Climate justice: implications for social work in Brazil

This article discusses the relationship between poverty and disasters, highlighting the climate injustice that affects Brazilians and refugees in the country. The article collects and analyzes secondary data from documents and literature on the role of social workers in emergencies caused by climate impacts in contemporary Brazil. It also examines documents and data from national and international indicator monitoring platforms. It analyzes the intersection between economic and social policy, considering disasters as social and anthropogenic phenomena, and proposes strengthening social work in the face of risks based on a socioeconomic and environmental diagnosis. The results indicate the need for objective and preventive responses because social work is still mostly emergency related and lacks the technical apparatus to mitigate risks. This gap aggravates such challenges as internal migration driven by the impacts of climate change in Brazil.