The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) was founded by Steve Trent and Juliette Williams in 1999, set up as a trust in 2000, and became a registered charity in English and Wales in 2001. They work worldwide in London, Bath, Germany, Liberia, Thailand, Taiwan, and the Netherlands. Their main mission is to secure a world where the natural world can sustain (and be sustained by) the communities that depend upon it for their fundamental needs and rights. They focus on the idea that the resources provided by the environment are universal and should not be restricted to certain populations.
Aside from their mission, they also run campaigns across five key campaigns such as the ocean, wildlife and biodiversity, climate, forests, and cotton. Their ocean campaign aims to protect marine ecosystems and livelihood, since it is a primary source of food and income for almost 3.5 billion people on the planet. The EJF is working to protect marine life, put an end to illegal fishing, and abolish human rights abuse driven by illegal fishing. The wildlife and biodiversity campaign calls to end wildlife markets to prevent any new viruses from spreading.
The climate campaign strives to solve the issue of climate change and the negative effects that come from it; such as refugees that need to flee their homes due to rapidly rising temperatures. EJF’s forest campaign protects the forests that provide food, shelter, and fuel for almost 1.6 billion people around the world. Finally, according to the EJF, the cotton campaign aims to “reduce the human and environmental costs of cotton production, expose human rights abuses, pesticide misuse, water shortages, and call for supply-chain transparency.
