KIN Climate Justice Handbook launched
Published on 30 March 2026
Since September 2024, NIOD has been involved in the research programme ‘Accelerating Just Transitions in Urban Regions (ACT)’, a consortium programme funded by the Dutch Climate Research Initiative (KIN). NIOD researcher Dat Nguyen is the coordinator of Work Package 1 on the theme of climate justice. Within this work package, researchers from NIOD, UMC Utrecht and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) are focusing on how climate justice can be defined and how it can be implemented in policy and practice. The handbook is one of the key outputs of the work package.
Climate Justice Handbook
The Climate Justice Handbook, developed as part of the ACT work programme of the Climate Research Initiative Netherlands (KIN), offers practical guidance for anyone involved in climate transitions who wishes to apply climate justice in their daily work.
Climate justice means that we deal with the consequences of climate change in a fair manner – or at least as fairly as possible. This is important because climate change affects us all, but some groups more severely than others. We see this inequality reflected in the consequences of climate change, for example in terms of health or livelihood security. This inequality is either exacerbated or mitigated depending on how equity is incorporated into policy and implementation. For instance, we know that the poorest neighbourhoods are often the hottest; in many local authorities, sustainability grants only reach population groups who face no barriers to applying for them; and mould problems, fuelled in part by more extreme rainfall, occur far more frequently in neighbourhoods with many poorly maintained (social) rental properties.
The Climate Justice Handbook is a free download. More information about the handbook and the programme can be found on the Climate Research Initiative Netherlands (KIN) website.