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Race, gender, economic inequalities and socio-geographical locationality are intersectional injustices that leave least developed countries (LDCs) facing existential threats that are disproportionate to emissions. Despite accounting for 1% of total world CO2 in 2019, LDCs bore 69% of worldwide deaths caused by climate-related disasters since 1950. The destruction of global climate systems, from ocean ecosystem diversity to the Arctic, and loss of local ecological wealth, including mangroves, forests and land, disproportionately affect those who are not endowed with the capital to buffer the impacts of climate changes. There arises, therefore, an urgent need to repair those ecosystems ravaged by climate change.
While adaptation and mitigation are the primary focus of climate interventions, a third priority is repairing the very ecosystems that sustain life on earth. This interactive panel explores the importance of climate repair in conversations of climate reparations and how sustainability transitions can play a role in advancing them.
