Noting that “global climate change has a disproportionate impact on communities of color in the United States and around the world”, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Climate Justice Initiative educates and mobilizes to address climate change and climate resilience as civil rights issues. Their advocacy agenda includes clean energy, transportation equity, food justice, equity in urban and rural development, economic empowerment in a green economy, health justice, education justice, disaster planning, … Continue reading The NAACP’s Climate Justice Initiative advocates climate justice as a civil rights issue