Climate Justice Resource Explorer

This interactive explorer draws together insights from two comprehensive analyses examining how communities, organisations, and researchers across Oceania understand climate justice and envision pathways toward a just climate future by 2050.

The first analysis reviewed 98 resources from 86 organisations working on climate justice across Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. These include First Nations organisations, advocacy groups, government initiatives, legal organisations, community groups, and academic institutions. The second analysis examined 77 academic papers exploring climate justice definitions, pathways, and implementation across the region.

Together, these resources reveal a landscape where Indigenous leadership is central (79% of resources explicitly centre Indigenous communities and perspectives), where there is strong consensus on foundational principles, and where diverse communities are developing concrete pathways to climate justice. The analysis identifies both mature frameworks and critical gaps, particularly in representing Pacific Islands perspectives, workers and unions, disability justice, and rural communities.

The visualisations below explore this rich landscape of climate justice work, revealing patterns in how different actors define justice, what pathways they propose, whose voices are centred, and where geographic gaps remain. Navigate through each section to understand the current state of climate justice thinking and practice across Oceania.

Of the resources analysed, - provide explicit definitions of climate justice. These definitions reveal both convergence and diversity in how different actors conceptualise climate justice. While there is broad alignment on core principles - equity, participation, recognition of historical injustice- different communities emphasise different dimensions based on their specific contexts and struggles.

Academic researchers and practitioners understand climate justice as multi-dimensional, requiring simultaneous action across procedural justice (fair decision-making where affected communities have real power), distributive justice (fair sharing of climate impacts, costs, and benefits), recognition justice (respecting different communities, identities, and knowledge systems), restorative justice (addressing and repairing past harms), and epistemic justice (valuing whose knowledge counts, particularly Indigenous ways of knowing).

Below you can explore how different organisations and researchers define climate justice in their work:

Select a Pathway on the left to filter the resources. Then, click on a Resource to see the ribbons highlight the specific Tools it recommends on the right. Click outside the labels to reset.