Thousands around the world are holding mobilizations in time for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), a once-in-a-decade gathering of governments held under the auspices of the United Nations to agree on international responses to urgent finance issues. Movements, civil society groups, communities and publics are mobilizing in 41 countries, in 149 cities, towns, and districts from June 27th to June 29th.
The global actions are calling for a transformation of the international financial system, as well as immediate demands such as debt cancellation, wealth taxes, and the delivery of climate finance. Movements and civil society groups are challenging Global North governments and the UN system to take the lead in bridging the development and climate finance gap, estimated to be in the trillions. A core part of this is financial reparations for historical and continuing injustices inflicted by the Global North on the peoples of the Global South.
According to Jean Saldanha, director of EURODAD: “The global financial architecture is dominated by rich countries and not responsive to the needs and priorities of the global south. It is in the interest of all of us, in the global south and north, to build a Financing for Development system that reduces inequality, provides stability and ensures adequate public finance for climate change. Yet the global north has chosen to defend an unjust status quo instead of seizing this opportunity to advance essential reforms that would give the global south a seat at the decision-making table. We in civil society will continue to demand this reform, before, in and after Sevilla.”
Civil society organizations and movements are reiterating the urgent demand for debt cancellation and calling for a UN Framework Convention on Debt Convention to pave the way for a democratic, multilateral and transparent mechanism to address unsustainable and illegitimate debt. They assert that it is vital to move away from creditor-dominated forums that have failed to prevent and resolve the accumulation of unsustainable and illegitimate debts, and have resulted in debt relief schemes that protect creditor interests. In 2022, developing countries paid USD 49 billion more to their external creditors than they received in fresh disbursements.
UN Member States are also being challenged by civil society to support and ensure a robust outcome from the negotiations for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, in order to effectively address international tax abuse, avoidance and evasion especially by multinational corporations and elites, which are resulting in losses in public revenues of at least USD 492 billion a year. Similarly, there is strong clamor for wealth taxes to help mobilize the trillions needed for sustainable development and climate action.
Dereje Alemayehu, executive coordinator of Global Alliance for Tax Justice, said: “The international tax system is broken. Developed by the ‘rich countries’ club’ of the OECD, it has failed to deliver the resources urgently needed for public services, development, human rights, gender equality, and climate justice. Tax abuse by the rich and multinational corporations has instead taken these resources, deepening the debt crisis faced by so many of our countries. Now, a historic process is underway as countries will meet in August to begin negotiations on a UN Tax Convention. We expect all UN Member States to negotiate in good faith to deliver a robust Framework Convention and two early protocols.”
In addition to debt service payments and tax abuse, developing countries’ public coffers are being depleted by climate disasters. Developed countries that have historically caused the climate crisis are legally obligated by the UN Climate Convention to cover the costs of climate mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage and just transition in developing countries. Although developed countries have long claimed that they lack the public funds for climate finance, research has shown they can raise trillions by taxing polluters and profiteers, redirecting fossil fuel subsidies, and redistributing even just a fraction of their enormous military budgets. Civil society organizations and climate activities emphasize that climate finance must be delivered in the form of public, predictable, grants-based finance, instead of loans that will only exacerbate the already unsustainable debt crises in the developing world.
Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network International, said: “The world is on fire – and the systems meant to protect us are feeding the flames. The intersecting crises of debt, climate collapse, and inequality are not abstractions — they are lived realities for people in the Global South, every single day. While governments dither and elites profit, it’s up to us to raise the alarm and demand justice. We will not stand by while wealth is siphoned from our communities, our land, our labour, to line the pockets of corporations and the ultra-rich. We will not be silenced.”
Aid cuts recently announced by the US, UK, and other Global North governments will also make it much harder for developing countries to address immediate financial needs arising from the multiple crises and undertake systems wide changes for a rapid, equitable and just transition to sustainable and climate resilient societies. Civil society groups are denouncing the cuts and asserting that aid must not be seen as charity but rather part of the reparations owed to the South.
Lidy Nacpil, the coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, said: “What our world needs is a massive transfer of resources from North to South, as part of the reparations we are owed for historical injustice. For centuries, the people of the Global South have been exploited and our natural resources have been plundered–all to enrich the elites and governments of the Global North. Their enormous wealth was accumulated at the expense of our people and planet, and it is past time for them to pay up for the damage they’ve done.”
The different protest actions denounce the Global North governments for spending trillions on subsidies for fossil fuels, on wars and genocide, on militarization and domestic authoritarian operations while failing to deliver their financial obligations.
Bronwen Tucker, public finance lead of Oil Change International, said: “We’re facing record-breaking cost-of-living, record-breaking fossil fuel production, and a record-breaking debt crisis. These problems are connected. They are all driven by a financial system that is catering to a tiny number of billionaires and CEOs. The only thing that can stop this is record-breaking people power. That is why we are on the streets today. At the last Financing for Development a decade ago, a UN Convention to rewrite tax rules was rejected, but now it has been won because of persistence from Global South governments and civil society. A UN Convention on debt is next. It’s incredibly shortsighted for the EU, Canada, Japan, and UK to be blocking this.”
Civil society has called for wider social transformation and a just transition to new modes of production, distribution, and consumption that prioritize peoples’ needs over profit. To achieve this, the inequitable economic and political relations between countries must change, and the institutions that control global economic and financial governance must be transformed.
Patricia Miranda, global advocacy director of LATINDADD (Latin American Network for Economic, Social and Climate Justice): “Debt is the greatest challenge for the Fourth Financing for Development Conference. As we face a new debt crisis trapped in a system that concentrates power in few hands, it is urgent to initiate real reform and lay the foundations for truly democratic governance. A UN Convention on Sovereign Debt, in which all countries have a voice, can deliver fair, sustainable and equitable solutions for all.”
