Just resilience
These pages contain information about just resilience – what it is, why it matters, and how we can implement just resilience in our climate adaptation work.
What is "just resilience"
Just resilience is a matter of recognising the disproportionate impact of climate change on the most vulnerable groups in society, of protecting them and ensuring that the risks and benefits of climate adaptation measures are justly shared.
Why is just resilience important?
There is a risk that climate change will reinforce existing inequities and widen social divides. To mitigate this risk, a justice perspective should be considered in all strategic climate adaptation work.
How can we achieve just resilience?
The issue of a justice in climate adaptation should be addressed by politicians and policymakers at an early stage. The questions that should be considered are: What happens if we fail to consider aspects of justice? What will be the long-term cost? What effects will it have on society?
This is how we integrate just resilience in our work
On this page we have gathered some examples of how just resilience is integrated into our materials and tools.