Climate Justice
Who emitted, who pays, and who decides. The history and politics of a crisis that arrived in Lagos from somewhere else. What a fair response looks like.
Start Lesson 01Course outline
- 01
A short history of emissions
Two centuries of carbon, mapped against who got rich from it.
Read - 02
Who pays for the damage
Loss, damage and adaptation finance. What was promised and what arrived.
Read - 03
Justice inside Nigeria
Why the flood finds the most vulnerable streets first. Vulnerability is built, not natural.
Read - 04
Nigerian climate policy
What the state has committed to and how to hold it to that.
Read - 05
Making the case
Capstone: argue a climate justice position with data from CY-102.
Read
What you leave with
You can make the justice case for Nigeria with evidence, not slogans.
- Which countries are historically responsible?Carbon Brief ↗
The cumulative emissions ledger from lesson 1, mapped and sourced.
- Country IndexND-GAIN ↗
The vulnerability rankings behind 'most exposed'. Find Nigeria yourself.
- CO2 emissions per capitaOur World in Data ↗
The per-person gap from lesson 1. Two clicks to the justice argument.