Jenny Ricks, general secretary of Fight Inequality Alliance: “We are living in the era of the billionaire, but this is also a time of a debt crisis. Across the Global South, people are not waiting for summits to create a just world — we are on the streets to demand it. Governments need to hear the urgent cries for systemic changes like debt cancellation and taxes on the super rich, not cosmetic tweaks.”
Ingo Ritz, director of Global Call to Action Against Poverty: “As a European I am ashamed. In the FfD4 negotiations the EU – together with other rich countries – blocked the proposals from the global south to solve the global debt and financing crisis. These northern governments are defending the status quo – an international financial architecture that protects the interests of big corporations. Billions of people are suffering under austerity and conditionalities of IMF and World Bank that cut public services, increase inequality and create poverty and hunger. To ensure health, education and social protection for all we need a transformed financial international architecture.”
Absolom Jim, chapter lead of Debt for Climate: “The FFD4 process has proved a façade, another Global North-sponsored theatre where the debt noose around our necks is tightened under the disguise of false solutions. Zimbabwe and much of Africa are not asking for charity, we’re demanding system change. We reject debt swaps, delays, and greenwashed gimmicks. The time for compromise is over. The world must hear this from Africa: cancel the debt and dismantle colonial finance.”
Petro Damian, chapter lead of Debt for Climate: “Africa is rich in people, culture, and resources yet trapped in debt it did not create. We demand the cancellation of illegitimate debt and the creation of a fair financial system that allows our continent to thrive, not just survive.”
Arjun Bhattarai, co-chair of Global Call to Action Against Poverty: “We need to halt the debt crisis and prevent it from occurring again. Economic Justice is the key to ending poverty, reducing inequalities and solving the climate crisis.”
Geoengineering is portrayed as a solution to climate change and Africa has been targeted by its proponents. Rather than a solution, Geoengineering is a hoax to divert attention from real solutions. Join us for an event that will explore the threats of geoengineering and spotlight the need for precaution.
Date: 25 June, 2025
Time: 10:30–11:45 CEST Location: Room Kaminzimmer, WCC Bonn
WHAT: Press conference demanding that the COP30 host government, Brazil, end all crude oil and refined products exports to Israel, demonstrating its seriousness towards addressing the genocide and climate change. The speakers will also address the governments of the USA, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Albania, Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Gabon, to demand an end to the transfer of coal, crude oil and petroleum to Israel, and pressuring energy corporations that are most implicated in supplying Israel during the genocide, particularly Glencore, Drummond, SOCAR, BP and
Chevron. Additionally, also call on Egypt, the EU, and other countries to end gas purchases from Israel and stop companies from profiteering from Israel’s settler-colonial occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
WHEN June 17th, 10 AM (GMT+2)
WHERE Nairobi 4, Main building. conference in Nairobi room inside the World Conference Center, Bonn, Germany.
CONTACT Esthappen S, Communications Coordinator, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (Whatsapp: +91 9820918910, Email: [email protected])
WHO Rula Shadid (The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy), Ana Sánchez (The Global Energy Embargo for Palestine), Sinéad Magner (Women and Gender Constituency), Moderated by Rachitaa Gupta (Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice).
Climate activists from Latin America and the Caribbean have set their demands towards the second week of COP29, focusing on the damage that the approval of Article 6.4 can cause in the UNFCCC process, and the low expectations regarding the political will to provide funds, especially for loss and damage, as well emissions reductions in the agriculture sector.
Despite the uncertain outcome of negotiations in Baku, particularly on carbon markets and false solutions, Latin America is already building the road towards Belem next year, where the People’s Summit is expected to put pressure on the Brazilian COP30 Presidency and reduce the impact on communities of the climate crisis.
“The People”s Summit towards COP 30 in Belem will be an opportunity for social movements and organizations to strengthen the global movement for climate justice, land rights and for socioenvironmental transformation. Calling an autonomous and popular convergence process with protagonism of Amazon, LAC and Global South organizations, our goal is to mobilize and pressure for real climate solutions and popular just transition”.
Maureen Santos, FASE
“Over the past decade, powerful neoliberal governments, transnational agribusinesses, and multinational corporations have been pushing market-based and technology-driven solutions. They continue to burn down our house and we know no one else is coming for us, but ourselves. We promote and practice Agroecology as the systemic solution to achieve Food Sovereignty and Social Justice producing 70 percent of the food worldwide in approximately 30 percent of the available arable land. In La Vía Campesina we commit to continue fulfilling the sacred responsibility of feeding the world, sustaining life while we defend and steward the natural commons.”
Jesús Vázquez Negrón, La Vía Campesina Internacional (Puerto Rico)
“Agro-businesses associated with unsustainable livestock farming are a major cause of environmental and social injustices. It must be a central issue for climate action, as the increasing corporate power of big meat and dairy in these negotiations, participating in parallel multi-stakeholder initiatives, allows for the consolidation of false solutions and narratives.”
Andrea Echeverri, Global Forest Coalition (Colombia)
“The polluter countries must pay a fine and not a fee to continue polluting. A fine has to do with the recognition of ecological debt. Fine is impunity and has to do with all that has being negotiated in this and former COPs”
Ivonne Yánez, Acción Ecológica (Ecuador)
“Damage and loss is a priority for our communities. Providing financial resources must be included in the commitments adopted at COP29. We do not accept agreements that violate the historical obligations of developed countries, which are the cause of this crisis. Negotiations cannot go beyond the legal framework; we have the right to have the damage repaired. The NCQG must provide the funds for damage and loss.”
