Resources

5 Significant Moments Driving Environmental Justice in the US

  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
  • environmental justice
President Biden, surrounded by people, holds an executive order on environmental justice.
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
  • environmental justice
Insights

It’s About Time: The Climate Community Invests in Securing Community Land

  • land rights
  • COP26
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
A large patch of lemongrass in the Chisapani Community Forest
  • land rights
  • COP26
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
Insights

Climate Action Isn’t Reaching the Most Vulnerable — But it Could

  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Equity
  • environmental justice
  • COP28
flash flood in Bangladesh
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Equity
  • environmental justice
  • COP28

Innovative US Bill Tackles Climate Change, Local Pollution and Economic Inequality

  • Climate
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • climate policy
Smoke coming out of a factory on a cloudy day.
  • Climate
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • climate policy

Earth Day at 50: Five Ways to Honor the Legacy and Change the World

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
Black and white photo of a crowd and speaker outside the University of Michigan for the first Earth Day in 1970.
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • climate change
  • international climate policy

The IPCC Calls for Securing Community Land Rights to Fight Climate Change

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Women of Peru's Awajun Native Community of Shampuyacu
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Climate Action Will Shape People’s Lives. They Should Have a Chance to Shape Climate Action

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
climate migration
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
Women in Mityana, Uganda
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • Gender

Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations