Empowering Women and Youth for Transformative Climate and Environment Justice

May 14, 2020 | Tracy Kajumba
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At the beginning of March, Tracy Kajumba was a panellist at the OECD Global Forum on Environment. Here she reflects further on how women and youth can be enabled to strengthen environmental justice. Environmental justice and climate justice principles are mutually reinforcing, covering respect for rights, fairness, equity, participation, people and ecosystems among others. Reflecting on the role of women and men, boys and girls, in local and global environment and climate movements is important, not only to understand their situation and means of empowering them but also, to realise the transformation they can make if supported.