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, 14 NOV 24 – As COP29 heads into the fourth day, climate finance for ambitious climate action in the food and agriculture sector needs to be an urgent demand within the global climate policy space. Agriculture is both a significant contributor to climate change, responsible for 21-37% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and a sector highly vulnerable to its impacts.
About 15% of global fossil fuel resources are destined to agriculture and food transport & storage. Agriculture lacks robust emissions reduction targets, with increasing dependence on petrochemical-based pesticides and fertilisers. A quick and just transition in agriculture is urgently needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, given that 80% of the world’s poorest live in rural areas and rely on this sector for their livelihoods. Needless to say that women represent 43% of the agricultural workforce.
Empowering small food producers in agriculture enhances sustainability, resilience, and food security, yet climate finance for small-scale farmers remains limited, with only 0.8% allocated to these groups in 2023. Food systems should focus on producing adequate, nutritious, and accessible food for all, with an emphasis on meeting communities’ staple needs for domestic consumption.
“A just transition is not only switching from coal to renewable energy. A just transition recognizes the self-determination of farmers, communities, small producers and asking them what they want to grow.”
Wanun Permpibul, Climate Watch Thailand
“No climate action will be successful if we do not include a radical transformation of agri-food systems, and to achieve that we need women. For that we need adequate financing and to highlight their role in the agri-food system from seed to plate.”
Andrea Echeverri, Global Forest Coalition
“Just transitions cannot be reduced to fossil fuels and workers, it has to be about the whole of society’s transformation that undoes centuries of historical inequality and addresses not only the climate crisis but also the biodiversity crisis as well. We need an expansive vision of transformation that delivers a just and ecological equitable transition.”
Leon Sealy-Hoggins, War on Want
“A just transition in the energy sector will not be possible without a just transition away from the industrial agriculture model that accounts for 15% of all fossil fuel annually. A just transition away from industrial agriculture towards an equitable, humane and sustainable food system is urgently needed to meet the climate, biodiversity and sustainable development targets.”
Elodie Guillon, World Animal Protection
‘The stakes couldn’t be higher. The food and agriculture sector is the 2nd largest emitting sector after energy whilst at the same time already bearing the brunt of climate changes which billion of poor rely on. Without urgent action and a just transition away from the industrial animal agriculture system towards equitable, humane and sustainable food system the climate, biodiversity and the SDG goals will remain out of reach.’
Thank you Chair for the Floor, we the TUNGO constituency would like to deliver this statement on behalf of ourselves, Women and Gender, Climate Action Network and Demand Climate Justice and YOUNGO.
As the allied civil society constituencies, we have consistently advocated that the Just Transition Work Programme be a space for transformative action for workers in formal and informal economy, people and the planet. We are afraid that the current draft text pulls us into a deadlock with the only outcome being another dialogue. We would like to reiterate that the JTWP must move beyond only dialogues and must deliver just transition on the ground and for that we need the WP to focus on concrete actionable outcomes in achieving the elements (a) to (g) outlined in paragraph 2 of decision 3/CMA.5
As allied constituencies, we would like to ask Parties to consider an alternative to paragraph 6 of the draft text:
“Invites Parties, observers, and other non-Party stakeholders to submit via the submission portal views on concrete outcomes to achieving the elements (a) to (g) listed in paragraph 2 of decision 3/CMA.5 by February and requests the co-chairs to draft a compilation of the submissions to be used for the third and fourth dialogue.”
The purpose of this alternative is to focus all our work in 2025 on concrete outcomes, instead of sectoral dialogues.
All constituencies have also other inputs on the text and would welcome the possibility to come back on those later. At this stage we consider it crucial to ensure the text offers at least one avenue to making a difference for people on the ground as soon as possible.
The IPCC is currently preparing its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), which among others, consists of contributions from each of the three IPCC Working Groups and a Synthesis Report (SYR), which integrates the Working Group contributions and the Special Reports produced in the cycle. More information on the sixth assessment cycle is available here.
IPCC – Working Group III focuses on climate change mitigation, assessing methods for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and removing greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. Members of DCJ and experts from all over the world share their views on the report of this working group from a climate justice perspective:
Lidy Nacpil, Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development: “It is utterly deplorable that governments of the wealthiest and biggest polluter countries claim to be leaders in the fight against climate change and yet are quite shameless in refusing to undertake their fair shares of climate action and blocking demands for equity and justice to be at the center of mitigation actions.”
Meena Raman, Third World Network, said: “Thanks to the efforts of developing countries, attempts by developed countries to undermine references to climate justice, equity and unconditional climate finance as an obligation from developed countries to developing countries to address climate change were thwarted. Without this, the SPM would have been gravely compromised, wiping out climate justice.”
Dipti Bhatnagar, Climate Justice and Energy International Programme Coordinator, of Friends of the Earth International, said: “We do not consent to an overshoot of 1.5 degrees, and there is no justification for pursuing policies or pathways that allow for an overshoot. We used to chant “1.5, we might survive” – 1.5 was already a compromise for frontline communities suffering the worst climate impacts. The IPCC’s WGII climate scientists told us only last month that breaching this guard-rail, even temporarily, could push us over a series of tipping points that would lead to uncontrollable warming. It would be grossly negligent for economists to ignore those warnings and propose inequitable mitigation plans that allow for an overshoot, as is now on the table with this new report.”
Souparna Lahiri, Climate and Biodiversity Policy Advisor, Global Forest Coalition, said: “In the back drop of the findings of the AR6 WGII report pointing out that global warming is likely to reach or exceed 1.5°C and that massive deployment of afforestation, bioenergy, with or without carbon capture and storage, can compound climate-related risk, the IPCC Mitigation report should be bold and decisive in recommending not to rely on false solutions that creates immense pressure on land sector leading to land grab and dispossession and, therefore clearly articulating the impacts on IPLCs and women, their tenurial right and access to land and livelihoods.
