Resumen
Climate change exacerbates violence. Inaction, resistance, and some responses can have violent and unjust consequences for some groups. Climate violence is a framework developed and utilised jointly by the Disrupting Violence Beacon and Climate Action Beacons from Griffith University and RaouI Wallenberg Institute. The framework examines the intersections of climate change and gender-based violence (including coercive control), migration (forced and voluntary), human rights violations, technology use and development, justice, and questions of sovereignty. Less visible intersections can also be understood through the climate violence framework. For example, female environmental activists are silenced through threats and use of violence when defending the environment with First Nations women more likely to be impacted.This paper outlines the climate violence framework. The advantage of using the term climate violence over terms such as climate justice or climate change is that the term draws attention to the harm caused, rather than obscuring damage, and therefore responsibility. The gendered nature of climate violence needs to be framed within the wider context of mass violence against women and girls. Children are also disproportionately impacted by climate change and, therefore, need to be acknowledged as a separate group of victims of climate violence. Conceptualising the impacts of climate change as an act of violence allows for different responses to be formed. This recognises that inaction can accelerate violence but also acts in response to climate change both to resist and to mitigate can exacerbate or even start new forms of violence. The use of climate violence as a framework offers the opportunity to critically reframe climate change, disrupt patriarchal and siloed approaches to climate change and its socio-political impacts. This can shift notions of responsibility, offering opportunities for those causing violence to be held accountable on local, state and global levels.\ \
Palabras Clave (separar con comas)
Climate Change, Gender-based Violence, Violence, Gender, Social Action, Human Rights, Technology, Inequality, Oppression