The Coronavirus pandemic has emphasised how prevalent health, social, economic and environmental inequalities facing BAME people are across the globe.
Achieving environmental and climate justice cannot be done without tackling systemic racism.
According to leading activists, coronavirus and the global uprising against police brutality have highlighted how racial inequalities can dramatically impact a range of important issues, including environmental justice.
Increasingly, experts and protesters have highlighted how racial injustice is the common denominator across a range of issues such as police violence as well as environmental and health inequalities which are linked to COVID-19.
As Black Lives Matter protests continue across the globe, they have become a wider movement for racial justice, recognising that systemic racism denies people of colour, and in particular Black people, equal access to economic, social, environmental and climate justice, as well as health equity, political power, civil rights and human rights.
- To find out more about this subject, read: https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/ej-principles.pdf