IPCC should be instrumental in building up a global consensus (based on science and not political exigencies) on an immediate and rapid phase out of and divestment from fossil fuels, halt to deforestation and biodiversity loss and address their drivers including industrial agriculture and livestock sector and an end to offsets. A global framework for real climate solutions should be community led, based on rights- based gender just approach supported by adequate and timely climate finance.”
Osver Polo Carrasco, Movimiento Ciudadano frente al Cambio Climático – MOCICC: “We hope that the IPCC mitigation Group III report can express as part of the real actions to face climate change the moment of a rapid transition from fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) to alternative energy, As there are also measures to drastically reduce emissions for air, sea and land transport to limit the temperature of the planet, time is running out, we are in a decisive decade, to make the changes that are needed for the good of our planet ”
Eduardo Giesen, Colectivo VientoSur, Chile: “The report expresses the seriousness of climate change and its impacts, and the urgency of reducing emissions, but does not address the urgency of transforming, together with technologies, the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption in the world, that fundamentally maintain pressure on the global south, its peoples, communities and ecosystems, while the main responsible for the global crisis – the great powers and the multinational corporations – continue to enrich themselves and increase their power.
It is urgent that the IPCC and science listen to the peoples and climate justice movements, claiming for alternatives based on the sovereignty of peoples and territories, and make the work of establishing the difference – in terms of their climatic impacts – between agri-food systems based on peasant agriculture and agro-ecology and those based on export agribusiness and large-scale monocultures; or between energy systems based on mega-renewable energy plants and those based on community-scale micro-grids.
It is necessary for the IPCC to abandon criteria and economic solutions that have no scientific basis, like defining countries’ emission reduction commitments with respect to the emissions curve associated with expected economic growth or promoting carbon offsets and markets, with priority over a regulatory approach with state support.”
Tzeporah Berman, Chair for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: “This report is clear that we are now facing a dangerous lock-in of fossil fuel emissions and stranded assets which will further destabilize our economy and society. This is because governments and companies have continued to recklessly expand oil, gas and coal projects. A new global fossil fuel treaty can help countries manage this risk and constraints production in a way that is fast and fair at the scale required to tackle this global crisis. You can’t put out a fire with gas and our planet is quite literally on fire.”
Susann Scherbarth, Head of Climate Justice in BUND/ Friends of the Earth Germany said: “The hunger for energy is rising and rising and rising and with that the temperatures on our planet. We have to stop that now – it will be hard, we all know that. A climate- and a socially just 1.5-degree path can reduce climate impacts and geo-political conflicts. The Global North – Germany including – must systematically end a wasteful use of energy and resources in a socially just manner in all sectors. Germany with its G7 presidency now has the opportunity and duty of ensuring a global energy system that is clean, affordable, renewable and socially just.”
Linda Schneider, Senior Programme Officer International Climate Policy at Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin, Germany: “The IPCC mitigation report contains much of what is needed to get on track for 1.5°C: Fossil fuel phase-out, wind and solar, widespread electrification, and lowering energy and resource demand, in particular in the Global North, transformations in food systems and diets, protection and restoration of natural ecosystems in line with rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples. But the IPCC falls short of highlighting the right conclusions from its own findings. The previous two Working Group reports highlighted the severe risks and irreversible damage associated with overshooting the 1.5°C limit and also pointed out the risks and dangers of relying on speculative carbon removal and other geo-engineering technologies. But in the SPM of the new report, the central climate mitigation strategy — phasing out all fossil fuels, starting immediately — is often diluted by references to techno-fixes that are meant to keep the fossil fuel industry alive. Overly vague language on ‘net zero’ emissions thereby obfuscates the most urgent policy responses. One thing is clear: geo-engineering technologies will not be able to reverse climate breakdown.”
Kjell Kühne, Director Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO), said: “This report makes it very clear that the 2020s are a key phase in the fossil endgame. We have to start looking at tools and mechanisms to end fossil fuel burning not within a century, but within a decade, especially in the Global North. It’s not a task to be left to our children. It’s us adults now who have to accomplish the full transition before our children even grow up.”
Michael E Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University: “This latest report drives home both the urgency and agency in addressing the climate crisis. While we are already experiencing dangerous climate change impacts, this report shows that we can still avert the worst consequences if we rapidly accelerate the transition from fossil fuels toward clean energy and climate-friendly practices. A Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty can be an anchor for driving forward that transition globally.”
As this new IPCC report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability is released, we as civil society also express our views on the results through the voices of the members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice.
Hemantha Withanage, Chair of Friends of the Earth International, based in Sri Lanka, said:
“Climate impacts are already happening everywhere, faster, and with worse consequences than ever predicted. We are already witnessing extreme weather events that scientists didn’t expect to see until 2100. After COP26’s false front of flashy announcements, this report is a stark reminder of the reality: Climate chaos is at the gate. System change must happen now. Real emissions reductions, real solutions, must happen now.”
Amos Nkpeebo, Friends of the Earth Ghana, added:
“The IPCC report confirms that some damage is beyond repair and it will be impossible for many communities to adapt, especially if the 1.5-degree threshold is breached. We’re facing the potential for hundreds of millions of people displaced from their homes within this century, and swathes of farmland turning to dust. We urgently demand for finance for adaptation and for loss and damage, to help vulnerable populations.”
Alex Rafalowicz, Director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, said: “This latest report shows that continued warming will sentence us to a world that we cannot adapt to. Even though we know that extracting everything from existing coal, oil and gas projects alone would push us past the threshold for a livable planet, new projects are still being approved and expanded. The fossil fuel industry will not design its own demise so governments must break this dependence on fossil fuels to protect livelihoods, security and planet. The future projections of the IPCC can be avoided if we act but action means addressing the fossil fuel system in its entirety.”
