Agnese and her blog

Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian With the current global sea level rise trend of 3,2 mm/year since 1993 as reported by the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), Kiribati, along with many other Small Island Developing States (SIDS) such as Seychelles, Maldives, Solomon Islands…, are not believed to survive the end of the century if necessary adaptation measures are not set into place.  Climate change is by now a highly debated topics among policy makers and academics which future consequences are already looming on our daily life experiences. One of the main visible effects of its worsening is sea level rise as highlighted as well in the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate published in 2019. The most vulnerable regions as a result of such change are the so called Small Island Developing States located all around the world in the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean and South China Sea (AIS).  Kiribati, a...

In my opinion, the concept of climate justice is pragmatically useful if applied to the policy making of adaptation and mitigation. It falls into a continuous loop of re-theorizing its boundaries and definitions if constraint to the academic discourse. The empirical analysis must be prioritized in order to concretely understand the implications and outcomes of specific frameworks of climate justice (Fisher, 2015). This can help us in supporting one pathway with respect to another and aim at the highest yield of diversely equitable adaptation according to the distinct needs of each community.  Climate justice has the duty to shift its focus to closing the gaps in development disparities, vulnerable groups, governance and resources in order to alleviate current inequities and trigger the start of a meaningful progress (Adams 2009). A fair and consequential structure should be developed in order to create a clear connection between climate justice and compensation. A suggestion could ...

Historically, marginalized communities have been more strongly impacted by climate change, despite the fact of being a rather small contributor into the anthropogenic drivers of global warming (Yip 2022). This disproportionate advancement of the phenomenon led to the development of the concept of Climate Justice. The main ideology of such movement, mostly led by young activists, assumes the undeniable connection between climate action or development and human rights. It elaborates on the fact that the fight against climate change must be naturally linked to combatting social, gender, economic and intergenerational injustice in order to yield the most just and efficient future outcome (Colón  2022). An appropriate example of such marginalization and climate injustice is represented by the indigenous communities. "We argue that the factors driving vulnerability within these communities are partly a function of centuries of economic neglect and political marginalization and are also ...

Historically, climate change has been a controversial scientific thematic to be justified to the general public. Since the beginning of the steadily increasing trend in global warming which started in the 1980s, scientists have faced difficulties in unanimously convincing the public that there exists strong positive correlation between anthropogenic GHG emissions and global warming. People would not be persuaded by the experiential values with which the changes in seasonal variability impacted their every day life. However studies found that the distrust in climate change was negatively associated with the annual global temperatures of the previous year as well as positively associate to the rise of conservative political parties (Hornsey 2022). As a result of these two root causes, it is clear that the unavoidable increase in the global temperatures as well as the political mobilization by elites and advocacy groups in the latest years have been critical in influencing climate change ...

The existence of anthropogenic climate change is today universally acknowledged by the scientific community. Even so, the focus of the research has shifted now towards a deeper root cause analysis into what is the extent of its impact geologically, economically and mostly sociologically.  Generally speaking, people who are socially, economically, culturally, politically, institutionally, or otherwise marginalized are especially vulnerable to climate change (IPCC 2014). Therefore, when analysing such assumption among different communities and regions, it becomes clear that on a global scale underdeveloped countries result as the most impacted by the phenomenon and its increasingly more frequent extreme events. The disproportionate effects that climate change has on different countries belong to a part of politics and diplomacy becoming only recently a strong focus on the international stage (Yip 2022). An example is the implementation of a Loss and Damage Fund during the recent COP2...