CLIMATE JUSTICE AND RACIAL EQUITY

Black voices and pluralities

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Anti-racist adaptation,
environmental racism,
socio-environmental injustices.

DEBATING
REALITIES,
DISCUSSING
PERSPECTIVES.

THERE IS NO TIME NOR CONTEXT FOR GIVING UP

The climate emergency is a confrontational crisis against structural inequalities.
Racism is a system of oppression in its political and social dimensions.
Therefore, to discuss climate justice is to confront environmental racism.

AXES OF
ACTION

Here, we exclusively dedicate ourselves to the themes of the Black population in Brazil’s climate agenda

OUR MISSION

To widen the public debate and influence public policieson climate justice and racial equity at local, regional, and national levels.

To investigate and analyze the main challenges faced, achievements and problems involving black populations while integrated to the categories of climate justice, environmental racism and climate changes. The objective is to build diagnostics based on participatory methodologies, citizen data generation and accessible language.

Journeys of training and climate education, aimed at qualifying and literating the Black population on the climate crisis. The goal is to bring  knowledge to the Black population about problems and solutions in the five Brazilian regions.

Join the field, lead and set the agenda for actions of pressure, mobilization, or coordination to influence decision-making in the federal executive level and  judiciary through strategies, campaigns and other  forms of intervention. The climate justice agenda is a priority cause, and our goal is to influence and racialize  socio-environmental public policies for the Black population.

Communication is power! Through the construction and dissemination of sources, data and information about climate justice with a racial perspective for Black populations, we want  to bring the topic to different audiences and media in a decolonial way.  For this, we need to build narratives based on evidence and political advocacy.

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

The CBJC wants to enable Climate Literacy courses in some places in the Amazon, highlighting the effects and developments of Environmental Racism, both in the rural areas (which require land regularization - mainly Indigenous and Quilombola lands) and in rural areas (especially in peripheral areas), where the majority of the Black population is concentrated, one of the most affected by climate changes. Initiatives like this represent the effort to increase the awareness of the population. “The economy must be subordinate to ecological issues, to ecology and not the other way around as it is being done”, which is one of the principles of Good Living/Ubuntu/ Teko Porã/Postcolonial Feminism.
Nilma BentesCEDENPA - Center for the Study and Defense
of the Black in Pará
The CBJC is created at a strategic moment, when Brazil is repeatedly impacted by extreme climate events that exceed the institutional capacity to prevent, respond and create adaptation strategies. The time for Black and Afro-descendant communities, who are among the most affected, is not the same as that of the institutions and public policies. Therefore, Resama celebrates the arrival of the CBJC as a key actor for public and political understanding of these dynamics that demand a comprehensive look towards confronting and repairing the multiple injustices aggravated by the climate crisis.
Erika Pires Ramos | Founder of ResamaSouth American Network for Environmental Migrations


The launch of the CBJC is essential to promote the participation and informed incidence of Afro-descendants in spaces of power that promote public policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Moreover, the Center's justice perspective reminds us that the climate crisis is not only about CO2 emissions in the atmosphere but also about who is impacted, and which models of fair development we will guide in an ecological transition process.
Iago Hairon | Global Climate Program ManagerOpen Society Foundations

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

DATA ABOUT CLIMATE
AND RACIAL JUSTICE

of Brazil’s population is Black and mixed race
(IBGE)
0 %
processes for the titling of Quilombola territories (Agência Senado, feb. 2025)
0
of people without access to water supply are Black and mixed raced
(IBGE)
0 %
of those living without clean water are below the poverty line
(Instituto Trata Brasil)
0 %

Dialogues
between you
and the world

Political advocacy for the Black populations in favelas, outskirts, cities, quilombos, forests and other urban and rural territories. It’s fight or fight!

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