Susann Scherbarth, Head of Climate Justice in BUND/ Friends of the Earth Germany said: “Anyone who does not acknowledge the massive scale of climate change impacts is burying their heads in the sand. However, it’s not the time to go into shock. The climate crisis is man-made and must also be tackled by us for everyone – in raising our sleeves and getting down to work. While the German government is showing more progressive climate plans than ever before, words must be followed by strong deeds and adapted to a 1.5 degree pathway. With the G7 presidency this year, Germany has the duty to ensure climate justice internationally. They must seriously anchor solutions that lead to real emission reductions. The German government must ensure that all G7 countries unconditionally support the end of the fossil fuel era – including nuclear and gas – and commit to socially just climate finance.“
From LIDY NACPIL, Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development:
“The latest IPCC Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability speaks of at least 4.33 billion people, mostly from the Global South, who will become even more highly vulnerable to climate change. It is a grim reminder of the urgency of climate action and system change.
And yet governments, especially from the Global North, are failing to meet their fair shares of actions and attempting to cover their lack of ambition by lofty declarations of “Net Zero”. With Net Zero, they want us to believe that unproven and even dangerous carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies will remove the GHGs they intend to continue to emit. With Net Zero they are peddling carbon trading, offsets and other similar market mechanisms to shift the burden of emissions reductions elsewhere.
We demand real zero targets, and immediate and near term equitable and ambitious climate actions. What the world will do in the current decade will determine if the goal of keeping temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees will remain within reach.”
Teresa Anderson, Climate Justice Lead for ActionAid International said:
“This report presents a harrowing catalogue of the immense suffering that climate change means for billions of people, now and for the decades to come. It’s the most hard-hitting compilation of climate science the world has ever seen. You can’t read it without feeling sick to your stomach.
“A global system that provides support to climate-vulnerable countries to pick up the pieces and rebuild in the aftermath of climate disasters is long overdue. The COP27 climate negotiations in Egypt later this year must finally agree to a funding facility to address loss and damage.
“We know that behind the scenes, the US made attempts to delete references to ‘loss and damage’ from the IPCC text. The Biden administration is not only shutting their eyes to the reality of the climate crisis – they’re trying to blindfold the rest of the world too. They appear to wear a badge of climate leadership, while doing all they can to block those most in need from getting help. It’s dishonest and utterly shameful.”
VIctor Menotti, Senior Fellow, Oakland Institute
IPCC’s new WGII report is yet another code red warning for elected officials and energy ministers — especially in top fossil fuel consuming countries — who now witness not only the violent military aggression financed by fossil fuels production but also the mounting damage to peoples’ livelihoods and our earth’s ecosystems from their ever-increasing consumption. As G20 countries intensify their dialogue between producing and consuming countries at the International Energy Forum (IEF) to secure energy supplies, governments must stop ignoring the obvious option of decreasing demand for fossil fuels rather than only planning and pushing to further expand their production. Even exhausting today’s existing oil and gas wells will put us way past prudent levels of GHG in our atmosphere, so urgent international cooperation is needed now to stabilize prices so all countries can equitably transition away from fossil fuels.
OPINIONES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL EN RELACIÓN AL INFORME DEL IPCC SOBRE IMPACTOS, ADAPTACIÓN Y VULNERABILIDAD
Ante la publicación de este nuevo informe del IPCC sobre impactos, adaptación y vulnerabilidad, nosotros, como sociedad civil, también expresamos nuestros puntos de vista sobre los resultados a través de las voces de los miembros de la Campaña Global para Exigir Justicia Climática.
Hemantha Withanage, Presidente de Amigos de la Tierra Internacional, de Sri Lanka, afirmó:
“Los impactos climáticos ya están ocurriendo en todas partes, más rápidamente, y con peores consecuencias que las previstas anteriormente. Ya estamos viviendo fenómenos meteorológicos extremos que la comunidad científica no esperaba observar antes del año 2100. Tras los vistosos anuncios falsos de la COP26, este informe es un duro golpe de realidad: El caos climático está en puerta. Tenemos que cambiar de sistema AHORA. Se requieren reducciones reales de emisiones, soluciones verdaderas ahora mismo”.
Amos Nkpeebo, de Amigos de la Tierra Ghana, agregó:
“Este nuevo informe del IPCC confirma que hay daños que ya son irreparables y que a muchas comunidades les será imposible adaptarse, especialmente si se traspasa el umbral de 1,5 grados Celsius. Enfrentamos la posibilidad de que cientos de millones de personas sean desplazadas de sus hogares en este siglo, y que enormes extensiones de tierras cultivables queden convertidas en polvo. Exigimos urgentemente financiamiento para adaptación y para pérdidas y daños, a fin de ayudar a las poblaciones vulnerables”.
Alex Rafalowicz, director de la Iniciativa del Tratado de No Proliferación de Combustibles Fósiles, dijo:
“Este último informe muestra que el calentamiento continuo nos condenará a un mundo al que no podemos adaptarnos. Aunque sabemos que extraer todo del carbón, petróleo y gas existentes nos empujarían mas allá del umbral de un planeta habitable, aún se están aprobando y expandiendo nuevos proyectos. La industria de los combustibles fósiles no diseñará su propia desaparición, por lo que los gobiernos deben romper esta dependencia de los combustibles fósiles para proteger los medios de vida, la seguridad y el planeta. Las proyecciones futuras del IPCC se pueden evitar si actuamos, pero la acción significa abordar el sistema de combustibles fósiles en su totalidad”.
