The document discusses climate justice and the urgent need for action against climate change, highlighting the three primary causes: burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and livestock farming. It defines climate justice as a civil rights movement focused on vulnerable communities and outlines key proposals from the UN Climate Action Summit 2019, including a transition to renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. The global climate strike on September 23, 2019, saw over 7.6 million participants, emphasizing the necessity for immediate change.

1. Climate
Justice
By Megan Whitten

2. TOPICS TO DISCUSS
About Climate Change
Climate Justice Overview
The Global Action Summit 2019
Bring Into Action
Global Climate Strike 2019

3. Over the past 100 years, Earth’s climates have been changing, but the past 4
years have been the hottest on record and climate change effects are being seen
everywhere. Now is the time to take action.
A BRIEF BACKGROUND

4. Causes Climate Change
3 major causes of Climate Change include:
1. Burning coal, oil, and gas
2. Deforestation
3. Increased livestock farming

5. What these effects are doing to the environment:
1. Produces greenhouse gases and causes pollution
2. Carbon can’t store CO2 so it adds more to the
atmosphere
3. Cows and sheep add methane to the atmosphere when
they digest
Effects of Climate Change

6. Climate Justice defined by the UN:
“Climate justice “insists on a shift from a discourse on
greenhouse gases and melting ice caps into a civil rights
movement with the people and communities most
vulnerable to climate impacts at its heart.”

7. The UN Climate Change Summit was held on September 23 in Washing D.C.. UN
Secretary-General António Guterres asked leaders, goverment, buisnesses and
the people to come to this summit to address the climate crisis.
There are actual solutions to climate change and it is time to put them into action.
In order to go through with these solutions, things need to change. Examples such
as including women in decision making, being fair and create opportunities for
everyone, especially those who are impacted the most.
The Climate Action Summit 2019

8. 1. A global transition to renewable energy
2. Sustainable and resilient infrastructures and cities
3. Sustainable agriculture
4. Management of forrests and oceans
5. Alignment of public and private finance with a net zero
economy
6 Major Areas of Development:

9. Over 7.6 Million people around the world participated in
the Global Climate Strike on September 23 of this year.
The Global Climate Strike
2019

10. “Right here, right
now, is where we
draw the line. The
world is waking up,
and change is
coming – whether
you like it, or not”.
- Greta Thunburg

11. Bibliography
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/un-climate-summit-2019.shtml
https://studyindenmark.dk/news/denmark-the-most-climate-friendly-country
https://globalclimatestrike.net
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/change/causes_en