Climate justice requires a just transition from fossil fuels to clean energy that addresses energy poverty and protects marginalized communities disproportionately impacted by environmental harms.

“Climate Justice ensures that the Injustice of the climate crisis meaning that those have benefited from fossil fuels for years and decades that the Injustice that was caused upon their community that is being caused upon their community that they can find Justice”

The climate crisis cannot be resolved unless the process centers on people, specifically indigenous communities, local populations, and those most impacted by climate change.

“For me that's everything because in that coded in that is that we have to center people. We have to center indigenous people, local communities, those who are most affected.”

Mikaela Loach argues that historically high-emitting countries have a moral and practical obligation to provide climate finance for loss and damage in the global south.

“So loss and damage is basically saying we need to pay for the things that have been lost and the things that have been damaged and we need to give the countries that need that finance that finance and that should be coming from those countries that have historically caused the most harm.”