Climate Justice: Contributions from Latin American Environmental Sociology

Abstract

Understanding the global climate situation necessitates a debate on the topic of climate justice. The reflection produced by the peoples who suffered from colonialism/developing countries is crucial, as their relationship with environmental impacts and climate change, in general, differs from that of developed countries that greatly benefited from colonialism. From this perspective, the work aims to relate environmental justice with considerations from Latin American environmental sociology and its possible contributions to building a broader perspective on combating climate change by expanding the scope of analysis. The goal is to think about the origins of conflicts and which groups are most affected in a brief analysis, considering the limitations of the study’s scope. For this purpose, exploratory and qualitative analyses were used to construct a textual corpus that substantiates the debate within the temporal and material limitations of the paper.