Grace Ineza Umuhoza Shares her Top Recommendations on Climate Change
To support our mission to confront climate change through facilitating access to knowledge, we invited Grace Ineza Umuhoza to share her top five publications on the subject matter. Grace is an impact-driven eco-feminist who is interested in developing community solutions in the fight towards climate justice. She is a researcher who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Water and Environment Engineering from the University of Rwanda. Her research focuses on loss and damage responses in developing countries and through her interest in this area, she co founded and coordinates the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition. Grace also serves as the CEO of The Green Fighter, a youth-led environmental organisation championing youth contribution to the protection of the environment in Rwanda.
Here are her recommendations!
Parable of the Sower
By Octavia E Butler
This is a fiction book that offers clear insight into the vulnerability of our planet and the reality of social injustice from an African perspective. After leading a disturbed life, a woman decided to save herself and her community by employing sustainability principles towards the realisation of a healthy planet.
All We Can Save, Truth, Courage and the Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Edited By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K Wilkinson
The book contains lived experiences of women and girls offering climate solutions. One of my favourite lines from the book is “The entire span of human life exists within each of us, we are the living conduit to all life.’’ This reiterates the fact that protecting mother nature and its people is crucial, and it is a trait embedded within us.
What We Know About Climate Change
By Kerry Emanuel
This book breaks down the scientific reality of what we know about the climate crisis by explaining its root cause. It offers a perspective on how the climate crisis should be treated with solidarity as this is the best way to achieve justice, especially for those who have contributed less to the crisis. The book also touches on moral and historical responsibility around the climate crisis, using scientific facts.
A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism
By Marvin T Brown
The book thoroughly examines environmentalism in the context of broader ethical concerns, and places the environmental movement at the centre of social and political philosophy. It also links environmental ethics to more general normative issues that are widespread, including social justice.
Addressing Loss and Damage| practical insights for tackling multidimensional risk in LDCs and SIDs
By Simon Addison, Ritu Bharadwaj, Anna Carthy, et al.
Loss and Damage is more pronounced in our generation, but there are a series of actions, and initiatives, especially from the marginalized community, which offer “homegrown solutions” in protecting the planet and its people. The book contains practical solutions that help us understand what actions and decisions to take in order to address loss and damage.
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