Climate Justice is Social Justice

Something is wrong when a five-digit number can accurately predict how long an American will live, how much money they have, and how likely they are to go to college. Zip codes capture this because some communities in America face a disproportionate amount of inequalities. Too often, people of color, the elderly, or indigenous people are saddled with the weight of injustice.

 

In these communities, one can also see the heart of America’s social movements. 

 

 

It’s here that issues like climate, housing, mass criminalization, good jobs, and reproductive justice intersect. The threat of sea level rise in Miami is displacing low-income residents as wealthier people retreat from ocean views to higher land. In Louisiana, Black, brown and indigenous communities are more likely to live near fossil fuel power plants, causing a host of health challenges from asthma to cancer. They’re also more likely to live in places without emergency escape plans, like communities at the end of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline who are hung out to dry when storms come.

 

Freedom to Breathe is driving across nine states over 21 days to highlight the links between climate justice and social justice.

The “Climate Finance Day in Mexico” (September 18, 2018) is an event with two primary objectives. First, it aims to facilitate a space for multi-stakeholder dialogue so that people interested in mitigation and adaptation to climate change can share their experiences on allocation, access, management, and mobilization of finance to accelerate climate action in the country. Second, it looks to identify challenges and opportunities that can then be translated into a mobilization route that allows the country to implement actions to comply with the commitments that have been established at the national and international level in the matter.

Context

At the international level, various multi-stakeholder dialogues have been held to accelerate climate action, such as the One Planet Summit convened by French President Emmanuel Macron, which seeks to promote collaboration to achieve the assurances of the Paris Agreement, of which Mexico is Signatory and member of the ratification.

Mexico is in the process of government transition, which represents an opportunity to strengthen climate action. Thus, this event aims to generate a dialogue between representatives of the current and future government, with other stakeholders also interested in the subject.

Several initiatives and actions involving the same subject are already taking place and generating different spaces for dialogue and exchange is necessary to achieve the country’s goals. In May and June, several multi-stakeholder dialogues were held to identify challenges and recommendations that various actors propose on mobilizing finance to address climate change. Such challenges and recommendations are the basis for the integration of the event’s agenda.

Thematic

         Strengthen public policies for the effective transition towards a low- carbon, climate-resilient economy;

         Strengthen the sustainability vision of the financial sector;

         Scaling up the participation of the private sector in climate actions;

         Improve transparency to ensure the effectiveness of climate finance.

         Mobilization of climate finance to achieve:

               ​  The energy transition

               ​  The sustainable mobility

               ​  The creation of sustainable cities

               ​  The conservation of nature and adaptation to climate change

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