Susann Scherbarth, Jefa de Justicia Climática en BUND/Amigos de la Tierra Alemania, dijo:
“Cualquiera que no reconozca la escala masiva de los impactos del cambio climático está enterrando la cabeza en la arena. Sin embargo, no es el momento de entrar en shock. La crisis climática es provocada por el hombre y también debe ser abordada por todxs nosotrxs, poniéndonos manos a la obra. Si bien el gobierno alemán muestra planes climáticos más progresistas que nunca, las palabras deben ir seguidas de hechos sólidos y adaptarse a un camino de 1,5 grados. Con la presidencia del G7 este año, Alemania tiene el deber de garantizar la justicia climática a nivel internacional. Deben anclar seriamente soluciones que conduzcan a reducciones reales de emisiones. El gobierno alemán debe asegurarse de que todos los países del G7 apoyen incondicionalmente el fin de la era de los combustibles fósiles, incluidos el gas y la energía nuclear, y se comprometan con una financiación climática socialmente justa”.
De LIDY NACPIL, Movimiento de los Pueblos Asiáticos sobre Deuda y Desarrollo:
“El último Informe del IPCC sobre Impactos, Adaptación y Vulnerabilidad habla de al menos 4330 millones de personas, en su mayoría del Sur Global, que serán aún más vulnerables al cambio climático. Es un sombrío recordatorio de la urgencia de la acción climática y el cambio de sistema.
Y, sin embargo, los gobiernos, especialmente del Norte Global, no cumplen con su parte justa de acciones e intentan cubrir su falta de ambición con declaraciones elevadas de “Cero Neto”. Con Net Zero, quieren que creamos que las tecnologías de captura y almacenamiento de carbono (CCS) no probadas e incluso peligrosas eliminarán los GEI que pretenden seguir emitiendo. Con Net Zero están vendiendo comercio de carbono, compensaciones y otros mecanismos de mercado similares para trasladar la carga de las reducciones de emisiones a otros lugares.
Exigimos objetivos cero reales y acciones climáticas ambiciosas, equitativas e inmediatas y a corto plazo. Lo que haga el mundo en la década actual determinará si el objetivo de mantener el aumento de la temperatura por debajo de 1,5 grados seguirá estando al alcance”.
Teresa Anderson, Líder de Justicia Climática de ActionAid International, dijo:
“Este informe presenta un catálogo desgarrador del inmenso sufrimiento que el cambio climático significa para miles de millones de personas, ahora y en las próximas décadas. Es la compilación más contundente de la ciencia del clima que el mundo haya visto jamás. No puedes leerlo sin sentirte mal del estómago.
“Hace mucho tiempo que se necesitaba un sistema global que brinde apoyo a los países vulnerables al clima para recoger los pedazos y reconstruir después de los desastres climáticos. Las negociaciones climáticas de la COP27 en Egipto a finales de este año deben finalmente acordar un mecanismo de financiación para abordar las pérdidas y los daños.
“Sabemos que entre bastidores, EE. UU. intentó eliminar las referencias a ‘pérdidas y daños’ del texto del IPCC. La administración de Biden no solo está cerrando los ojos ante la realidad de la crisis climática, sino que también está tratando de vendar los ojos al resto del mundo. Parecen llevar una insignia de liderazgo climático, mientras hacen todo lo posible para bloquear a los más necesitados.
Victor Menotti, investigador senior, Instituto de Oakland
El nuevo informe del GTII del IPCC es otra advertencia de código rojo para los funcionarios electos y los ministros de energía, especialmente en los principales países consumidores de combustibles fósiles, que ahora son testigos no solo de la violenta agresión militar financiada por la producción de combustibles fósiles, sino también del daño creciente a los medios de vida de las personas y a nuestros los ecosistemas de la tierra de su consumo cada vez mayor. A medida que los países del G20 intensifican su diálogo entre países productores y consumidores en el Foro Internacional de Energía (IEF) para asegurar el suministro de energía, los gobiernos deben dejar de ignorar la opción obvia de disminuir la demanda de combustibles fósiles en lugar de solo planificar y presionar para expandir aún más su producción. Incluso agotar los pozos de petróleo y gas existentes en la actualidad nos permitirá superar los niveles prudentes de GEI en nuestra atmósfera, por lo que ahora se necesita una cooperación internacional urgente para estabilizar los precios para que todos los países puedan hacer una transición equitativa para dejar los combustibles fósiles.
Join members and allies of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice in conversation as we discuss the principles of climate justice and explore relevant topics ranging across energy, food, land, jobs, reparations, false solutions, corporate abuse, and gender justice.
During a series of online events extending into 2021, activists from around the world will draw on their experiences of campaigning and organising in social movements to deepen our collective understanding of what it means to demand climate justice and strategise together.
Part 1 of the Climate Justice Groundings will run weekly from mid-October to mid-November 2020.
Please register for the sessions of your choice below
Please note that “We Demand Reparations,” will take place as part of the COP26 Coalition’s global online gathering, From The Ground Up. Live interpretation will be available for all sessions in English<>Spanish, English<>French, and French<>Spanish. Each session will also be recorded and made available at a later date.
Part 2 of the Climate Justice Groundings will launch in January 2021 and will cover issues such as corporate abuse and false solutions, the interdependence between climate justice and feminism and gender justice, the uneven impact of climate breakdown, securing jobs and livelihoods, the international climate change negotiations, and the role of social movements and people power in bringing about systems change.
We would appreciate it if you could spread the word among your networks by forwarding this email and sharing on social media. You can download our poster series here, including images to use specifically on Twitter and Facebook/Instagram.
N.B. “Grounding” is a Rastafari practice and way of life from which we are drawing inspiration. The Pan-Africanist historian Walter Rodney referred to the practice in his work The Groundings with my Brothers. Like Rodney, we use the term here with respect and admiration. The Climate Justice Groundings are not one off events, but rather steps on the path we as movements are walking towards our goal of collective liberation and justice.
