The access to a healthy environment and to natural resources is unevenly distributed between countries and among the inhabitants of countries. This leads to conflicts over environmental issues including resource extraction, the locations of production sites, or waste disposal.
Theme
Civil society organizations (CSOs) active in Environmental Justice issues focus on the link between the need for environmental security and the defence of basic human rights. Their main goal is to empower the communities they support to defend or reclaim their rights.
Specific contribution by SERI
SERI supports the work through various activities. Quite persice it was involved in the EJOLT project, which broght together a consortium of 23 academic and civil society organizations across a range of fields to promote collaboration and mutual learning among stakeholders who research or use Sustainability Sciences, particularly on aspects of Ecological Distribution. Generally SERI work towards strong sustainable consumption, degrowth and sufficiency aims to reduce environmental burden especially from those suffering most under in-just conditions.
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