Environmental justice generally, and climate justice in particular, are under-researched in the Israeli context. The initiated research, carried out by the Israeli Association of Environmental Justice, aims to develop indicators in two main areas.
One is the differentiated CO2 contribution of different socio-economic and ethnic groups in Israel, and building profiles of towns and cities in Israel in varied regions.
Pilot calculations related to the use of transportation and electricity indicate that Israeli belonging to the upper decile of the socio-economic ladder produce up to 26 times more CO2 than those belonging to the lowest decile.
The research fines tune the indicators to allow on-going comparisons of this nature in main fields of consumption: electricity use; transportation (public and private vehicles); the consumption of durable goods; food consumption; water; and solid waste production and treatment.