MediaVideosClimate Change, climate justice, Transitional JusticeVideo: Rethinking Climate JusticeClimate justice is at a turning point. While some of the world’s major emitters are stepping back from climate commitments, communities that have contributed least to climate change are suffering some of its most severe impacts. These impacts often intersect with or exacerbate other existing conflicts, violence, and socio-economic or political marginalisation, further intensifying vulnerabilities of local populations. In response,… Read More CSVRJune 23, 2026
PublicationsResearchClimate Change, Public Participation, Reparations, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsTransformative Transitional Justice and Climate Action: Nurturing Synergies for Climate JusticeIn the face of rapidly escalating but unevenly distributed harms, global climate governance is struggling to prevent catastrophic warming while addressing growing demands for climate justice. This paper proposes transformative transitional justice as a lens through which to identify two sources of climate justice action: elements of justice latent within climate policy architectures, and community justice actions too often overlooked… Read More Jasmina Brankovic and Samuel SontagJune 5, 2026
PublicationsResearchClimate Change, Public Participation, Transitional JusticeLocal Transitional Justice Practices for Climate Justice: The Case of Nkhulambe, MalawiThis report applies a transformative transitional justice lens to the numerous climate actions designed and implemented by residents of Nkhulambe, a community in Malawi heavily affected by climate change. Typically used to deal with gross human rights abuses, transitional justice is an established field of theory and practice that is designed to acknowledge the truth of past harms, provide redress… Read More Jasmina BrankovicApril 27, 2026
Climate JusticePublicationsResearchClimate Change, climate justice, Public Participation, Reparations, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsTransformative Transitional Justice for Climate Justice: Lessons from PracticeIn 2025, two South African communities created the first explicitly transitional justice process for climate harms. Emphasising the experiences and solutions of residents directly affected by climate change, the process was also novel in using a transformative approach to transitional justice. Participants developed measures that demonstrate a more comprehensive way of conceptualising the effects of climate change – as a… Read More Jasmina BrankovicFebruary 13, 2026
Climate JusticePolicyPublicationsClimate Change, climate justice, Public ParticipationActive Public Participation: The Key to Effective Climate Action at the Municipal LevelThe people most affected by climate change are the ones who best understand the problems they face. They see solutions that experts living outside their communities might not – what will work, what will not, and why. At the municipal level, affected communities are essential to developing effective policies and actions to deal with climate impacts. Their active participation in… Read More Jasmina BrankovicNovember 26, 2025
ArticlesMediaClimate Change, climate justice, Human Rights, InequalitiesFloods, fragility, and forgotten lives: A call for climate justice in South AfricaThe torrential rains, gale-force winds, and even snowfall that battered the Eastern Cape in June 2025 unleashed catastrophic flooding, displacing over 4,700 people and affecting more than 6,800 households. Those willing to confront the truth must admit that these floods are not merely environmental events but a profound human rights crisis. They expose the fury of nature and the consequences… Read More Gugu NonjingeAugust 26, 2025
