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Geographies of climate justice in Oceania

The Special Issue is motivated by the desire to ensure that climate action is fair, equitable and just globally, and contributes toward the broader sustainable development goals (especially Goal 13B), while also welcoming critique of those goals. The Special Issue seeks to explore the idea that all states have the human rights duty to protect adults and children in all their diversity from the harmful effects of the climate crisis, including displacement, and invites critique of the human rights systems which have failed to uphold any such duties thus far. The Special Issue will focus on building the ability of communities and neighbourhoods to take climate action in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Pacific Islands nations, and is interested in receiving comparative pieces on and from other geographic regions.

For example, the Special Issue calls for papers to investigate ways to help communities take action to support:

  • First Nations’ leadership in climate action;
  • Pacific knowledges for Pacific solutions;
  • the right to information about climate risks to ensure the participation of citizens and non-citizens in response;
  • the pursuit of accountability of state actors to protect people within and outside their borders from climate impacts;
  • the promotion of the rights of vulnerable people in emergencies and disasters;
  • the promotion of the right to freedom of movement and mobility;
  • explorations of the parameters placed on the right to protest and engage in climate advocacy;
  • the development of an agenda for urban climate justice;
  • the rethinking of concepts of loss and damage, risk, insurability, and intergenerational equity;
  • the creation of new rights such as a person’s right to a healthy environment and rights for nature.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to a funded writing workshop in the Gold Coast, Australia in late 2022 (with hybrid options to join by video link available) to refine draft papers and ensure the Special Issue works as a whole, and to build a community of practice.

All papers will be published fully Open Access in npj Climate Action. Article processing charge (APC) fees will be covered for First Nations and Pacific Islander authors, npj Climate Action also offers APC waivers. Find more about your opportunities here.

Geographies of climate justice in Oceania.

Editors

  • George Carter , 

    George Carter

    Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asian and Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, Australia

  • Susan Harris Rimmer  &

    Susan Harris Rimmer

    Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith University, Australia

  • Kirstie Petrou

    Kirstie Petrou

    Griffith University, Australia

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