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Bookmark or Share- What is environmental racism and how can we fight it?Environmental racism is a planet-wide problem. Globalization has increased the opportunity for environmental racism on an international scale. It refers to the dumping of pollutants such as e-waste on the global south, where safety laws and environmental practices are more lax. More than 44 million tonnes of e-waste was generated globally in ...
- Racism has a physical impact on the body – here’s howSystemic Racism. The Effects of Race project has shown that racism has a negative impact on health, through physical violence, and mental health. Epigenetics is the study of non-genetic influences on gene behaviour, including stress. It has shown that factors such as childhood experience within society can largely impact adult life.
- Peter Beech - Agenda Contributor | 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.
- 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 ...
- How corporations can create an environmental justice policyEnvironmental justice policy for corporates. A five-step planning process can match business capabilities with societal needs. The components of such a process include: 1. Acknowledgement. Today’s companies did not exist at the time when slavery was introduced in America nor for most of the country’s history.
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