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Bookmark or Share- 5 Black heroes of the environmental movement - The World Economic ForumIn June 2020, 25 Black environmental leaders published an open letter calling for an end to the ‘systemic and pervasive racism within the environmental field’. They called for an end to negative narratives around Black people and their relationship with nature in the US, Europe and Africa and listed solutions to eradicate racism, from ...
- What is environmental racism and how can we fight it?The case of Flint, Michigan, is a prime example of environmental racism. In 2014, to save money, the city changed its water source to the Flint river, but failed to treat the new supply adequately, exposing the city’s 100,000 majority-black inhabitants to dangerous levels of lead from ageing pipes and other contaminants such as E.coli.
- A brief history of racism in healthcare | World Economic ForumResearchers say that history shows this practice could represent an implicit bias, discrimination, and racism, and masks economic and environmental factors. The 'Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male' used 600 Black men.
- Racism and racial injustice | World Economic ForumThe World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan or national interests.
- Great Reset: 3 steps to a fair, inclusive and sustainable future ...In her introductory remarks in the Championing Social Justice session, Laura Weidman Powers, Head of Impact at Echoing Green, described how “several stakeholders working towards the Sustainable Development Goals are wrestling with the intersection of social justice and social impact and asking questions on how to activate the right levers internally, how to think about a social justice ...
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