A Just Transition is a Post-extractive Transition

Resource type

Reports

Resource link

https://waronwant.org/sites/default/files/Post-Extractivist Transition WEB 0.pdf

Author or organization

War on Want London Mining NetworkProperty "Author" has a restricted application area and cannot be used as annotation property by a user.

Funded by

Yes to Life No to Mining global network

Date published

2019

Key themes

Extractivism

Geographical focus

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Summary

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.