ABSTRACT

‘Climate justice’ fuses progressive political-economic and political-ecological currents to combat the most serious threat humanity and most other species face in the twenty-first century. Climate justice arrived on the international scene as a coherent political approach in the wake of the failure of a more collaborative strategy between major environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the global capitalist managerial class. But it is important to ensure that the gendered and class distinctions in addressing climate politics be foregrounded, the subject of this essay.