JUST TRANSITION FOR AND FROM PEOPLES – Just transition is a concept constantly changing and genrating argument since its origin in unionism to this date. Numerous multilateral organisations have begun to employ it in a demagogic fashion, which hides false solutions or justifies the permanence of a development model leading to an unstoppable ecological collapse. …
GLOBAL NORTH AND GLOBAL SOUTH – Currently in an upward trend, Global South is a term sometimes employed in a contradictory and confusing manner. It is sometimes used to exclusively speak of the south geographically or to replace the term developing countries. In other occasions, it alludes to the most vulnerable communities, irrespective of their …
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM – Even when every person is affected by extreme climate events, not every individual has the ability to face and overcome them with the same ease. Historically exploited nations, discriminated against and excluded by socio-economic structures favouring small elites (generally, of white people), have been shown to be excessively vulnerable as they are …
SYSTEMIC CHANGE – The overwhelming evidence of the impact of climate change undoubtedly confirms the structural causes of the climate crisis. Capitalism–regarded as an economic and organisational system, global and institutionalised–is destroying life on Earth solely to make some achieve financial growth and wealth concentration. If we are to address the structural causes, a systemic …
The ecological debt is what countries from the North owes to the ones in the South. It is the North’s duty to our planet, considering that the Earth is being gradually destroyed as a result of production and consumption systems. Such environmental damage can be traced back to colonial times and is still increasing in …
IDPS AND CLIMATE REFUGEES – More frequent than ever, there is a growing number of people forced to migrate and change home and habitat due to disasters or abrupt climate change. They are known as environmental migrants or internationally displaced people (IDPs). All around the globe, there are people being affected by climate-related issues; …
Weather conditions have always been subject to change. Nonetheless, modern anthropogenic activity with its energy consumption pattern based on fossil fuels has fatally weakened the Earth’s system originating sudden, fast, and unforeseen changes in climate due to global warming. This collapse/crisis notion alludes to the unsustainability of human and nonhuman life on Earth caused by …
The Latin American and Caribbean Platform for Climate Justice launches next Wednesday, June 15, at 1 pm Brasília time (11 am in Quito and Bogotá), this publication that seeks to contribute to the understanding of peoples and promote concrete actions to climate justice. Presenters: Vandria BorariMarapajuba Collective of Popular Advocacy, Brazil Tom GoldtoothIndigenous Environmental Network, …
DECLARATION ON THE COP-26 OF THE GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO DEMAND CLIMATE JUSTICE – Signed by social movements and organized civil society organizations around the world, the collective declaration protests against the corporate capture of the Climate Conference in Glasgow. The Big Polluters used the summit to promote an “endless parade of false solutions, empty promises …
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Carbon markets are a fairytale. In this fantasy, everything in the world would be fine if Big Polluters bought credits to commit environmental crimes. Clearly, it is a strategy for avoiding accountability: trying to blur Big Polluters’ responsibility to reduce their emissions and the responsibility of governments around the world to enforce their national laws …
