) times the average per capita contribution. For extreme events, the top 10% (1%) contributed 7 (26) times the average to increases in monthly 1-in-100-year heat extremes globally and 6 (17) times more to Amazon droughts. Emissions from the wealthiest 10% in the United States and China led to a two- to threefold increase in heat extremes across vulnerable regions. Quantifying the link between wealth disparities and climate impacts can assist in the discourse on climate equity and justice."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Inequality #ClimateInjustice #PoliticalEconomy #GasEmissions

High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change

While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disproportionately contribute to the increase in mean temperature and the frequency of extreme events.

Nature

Lilith Gnosis Mar 4, 2025

surfs up, dude

#ClimateInjustice #SCOTUS #Environment #Oceans

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/supreme-court-san-francisco-poop-epa/index.html

Supreme Court lets San Francisco discharge more raw sewage into the Pacific Ocean

The conservative Supreme Court aligned with liberal San Francisco on Tuesday, ruling that federal environmental regulators overstepped their authority by attempting to impose vague limits on how much raw sewage the California city may pump into the Pacific Ocean.

CNN

Reda Sadki Oct 15, 2024

Discussions at the World Health Summit in Berlin this week have rightly emphasized the role of health workers, especially those directly serving local communities.

Health workers stand at the intersection of climate change and community health.

They are first-hand eyewitnesses and the first line of defense against the impacts of climate on health.

There is real horror in the climate impacts on health they describe.

Read the Health Worker Eyewitness reports “Climate change and health: Health workers on climate, community, and the urgent need for action“ and “On the frontline of climate change and health: A health worker eyewitness report”.

There is also real hope in the local solutions and strategies they are already implementing to help communities survive such impacts, most often without support from their government or from the global community.

There is no alternative to the health workforce as the ones most likely to drive effective adaptation strategies and build trust when it comes to climate change and health.

Their unique value stems from several key factors:

Firsthand experience: Health workers witness the direct and indirect health impacts of climate change daily, providing valuable insights.

Community trust: As respected figures in their communities, health workers can effectively communicate climate-health risks and promote adaptive behaviors.

Local knowledge: Their deep understanding of local contexts allows for the development of tailored, culturally appropriate solutions.

Existing infrastructure: Health workers represent an established network that is already having to respond to climate change.

As Dr. Maria Neira from the World Health Organization emphasized at Teach to Reach 10 in June 2024: “We need to use our voice, the power of the voice of health, to convince governments to do three things. First, accelerate the transition to clean sources of energy to stop this disaster. Second, to accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems. And third, to accelerate the transition to better planning of urban areas…” Learn more about Teach to Reach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai5RlHRt70A

However, current global health investments often overlook the potential of health workers.

Furthermore, there is a tendency to see them as instruments to implement national plans and policies and recipients for knowledge about climate change that they are assumed to be lacking.

This fails to recognize the potential of health workers to lead, not just execute plans, in the face of climate change impacts on health.

It also fails to recognize the significance and value of local knowledge and experience that health workers hold because they are there every day.

A shift in focus could make health workers the most obvious “best buy” for governments and international funders.

By investing in health workers as agents of change, we can leverage an existing, trusted workforce to rapidly scale up adaptation efforts and rebuild trust in global health initiatives.

One innovative model developed by The Geneva Learning Foundation has shown promise in this area, connecting over 60,000 health practitioners across 137 countries and reaching frontline government staff working for health in conflict zones and other challenging contexts.

This approach not only maximizes the impact of climate-health investments but also strengthens health systems overall, creating a win-win scenario for global health and climate resilience.

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https://redasadki.me/2024/10/15/world-health-summit-to-rebuild-trust-in-global-health-recognize-health-workers-as-community-leaders/

#climateChange #climateInjustice #community #health #HRH #MariaNeira #trust #WHOInvestmentRound #WorldHealthSummit

Climate change and health: Health workers on climate, community, and the urgent need for action

As world leaders gathered for the COP28 climate conference, the Geneva Learning Foundation called for the insights of health workers on the frontlines of climate and health to be heard amidst the global dialogue. Ahead of Teach to Reach 10, a new eyewitness report analyses 219 responses from 122 health professionals – primarily those working in local communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America – to two critical questions: How is climate change affecting the health of the communities you serve right now? And what actions must world leaders take to help you protect the people in your care? (Teach to Reach is a regular peer learning event. The tenth edition on 20-21 June 2024 is expected to gather over 20,000 community-based health workers to share experience of climate change impacts on health.) Their answers paint a picture of the accelerating health crisis unfolding in the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions. Community nurses, doctors, midwives and public health officers detail how volatile weather patterns are driving up malnutrition, infectious disease, mental illness, and more - while simultaneously battering health systems and blocking patient access to care. Yet woven throughout are also threads of resilience, ingenuity and hope. These health advocates are not just passively observing the impacts of climate change, but actively responding - often with scarce resources. From spearheading tree-planting initiatives to strengthening infectious disease surveillance to promoting climate literacy, they are innovating locally-tailored solutions. Importantly, respondents emphasize that climate impacts cannot be viewed in isolation, but rather as one facet of the interlocking crises of environmental destruction, poverty, and health inequity. Their insights make clear that climate action and community health are two sides of the same coin - and that neither will be achieved without deep investment in local health workforces and systems. Rooted in direct lived experience and charged with moral urgency, these frontline voices offer a stirring reminder that climate change is not some distant specter, but a life-and-death challenge already at the doorsteps of the global poor. As this new collection of insights implores, it’s high time their perspectives moved from the margins to the center of the climate debate. Charlotte Mbuh of The Geneva Learning Foundation explained: “We hope that the chorus of voices will grow to strengthen the case for why and how investment in human resources for health is likely to be a ‘best buy’ for community-focused efforts to build the climate resilience of public health systems.”

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khanke_Oct 13, 2024

@koen_hufkens I don't put blame on you. It's a great story; share it! The ambivalence of the topic comes across clearly in the article. However, I disagree that this applies to all #charity. The article even mentions #worldbicyclerelief seem to draw significantly above-average amounts of money from the company, compared to similar #ngo – and, in case of its CEO, fund hobbies with it that increase #climateinjustice. I think that's useful information to have before giving money away to charity.

Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴Sep 15, 2024

Over 900 dead or missing in floods caused by remnants of #TyphoonYagi in #Myanmar

#ClimateChange is having a disproportional, highly adverse impact on small, economically underdeveloped countries that contribute little to nothing to the #ClimateCrisis.
https://watchers.news/2024/09/15/over-900-dead-or-missing-in-floods-caused-by-remnants-of-typhoon-yagi-in-myanmar/

#EconomicInjustice #ClimateInjustice #EconomicJustice #ClimateJustice

Over 900 dead or missing in floods caused by remnants of Typhoon “Yagi” in Myanmar

The aftermath of Typhoon “Yagi” has left Myanmar devastated, with at least 459 people dead, more than 450 missing, over 240 000 displaced…

The Watchers

Anne Baillot Jul 8, 2024

Last night was #StatueSunday in Berlin.
To learn more about why @scientistrebellion_GER blindfolds statues to protest #climateinjustice, see https://scientistrebellion.de/l0q8hl4uj1291mw0vwl8rcpyd85s2c26/ #climatecrisis #climatemovement