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United Women in Faith (formerly known as United Methodist Women) is the only official organization for women within The United Methodist Church (UMC). In 2022, United Methodist Women began doing business as United Women in Faith [1] (UWFaith). Founded in 1869, the organization now has nearly half a million members. [2]
Climate justice is a type of environmental justice [1] that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. [2] Climate justice seeks to achieve an equitable distribution of both the burdens of climate change and the efforts to mitigate climate change . [ 3 ]
Jacqueline (Jacqui) Patterson is founder of The Shirley Chisholm Legacy Project and former director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, which are dedicated to addressing the intersecting issues of environmental and social justice. Her work focuses on empowering marginalized communities, particularly Black women, by providing ...
The administration also said in May that it had requested $45 billion in discretionary climate and environmental justice spending for the fiscal year 2023 budget. There will be more environmental ...
In 2017, at age 15, Margolin founded the youth climate action organization Zero Hour with Nadia Nazar, [4] [8] Zanagee Artis, and other youth activists. [9] Margolin co-founded Zero Hour in reaction to the response she saw after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico [10] and her personal experience during the 2017 Washington wildfires.
I She was also named Climate Creator to Watch by Pique Action and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, [15] became a member of the first-ever National Environmental Youth Advisory Council at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, [16] and won a Trailblazer Award at Verdical Group's annual Net Zero Conference.
Climate Justice Action (CJA) is transnational coalition of organizations that seeks to prevent climate change and achieve climate justice. [1] [2] CJA formed as part of the alternative mobilisation around the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and organised mass Direct actions during the conference.
Climate Justice Now! [1] ( CJN!) is a global coalition of networks and organizations campaigning for climate justice. [2]The coalition was founded at the 2007 UNFCCC meeting in Bali, and has since mobilized for UNFCCC meetings in Bangkok, Copenhagen and Cancun.