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The report, endorsed by over 200 civil society organisations and social movements, focusses on the now urgently needed phase out of fossil fuels, especially of fossil fuel extraction, and raises critical equity questions that arise in the context of this phaseout. To this end, the report features thirteen country profiles to demonstrate the diversity of challenges and opportunities in addressing fossil fuel production at the national as well as international level, and highlights real-world problems playing out in key countries and suggests an introductory framework for addressing “supply-side equity” issues relating to the phaseout of fossil fuel extraction, as well as a number of possible solutions including both national and international interventions. +
While the global majority disproportionately suffer the impacts of the climate crisis and the extractivist model, the Global North’s legacy of colonialism, the excess of the world’s wealthiest, and the power of large corporations are responsible for these interrelated crises.
The climate change mitigation commitments thus far made by countries in the Global North are wholly insufficient; not only in terms of emissions reductions, but in their failure to address the root causes of the crisis – systemic and intersecting inequalities and injustices. This failure to take inequality and injustice seriously can be seen in even the most ambitious models of climate mitigation.
This report sets out to explore the social and ecological implications of those models. +
Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, ideological underpinnings and limitations, he goes on to sketch out a radical alternative: a 'People's Green New Deal' committed to degrowth, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. +
The research report reviews the state of Africa’s forests and their carbon stocks, highlights the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in Africa, and recommends practices and policies to manage forest ecosystems to maximise their capacity as carbon sinks. +
The intersecting crises of income and wealth inequality and climate change, driven by systemic white supremacy and gender inequality, has exposed the frailty of the U.S. economy and democracy. This document was prepared during the COVID-19 pandemic which exacerbated these existing crises and underlying conditions. +
This book is part of a five-year multi-country inter-disciplinary research project entitled DEltas, vulnerabilities and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DEECMA) under the research programme Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) +
This briefing outlines how gender-responsive systems of social protection and the various tools and policies that they include can help to deliver a human-rights based approach to sustainable development, while minimising and addressing climate-induced loss and damage. +
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The publication provides a global historical critique of carbon trading, offsets, REDD+ and carbon taxes. This publication supports communities and organizations articulate crucial points to resist carbon pricing and climate change. +
This Issue Brief describes why in order to ensure that climate change solutions do not perpetuate injustice, policy design must be attentive to the connections between climate change and care work. Investment in high-quality jobs in the care sectors of our economy — childcare, residential care, and home healthcare, among others — is necessary for equitable access to the job opportunities in the clean energy sector, as a source of employment for those transitioning from the fossil fuel sectors, as green jobs themselves, and as a means to mitigate the inequities occurring as climate disasters hurt communities across the United States. +
This report unpacks the science behind “net zero” claims and how they are used to obscure climate inaction. It explores the new strategies to expand carbon offset markets, linked with new “net zero” demand for offsets. It also explains the roles played by various actors involved in the effort to “make offsetting great again”. These include less obvious players such as a few large mainstream conservation organisations, as well as the more obvious ones: the banks, the finance industry, and corporate interests behind maintaining the status quo of fossil fuel production and consumption. +
The paper provides an introduction to what climate change is and how it affects our work. It connects children’s rights and specifically girls’ rights to national level climate policies and their implications. It gives an in-depth exploration of 3 areas that are often excluded from global and national climate strategies and where Plan International can provide added value: education, the just transition to a green economy, and girls' voice and leadership. +
Several civil society organizations focused on climate justice have compiled a set of briefing papers to help government delegates, advocates, journalists and members of the public understand various topics being discussed at the climate change negotiations and their real world impacts.
The goal of the briefs is to connect some of the ideas and energy of the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia (April 2010) with issues on the table at the UN climate talks. +
South Africa has a tradition of charterist politics. From African Claims, to the Freedom Charter and now our Constitution, which is a charter of rights, freedoms, institutions and procedures. However, in more recent times, in the context of climate crisis politics, people driven instruments as expressions of working class and popular power are also gaining a lot of significance. As democrats we are putting forward our demands, aspirations and alternatives to build a society that can mitigate and endure climate change. +
This paper draws on substantial evidence showing the region’s exposure to extreme climate-related events such as floods, droughts and cyclones as well as unprecedented rainfall and temperature variations. Case studies show that extreme weather events are impacting communities economically and socially due to environmental losses, damage to infrastructure and erosion of livelihoods with consequences for human rights and social justice in the region +
This paper places attention on the role of environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) and indigenous peoples who have been playing a crucial role in opposing development projects threatening the environment, while also being exposed to ill-informed adaptation and mitigation measures; on national human rights institutions which hold immense potential in linking the human rights and climate change agendas; and on the youth who propel the movement forward in Thailand, combining creativity and knowledge. +
Transparency International’s innovative Climate & Corruption Atlas draws on global cases of corruption in climate finance. +
The study finds that people’s livelihoods in South Asia are being devastated by intense flooding, chronic drought, sea-level rise and changing weather patterns. As local coping mechanisms fail, people are forced to migrate to survive and make an alternative living to feed their families. Governments are unprepared to deal with the issue as they have not yet recognised how climate impacts are affecting internal migration trends. As a result, they have not developed appropriate policies to avert, minimise and address the issue. +
Series of Creative Climate Chats – conversations with leading thinkers in culture and climate for discussions covering the just transition, new economics for a regenerative economy, the net zero carbon challenge, and climate justice. +
The Creative Climate Justice Hub is a dynamic library of climate justice resources curated for the arts and culture community.
The Creative Climate Justice Hub is for artists and cultural practitioners who want to understand the systemic causes of the climate crisis, how it intersects with issues of social, economic and environmental injustice and how arts and culture is responding creatively.
Creative Climate Justice Guide: https://juliesbicycle.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Creative-Climate-Justice-Final.pdf +
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Learning from the COP26 evaluation project
This report describes key lessons from the learning cohort, and case studies of each organisation’s work. The findings should benefit other NGOs, campaign groups and organisations, especially those working towards COP27 who could be inspired to do more in the public engagement arena. +