Climate JusticePublicationsResearchClimate Change, climate justice, Public Participation, Reparations, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsTransformative Transitional Justice for Climate Justice: Lessons from PracticeIn 2025, two South African communities created the first explicitly transitional justice process for climate harms. Emphasising the experiences and solutions of residents directly affected by climate change, the process was also novel in using a transformative approach to transitional justice. Participants developed measures that demonstrate a more comprehensive way of conceptualising the effects of climate change – as a… Read More Jasmina BrankovicFebruary 13, 2026
Climate JusticePolicyPublicationsClimate Change, climate justice, Public ParticipationActive Public Participation: The Key to Effective Climate Action at the Municipal LevelThe people most affected by climate change are the ones who best understand the problems they face. They see solutions that experts living outside their communities might not – what will work, what will not, and why. At the municipal level, affected communities are essential to developing effective policies and actions to deal with climate impacts. Their active participation in… Read More Jasmina BrankovicNovember 26, 2025
ArticlesClimate JusticeMediaClimate Change, Transitional JusticeTransformative Transitional Justice: How Old Tools Could Open New Avenues for Climate JusticeApril 2024 was the eleventh consecutive month to break heat records. With that news, the world is faced with the reality that global surface temperatures have already surpassed, even if temporarily, 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels – the benchmark agreed on in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Yet, the international climate negotiations continue to stall and the progress made so far… Read More Jasmina Brankovic and Augustine NjamnshiMay 29, 2024
Climate JusticePublicationsResearchCivil Society, Climate Change, Public Participation, Transitional Justice, Victim AwarenessTransitional and Climate Justice: New Opportunities for Justice in TransitionIn this editorial, Senior Research Specialist Jasmina Brankovic draws on her scholarly work on transitional justice and climate change as well as her practitioner experiences with the ‘unfinished business’ of South Africa’s political transition to propose that the intersection between transitional justice and climate justice – particularly the transformative turn in both – presents new opportunities for imagining and enacting… Read More Jasmina BrankovicJuly 7, 2023
Climate JusticePolicyPublicationsResearchClimate Change, Transitional JusticeClimate Focused Transitional JusticeThe Covid-19 pandemic has created human suffering on a global scale, but also a window of opportunity to rethink how we live, work and play. For the time being, calls for a green recovery that builds back better by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, protecting the environment and creating a fairer, more equitable society have become commonplace. This could help to… Read More Jasmina Brankovic, Augustine Njamnshi and Christoph SchwarteJuly 14, 2021
Climate JusticePublicationsResearchClimate Change, Transitional JusticeThe Global Climate Regime and Transitional JusticeGeopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy. Mechanisms and insights from transitional justice have been used in over thirty countries across a range of conflicts at the interface of historical responsibility and imperatives for collective futures. However, lessons from transitional justice theory and practice have not been… Read More Jasmina BrankovicOctober 2, 2018
