Transformative Transitional Justice And Climate Action: Nurturing Synergies For Climate Justice
In the face of rapidly escalating but unevenly distributed harms, global climate governance is struggling to prevent catastrophic warming while addressing growing demands for climate justice. This paper proposes transformative transitional justice as a lens through which to identify two…
Local Transitional Justice Practices For Climate Justice: The Case Of Nkhulambe, Malawi
This report applies a transformative transitional justice lens to the numerous climate actions designed and implemented by residents of Nkhulambe, a community in Malawi heavily affected by climate change. Typically used to deal with gross human rights abuses, transitional justice…
Transformative Transitional Justice For Climate Justice: Lessons From Practice
In 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…
Active Public Participation: The Key To Effective Climate Action At The Municipal Level
The 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…
Floods, Fragility, And Forgotten Lives: A Call For Climate Justice In South Africa
The torrential rains, gale-force winds, and even snowfall that battered the Eastern Cape in June 2025 unleashed catastrophic flooding, displacing over 4,700 people and affecting more than 6,800 households. Those willing to confront the truth must admit that these floods…
