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Ana Agostino and Rosa Lizarde explore the concept of climate justice as a rights approach to climate change. They propose that those in the South who are most affected by environmental changes need to receive justice from those in the North who are most responsible for climate change. They apply a gender lens to climate change, analyzing how women have been specifically hit by the phenomenon and how they are responding.
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This article has been adapted from our chapter in Harcourt, 2012. The material for the chapter and article drew on our work as active members of the climate justice movement working with the FTF of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty for which we coordinated a series of Women and Climate Justice Tribunals see http://whiteband.org/en/women-climate-hearings.
The NGO Alternative Treaties from the Global Forum at Rio de Janeiro, 1–15 June 1992, ‘People's Earth Declaration: A Proactive Agenda For The Future’, http://habitat.igc.org/treaties/at-01.htm.
John Braithwaite: ‘Restorative Justice and a Better Future’, http://iirp.org/library/braithwaite.html.
Renewing the Call: The Beirut Platform for the Global Call to Action against Poverty, 15 March 2006, http://www.whiteband.org/en/content/documents-publications.
Oxfam and tcktcktck.org, as well as GCAP, organized climate hearings: The Climate Hearings Project, Oxfam, http://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/climatechange/climate-hearings, and http://climatehearings.org/.
Women's tribunals were organized by the FTF and partner organizations in Nigeria, Botswana, Uganda, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Brazil during October – November 2009.
International Climate Justice Court, http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/international-climate-justice-tribunal/.
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Agostino, A., Lizarde, R. Gender and Climate Justice. Development 55, 90–95 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.99
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