The Climate Justice Legal Project (CJLP) is an innovative partnership between the Federation of Community Legal Centres, the Climate Council and Environmental Justice Australia.
Join this webinar that with launch the Disaster Legal Toolkit, containing guidance to help not-for-profit organisations navigate disaster-related legal questions and issues.
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Justice Connect delivers services that assist both people and not-for-profit organisations. Those we assist often struggle to navigate the law, are unable to use the law in their daily lives and disproportionately experience the impacts of harsh and unjust laws. We aim to solve legal problems to help prevent the negative impacts on people’s lives and organisations and empower the community to use the law as a force for good.
Specialist experts to drive local action
Funded by the Australian Government through the Future Drought Fund and delivered by the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR), the FRRR Expertise Pool is a vetted network of seasoned and highly-experienced consultants from around the country with a proven track record of working in collaboration with community organisations to achieve their mission and build their resilience.
Access tailored support for your organisational needs
Benefolk Expert Bar provides on-demand organisational support and capacity building for your organisation, a little like Telehealth.
Resources for people living and working in communities impacted by, or at risk of, disasters.
Community Legal Centres, or CLCs, are independent community organisations that provide free legal services to those who need it. CLCs enable a strong collective voice for justice and equality.
In this webinar, Dr. Bronwyn Lay presents the findings of a literature review which explores how access to justice, climate justice and disaster justice are related and can be more closely aligned. This review presents research on how climate change impacts create new justice challenges, as well as new challenges for law and integrated practice.
Meeting legal needs and access to justice is vital for community outcomes in climate change adaptation and disaster resilience. However, the preconditions of accessing justice are changing due to climatic impacts and systemic transformation is needed. Community Legal Centres across Australia and Victoria are adapting to challenges of organisational response as well meeting the changing legal needs in impacted communities.
In this webinar, Dr. Bronwyn Lay presents the findings of a literature review which explores how access to justice, climate justice and disaster justice are related and can be more closely aligned. This review presents research on how climate change impacts create new justice challenges, as well as new challenges for law and integrated practice.
The webinar explores how to identify injustice in communities’ experience of extreme weather events, as well as build the enablers of access to justice into disaster and climate change responses. The webinar also presents the learnings and case studies of community legal centres as they face increasing climate change impacts and work towards holistic transformations.
Read the full Climate Change Impacts on Access to Justice – Literature Review (2023)
Presenter
Dr. Bronwyn Lay
Strategic Lead of the Climate Justice Support Unit
Federation of Community Legal Centres Victoria
Community Connector for Resilience works to support communities by connecting diverse people and organisations focused on building disaster and climate change resilience to enable sharing knowledge and learning.
Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation is pleased to host and seed fund Community Connector for Resilience.