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The paper shows how gendered collective agency among displaced Rohingya shapes climate justice by highlighting women’s environmental roles, community resilience, and grassroots action, arguing that supporting local knowledge and solidarity is vital for equitable, sustainable futures.

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This paper examines how gendered collective agency within Rohingya displacement settings shapes emerging pathways toward climate justice and transformative futures. Although Rohingya communities in Bangladesh face overlapping crises from environmental fragility and recurrent climate-induced hazards to protracted statelessness and restricted mobility, grassroots practices of solidarity and everyday coping strategies are generating alternative visions of progress that challenge dominant humanitarian and state-led narratives. Climate justice debates often frame refugee populations as passive victims of environmental vulnerability; however, a closer look at gendered roles, informal leadership, and community-driven initiatives reveals a more dynamic landscape of resilience and political possibility. Drawing on secondary literature, the analysis highlights how Rohingya women, despite structural constraints, have begun to mobilize around environmental risks, water scarcity, sustainable energy use, and community well-being. Their involvement in informal advocacy, mutual aid networks, and social learning circles demonstrates the potential of gendered collective action to reconfigure relationships with humanitarian actors and strengthen community adaptability in the face of intensifying climate pressures. Men and youth also contribute to this collective environmental governance through volunteer groups, disaster preparedness activities, and participatory risk mapping. These localised practices not only mitigate immediate climate impacts but also articulate broader claims to dignity, rights, and future-making. By connecting gender, displacement, and climate justice, the paper shows how Rohingya women’s grassroots agency shapes visions of equitable and inclusive futures, arguing that supporting gendered collective action is vital for climate justice frameworks that prioritise the lived realities of marginalized displaced communities.