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Social justice
A world freed from the shackles of its fossil fuel addiction through strategic education and mobilization of the communities that have shouldered the burden disproportionately. A world where these communities have been made whole and where access to a clean, safe, sustainable community is a human right and not only a gift to the privileged. The strategy EJCC employs to achieve that end is comprised of community organizing, research, education, and coalition building. We redefine the debate about global warming to include the voices of the marginalized and unduly burdened, while promoting accountability and transparency in government policies and industry practice.Climate change is not only an issue of the environment; it is also an issue of justice and human rights, one that dangerously intersects race and class. All over the world people of color, Indigenous Peoples and low-income communities bear disproportionate burdens from climate change itself, from ill-designed policies to prevent it, and from side effects of the energy systems that cause it. The Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative started out of a necessity to include a race and class analysis in the climate change debate in order to achieve just and equitable climate policy.
