The liberal limits to transformation in the Green Climate Fund

Climate loss-and-damage funding: how to get money to where it’s needed fast

“…The former focused on how compelling the climate rationale was, whether funds were being used optimally and how well investment criteria were explained. The latter raised more concerns about whether a proposal would cause further risk and harm and how inclusive its development process was 10 .…”

Environmental justice policy in the United States: community definition and benefits allocation in underserved and overburdened communities

“…While environmental justice has been overwhelmingly theorized and utilized in a U.S. context, climate justice spans the local to global scales, and at its heart, climate justice is a critique of colonialism, inequity, and extraction economics (Agarwal & Narain, 1991;Rice et al, 2022;Sultana, 2022). Climate justice activists and scholars have distinguished transformative justice from "liberal models of justice" (Forsyth & McDermott, 2022;Kuhl et al, 2023), a distinction paralleled in environmental justice activism and scholarship (Schlosberg & Collins, 2014).…”

“…The Biden Administration established the Justice40 Initiative to invest, at minimum, 40 percent of the overall benefits of investments in climate change, clean energy and energy efficiency, clean transit, affordable and sustainable housing, training and workforce development, remediation and reduction of legacy pollution, and the development of critical clean water and wastewater infrastructure in disadvantaged communities that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution (The White House, 2022). The Justice40 Initiative recognizes that climate change mitigation and adaptation policies are deeply and structurally intertwined with issues of environmental justice and social equity, a framing advocated for by environmental and climate justice scholars (Burke & Stephens, 2018;Faber, 2008;Gilio-Whitaker, 2019;Holifield et al, 2009;Kojola & Pellow, 2020;Kuhl et al, 2023;McGregor et al, 2020;Rahman et al, 2023;Stephens, 2019;Sze, 2020;Vásquez-Fernández & Ahenakew pii tai poo taa, 2020).…”

“…(Sze,p.102) Recent academic scholarship in the field of environmental justice has argued that the environmental justice movement is at a crossroads, and that there is necessary soul-searching and recalibration that must occur (Pulido et al, 2016;Sze, 2020). Many environmental justice scholars argue that the environmental justice movement relies on the state for solutions to injustices that the state is not only complicit in, but actively works to uphold (Kojola & Pellow, 2020;Kuhl et al, 2023;Pulido et al, 2016). Other research highlights the difficult, but necessary work is done by environmental justice advocates inside state institutions that can make a difference in regulatory culture and community health, arguing for the state's potential for positive investments (Harrison, 2019).…”