Climate Justice for Informal Workers: An Action Research in Jaipur, Rajasthan examines how climate change is intensifying the vulnerabilities faced by informal workers in Jaipur, including construction labourers, sanitation workers, waste pickers, street vendors, and daily wage earners. Based on surveys with 402 workers and focus group discussions across ten informal settlements, the study documents the growing impacts of extreme heat, erratic rainfall, flooding, water scarcity, and poor urban infrastructure on livelihoods, health, housing, and social wellbeing.

The report highlights how climate risks intersect with existing inequalities linked to caste, gender, migration, and poverty. Informal workers face insecure employment, limited access to social protection, unsafe working conditions, rising debt, and inadequate access to water, sanitation, healthcare, and housing. Women and caste-marginalised communities are shown to bear disproportionate burdens, particularly in sanitation work, caregiving, and access to public services.

Framed through the lens of climate justice and a Just Transition, the publication argues that climate adaptation must go beyond infrastructure and place workers’ rights, dignity, and participation at the centre of urban climate policy. It concludes with policy recommendations focused on social protection, climate-resilient livelihoods, occupational safety, housing, and inclusive governance to build more equitable and resilient cities.