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Ecojustice Canada (formerly Sierra Legal Defence Fund prior to September 2007), is a Canadian non-profit environmental law organization [1] that provides funding to lawyers to use litigation to defend and protect the environment. [2] Ecojustice is Canada's largest environmental law charity.
The current School of the Environment traces its history to three institutes at the University of Toronto. In 1959, the Great Lakes Institute was founded by Prof George Burwash Langford to study the impacts of pollution on the Great Lakes, [4] and the geologist Roger E. Deane served as its first director. [5]
Core courses include micro and macroeconomics, legal analysis, political science and quantitative methods for policy analysis. The curriculum also includes five electives on domestic policy, law, and international policy, taken either at the Munk School or other graduate departments on the University of Toronto campus.
Climate change and climate justice have also been a component when discussing environmental justice and the greater impact it has on environmental justice communities. [80] Air pollution and water pollution are two contributors of climate change that can have detrimental effects such as extreme temperatures, increase in precipitation, and a ...
Heath blogged at In Due Course from 2014 until 2019 (last post). [17] Some time after that he lost the original domain name, but the site was backed up and is accessible at the University of Toronto. [18] Despite that, he chose to switch publishing to Substack in 2023 allowing free access. [19]
Sabine Fuss, climate scientist focusing on sustainable resource management; Ulrike Lohmann (born 1966), climate researcher focusing on aerosol particles in clouds; Katrin Meissner, German and Australian physical oceanographer and climate scientist, director of the Climate Change Research Centre at University of New South Wales
CPJ defines public justice as the political dimension of loving one's neighbour, caring for creation, and achieving the common good. [2] CPJ's mission statement is "to promote public justice in Canada by shaping key public policy debates through research and analysis, publishing, and public dialogue.
Climate justice also tries to address the social implications of climate change mitigation. If these are not addressed properly, this could result in profound economic and social tensions. It could even lead to delays in necessary changes. [15] Climate justice actions can include the growing global body of climate litigation. [16]