RECAST: REframing Climate Action as Social JusTice

While the climate crisis is a global phenomenon, its social impacts deepen existing inequalities, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. These groups, including low-income communities, people of colour, indigenous populations, individuals with disabilities, the elderly, and women, are particularly vulnerable to climate risks such as storms, floods, wildfires, heatwaves, poor air quality, and limited access to food and water. Despite this, the dominant focus on predictive natural sciences and climate modelling often overlooks these societal inequities. This trajectory is expected to worsen unless we actively cultivate an intersectional and multidisciplinary understanding of climate justice.

Through two online workshops, RECAST aims to provide a platform for collective learning, addressing key terms, concepts, language, and tools to reframe the narrative around the climate emergency and social justice. The insights gathered were utilised to create a short, animated film aimed at raising awareness among experts, policymakers, and the general public on the urgent need for social justice in the climate crisis.