CLIMATE JUSTICE: THE PROBLEM OF THE HOUR (KEY IJP************937)

• Smrit Jain

Abstract

Climate justice is a pressing and globally relevant topic that has addressed the moral and ethical dimensions of climate change. As the impact of climate change intensifies, the question of who bears the burdens and benefits of climate-related policies and actions becomes increasingly significant. This abstract provides an overview of the concept of climate justice, its key principles, and the urgency to incorporate justice into climate-related decision-making. Climate justice advocates for a fair and equitable response to climate change, recognizing that the impacts of global warming disproportionately affect vulnerable communities, particularly in low-income countries and among marginalized populations. This highlights the role of the youth in achieving climate justice, as they are the people who are going to be the most exposed to the future challenges that are coming up with the climate changes around the globe; the youth is the generation for whom we are actually trying to fight this problem of climate change; the writer in this research paper will discuss solutions to the changing environment and how we can integrate the role of young people in this journey of achieving climate justice. It also highlights the impacts of climate change on the marginalized and vulnerable communities, both within and between countries, the writer in this paper also talks about the solutions and recommendations that can be taken into consideration for the purpose of fighting the different issues that are existing in our environment and also how can we control the new emerging threats to environment before it becomes too big of a problem. The aim of this research is to come up with some of the new solutions, such as the involvement of the youth, address the problems faced by marginalized and vulnerable communities, and how all the policies that we have come with to achieve climate justice have not been as effective as we wanted them to be, and how we can actually improve the implementation of these policies.