As an enormous body of research makes explicitly clear, people of color, women, and especially the poor will bear the brunt of the catastrophic effects of climate change globally. Climate change is without doubt the biggest social justice issue of this century as it is estimated that many millions of people, primarily in poor countries, are likely to face displacement, disease, war and death as a result of climate change caused primarily by rich Western countries.
The Tufts University Climate Change, Climate Justice Initiative aims to connect environmental movements to social justice movements. We support climate change and climate justice education, research, and activism on local, national, and global levels. We bring groups within and outside of the university together in order to address local and global community needs. Moreover, we aspire to incorporate a social justice lens into climate change initiatives throughout the university, as well as to increase the diversity of those who are at the table in climate change research, policy making, and activism.
Antje Danielson
Program Manager, Tufts Institute of the Environment
Dale Bryan
Assistant Director, Peace & Justice Studies
Denise Phillips
Coordinator of Programs and Special Projects, Africana Center
Heather Angstrom
Program Coordinator, Tufts Institute of the Environment
Jonathan Kenny
Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director, Tufts Environmental Literacy Institute
Julian Agyeman
Chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Kirk Lange
Assistant Director, International Relations
Mieke van der Wansem
Associate Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy
Modhumita Roy
Associate Professor, English
Tina Woolston
Project Coordinator, Office of Sustainability
2008-2009
October 24, 2008
Community Focus Group on Environmental Justice
March 3, 2009
International Women's Day Symposium on Climate Change, Women and Health
2007-2008
September 1 - October 15, 2007
Rising Tide, Sinking Nation: The Effects of Global Warming on Kiribati
October 9, 2007
The Rising Tide: Boston and Beyond
November 28, 2007
The Rising Tide: Development and Climate Change: Where is the Justice?
January 31, 3008
Focus the Nation
March 8, 2008
International Women's Day
April 3, 2008
Beverly Wright and Ted Glick
May 19-22, 2008
Tufts Environmental Literacy Institute
Minutes
Jan 2009 working group meeting
Dec 2008 working group meeting