ENCUENTROS DE JUSTICIA CLIMÁTICA
Únete a los miembros y aliados de la Campaña Global para Exigir Justicia Climática en una conversación en que discutimos los principios de la justicia climática y exploramos temas relevantes que abarcan energía, alimentos, tierra, trabajo, reparaciones, soluciones falsas, abuso corporativo y justicia de género.
Durante una serie de eventos en línea que se extenderán hasta 2021, activistas de todo el mundo aprovecharán sus experiencias de campañas y organización en movimientos sociales para profundizar nuestra comprensión colectiva de lo que significa exigir justicia climática y elaborar estrategias juntos.
La Parte 1 de “Groundings de Justicia Climática” se realizará semanalmente desde mediados de octubre hasta mediados de noviembre de 2020.
Regístrate para las sesiones de tu elección a continuación:
Habrá interpretación en vivo disponible para todas las sesiones en inglés <> español, inglés <> francés y francés <> español. Cada sesión también se grabará y estará disponible en una fecha posterior.
“Exigimos reparaciones” se llevará a cabo como parte del encuentro global en línea de la Coalición COP26, From The Ground Up.
La Parte 2 de “Groundings de Justicia Climática” se lanzará en enero de 2021 y cubrirá temas como el abuso corporativo y las falsas soluciones, la interdependencia entre la justicia climática y el feminismo y la justicia de género, el impacto desigual del colapso climático, la seguridad de empleos y medios de vida, negociaciones internacionales sobre cambio climático, y el papel de los movimientos sociales y el poder popular en el cambio sistémico.
Te agradeceríamos correr la voz entre tus redes enviando este correo electrónico y compartiéndolo en las redes sociales. Puedes descargar nuestra serie de carteles aquí, incluidas imágenes para usar específicamente en Twitter y Facebook/Instagram.
N.B. “Grounding” es una práctica y forma de vida rastafari en la que nos inspiramos. El historiador panafricanista Walter Rodney se refirió a la práctica en su obra The Groundings with my Brothers. Como Rodney, usamos el término aquí con respeto y admiración. “Groundings de Justicia Climática” no son eventos aislados, sino pasos en el camino que nosotrxs, como movimientos, estamos caminando hacia nuestro objetivo de liberación y justicia colectivas.
To sign on to the statement please complete this form. The Spanish and French versions are underneath the list of signatories. Español abajo.Para sumar su organización a este pronunciamiento por favor diligencie este formulario. La version français se trouve sous la liste des signataires.Pour signer la déclaration, veuillez compléter ce formulaire.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposes an economic system unable to meet the needs of people and planet. Our only solution to address this global crisis, occurring amid a devastating climate crisis, is to join together and build a more just, resilient, and sustainable world. As members and allies of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice we are making an initial set of demands of governments as they respond to the pandemic.
The word apocalypse comes from the word for revelation. The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing what the global majority has known all along: that the dominant economic system prioritises profits over people and planet.
With each new day of infections, deaths and destroyed livelihoods, the pandemic is exposing the gross injustices of our existing systems. Years of neoliberalism, ‘structural adjustment’ and austerity have dismantled the social welfare state, specifically underfunding and hollowing out health systems across the globe. We are left with deficits of life-saving equipment, and surpluses of polluting industries.
The dimensions of the collective suffering and individual trauma unfolding are too vast to contemplate. Families confronting loss or lockdown in abusive relationships; bodies facing devastating illness; communities facing hunger and isolation.
But the pandemic has also shown our enormous collective strength, and the possibilities that emerge when a crisis is taken seriously, and people join together.
For those of us in the global climate justice movement, the unravelling of the pandemic comes as no surprise. For decades, as movements we have denounced the violent impacts of an unequal global economic system, the devastation of an accelerating climate crisis, and the shockingly cruel ways in which those least responsible bear its heaviest burdens. For decades, we have demanded an end to a status quo that was and continues to be a death sentence for the world’s poorest. The coronavirus crisis is a stark reminder of a prolonged past, and our response to it a dress rehearsal for the present and future.
Justice
As with the climate crisis, the COVID-19 crisis loads the heaviest burdens on those most vulnerable. The poorest are affected first and worst. It inflames the disparities carved by wealth, gender, class, race, (dis)ability and other intersectional factors. The highest costs are being borne by those least able to pay them, who were always condemned to bear such costs.
Most clearly, those most at risk of infection are those least able to isolate themselves.
A lockdown means confinement in our homes. But some of us are entirely without a home, or live with multiple family members and relatives in one house. Some of us are internally displaced people’s or refugee camps, or in detention centres, or go without access to running water and sanitation. For some of us, home is the site of violence and abuse, and staying home means an end to public activity we rely on for our day-to-day subsistence. Some of us can’t stay home because we are working in the most crucial and life-sustaining sectors, such as agriculture, without protection, including many of the subsistence and family farmers who feed over two-thirds of the world.
Women and girls bear the brunt of care work in our current system, in the home, in our communities and also in the economy, as they are the majority of health care workers. This pandemic has shown us the importance of care work, the work needed to raise families, to cook and clean and take care of the sick and elderly. It has shown us the profound impact of the lack of public services and social institutions for care work . We must use this moment to understand the importance of care work, share it among all peoples and build a society and economy that takes on care work based on feminist, care-affirming principles.
In many countries, health, food and basic services sectors are supported by migrant labour, many of whom do not have a voice, recourse to public funds and most often serving with the least protection. Migrant voices are also most often ignored in climate discussions. In times of crises, whether health or natural calamities, they are one of the most vulnerable, discriminated against, and ignored.
