Factoring in racial justice

Thilagawathi Abi Deivanayagam of Lancaster University, UK, and colleagues from the UK, Brazil, Uganda, Philippines and Spain, used a multi-method approach to investigate the interactions of climate change and health with structural discrimination. The results of their scoping review highlight the disproportionate burden of climate change health impacts on minoritized groups, and reveal a lack of discussion of the unequal responsibility of climate change. The scientists therefore visualized both climate responsibility and unequal health outcomes related to heat death, disease and nutrition, and further use case studies, testimony and policy analysis to highlight pathways through which climate change health and discrimination interact.