in contrast north america with percent of events experienced percent of fatalities similarly the solutions employed to address climate change whether technologybased or not have differing impacts for different groups of people social issues cannot be disassociated from their ecological context and environmental repercussions the chapter thus explores the role and scope of ecosocial policies in addressing climate change and other forms of largescale environmental degradation in conjunction with social justice issues drawing on different country and city examples from the global north and the global south