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Environmental justice

The environmental crisis doesn't affect everyone equally. Often the worst impacts fall on those who are already most exploited by people in power. The fight for environmental justice is about addressing this unfairness, and making sure green solutions don't add to the problem.

Key ideas

Understand the most important ideas in the struggle for environmental justice

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Explainer

A just transition

Tackling the climate crisis without harming workers in polluting industries.

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Explainer

Loss and damage

Who foots the bill for climate destruction?

Environmental justice

Sacrifice zones

The places being destroyed by greed and discrimination.

Group of women holding signs at a climate protest. The ones we can easily read say: ‘Be part of the solution, not part of the pollution’ and ‘It’s a beautiful world, let’s keep it that way!’

Activism

Intersectionality

Understanding how our identities define our experience of environmental crises.

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Watch: racism and environmental destruction

Understand how racism and the environmental emergency are linked.

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In focus: racism and the environmental crisis

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Why we can’t tackle the environmental emergency without tackling racism.

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A collaboration between Greenpeace and the Runnymede Trust, exposing the reality of environmental racism in the UK and worldwide.

Vital voices

Meet the people fighting for environmental justice

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Environmental justice

Meet the Indigenous community that’s fighting deforestation – and winning

Through high-tech forest monitoring and persistent legal action against invasions, the Karipuna Indigenous People are beginning to win the fight against deforestation in their Amazon lands. Here’s their remarkable story.

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Activism

For Black people, a walk in the countryside can be a powerful act of protest

Britain’s countryside excludes nearly eight million people of colour. Reclaiming our right to roam can reconnect marginalised communities to nature and the land.

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Oceans

“Now, nothing is normal” – six ocean experts share their hopes, fears and solutions for our blue planet.

To understand what’s happening to the seas, we asked the people who know them best. Their stories might just change the way you see our oceans.

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Activism

For disabled environmentalists, discrimination and exclusion are a daily reality

From straws to street design, disabled people are often left out of the environmental decisions that affect them most.

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Supporting the movement

Greenpeace campaigns are part of a wider movement to build a green and peaceful world, and we're committed to supporting and sustaining that movement. Here's how we work with our allies to make change.

Find out about allyship

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Get involved with powerful campaigns for environmental justice.

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Environmental justice

Key ideas

A just transition

Loss and damage

Sacrifice zones

Intersectionality

Watch: racism and environmental destruction

In focus: racism and the environmental crisis

Read a summary

Read the full report

Vital voices

Meet the Indigenous community that’s fighting deforestation – and winning

For Black people, a walk in the countryside can be a powerful act of protest

“Now, nothing is normal” – six ocean experts share their hopes, fears and solutions for our blue planet.

For disabled environmentalists, discrimination and exclusion are a daily reality

Rainbow warriors: how queer movements can inspire climate activists

I grew up without environmental role models. The next generation shouldn’t have to do the same.

Meet the young people of colour fighting for our planet

What I wish non-disabled people understood about disability and plastic

Supporting the movement

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