Yeampierre began by focusing on the difference between climate change and climate justice. While the climate change movement has always focused on reducing carbon, the climate justice movement is more intersectional and led by frontline communities most impacted by carbon co-pollutants, vulnerable to recurrent extreme weather events, and least responsible for contributing to climate change. She noted how health disparities, caused by fossil-fuel driven development, have made the same communities at high risk for COVID-19, and the pandemic has renewed the importance of fighting for the right to breathe.