Those most affected by the climate crisis – people in the Global South who have faced the violence of environmental degradation, extended drought, and forced displacement – have now become one of most vulnerable populations to contagion and its effects. In areas where the health of communities has been debilitated by polluting industries, leading to an array of respiratory and immunological conditions, people are particularly at risk to COVID-19.
The pandemic is already opening the door to a major economic crisis, with an upcoming recession that will render the vast majority of the global population – who live day-to-day with precarious livelihoods – in a condition of even more chronic poverty. The risk of famine and deep disruptions to food sovereignty is significant. Southern countries are burdened with illegitimate and unsustainable debt – accumulated through decades of exploitative and predatory lending by Northern governments, international financial institutions and big banks in collaboration with southern elites and those Southern governments with authoritarian and corrupt practices. The prioritization of payments of these debts have taken a heavy toll on public services and continue to take up a huge part of public spending that should be allocated instead to public health responses to the pandemic.
A Crossroads
We are at a crossroads. For years, we have demanded ‘system change not climate change’. System change now seems more necessary than ever, and more possible. The rules of the game are changing swiftly. Upheaval is unavoidable.
The question is: what kind of change is unfolding? What kind of system is emerging? What direction will change take?
The powerful are taking advantage of the crisis to advance disaster capitalism and a new authoritarianism, handing themselves expanding police and military powers, and rushing through extractive projects. Many governments are seizing the chance to push through draconian measures, police the population, undermine workers’ rights, repress the rights of Indigenous peoples, restrict public participation in decision-making, restrict access to sexual and reproductive health services, and institute widespread surveillance. In the worst situations, repressive actors are using the moment of political instability to violently quash dissent, legitimise racism, religious fundamentalism and advance predatory mining frontiers, and execute land defenders.
But the crisis they are making use of, also offers an opportunity for our movements to shape the emergent future. Our movements know the way forward, the type of world we need to build. Across the world, people are realising that our dominant economic system does not meet peoples’ needs. They are clearly seeing that corporations and the market will not save us. They are noticing that when a crisis is taken seriously, governments are capable of taking bold action and mobilise enormous resources to confront it. The limits of the possible can be radically shaken and rewritten. Within weeks, policy proposals long-campaigned for in many contexts (an end to evictions, liberating prisoners, bold economic redistribution to name but a few) have become common-sense and mainstream responses.
We are living through a convulsive but very fertile political moment. Our world has been forced into solidarity by a virus which ignores all borders; our deep interdependence has never been more undeniable.
In such a crisis rethinking and reimagining our economic model is inescapable. Resilient and justice-based solutions are not only possible, but the only real solution.
It is clear now that we need a response of solidarity, equity and care, with massive public investment that puts people and planet first, not polluting industries and profiteers. Just recoveries, and global and national new deals to build a regenerative, distributive and resilient economy is both necessary, and increasingly politically feasible.
The Fight for A New Normal
We will not return to a normal in which the suffering of the many underwrote the luxuries of the few. While politicians will push for a rapid resumption of the status quo, we can’t go back to normal, as social movements have affirmed, when that normal was killing people and the planet.
Our climate justice movements are in both a perilous and promising situation. The urgency of climate breakdown has dropped under the radar, even as climate violence is relentless, expressed most recently in devastating storms across the Pacific, forest fires in China, and torrential rains in Colombia. Unless we take this political moment, climate action will be on the backburner, and economies in the rich North will be turbocharged and revived with dirty investments that deepen the climate crisis. We must be vigilant and persevering to ensure that addressing the climate crisis must be front and center of bailouts, and programmes to ensure the resilience of society and all peoples.
Our movements have an expertise which is invaluable at this time. While COVID-19 and the climate crisis may have different direct causes, their root causes are the same: a reliance on the market, a failure of the state to address long-term threats, the absence of social protection, and an overarching economic model that protects investments over lives and the planet. The same extractivist system that extracts, burns and destroys ecosystems, is the same system which enables dangerous pathogens to spread. The solutions to the COVID-19 and climate crises are the same: solidarity, redistribution, collaboration, equity, and social protection. It is our opportunity and responsibility to join the dots, and use this political moment to confront corporate power, and build a more just and sustainable society.
The Horizons We Can Claim
The pandemic has changed the game. We have the resources to build an economic model that doesn’t trash the planet and provides for all. We have the momentum to recover from this crisis in a way that builds our resilience and fortifies our dignity as societies. Now is our time to claim it.
As members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, we demand a bold response to the COVID-19 pandemic that simultaneously helps address the wider climate crisis, and transform the unequal economic system that has led to both.
We demand that governments:
Prioritise the health and wellbeing of people. People must always be valued over profit, for an economy is worthless without its people. No one is disposable. Fully fund and resource health services and systems, ensuring care for all, without exception. Governments must also prioritise robust investment in other essential public services, such as safe shelter, water, food and sanitation. These services are not only essential in stemming the spread of disease in the long-term, but are core to governments’ obligation to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights for all. Therefore, they must not be privatised and instead be managed in an equitable, publicly-accountable manner.
Guarantee the protection of marginalised populations. Provide aid, social protection, and relief to rural populations and the families that compose them, who are at the forefront of feeding our world. Special protection must also be guaranteed for the social and human rights of all peoples put in vulnerable and precarious circumstances, such as those in situations of homelessness, people in prison, refugees and migrants, elders in home care, orphans, and especially environmental defenders who are now being murdered with even greater frequency under the cover of the COVID-19 emergency.
Issue immediate economic and social measures to provide relief and security to all, particularly the most vulnerable and marginalised groups in our societies. Protect labour rights and guarantee protections for all workers, from the formal to the informal economy, and guarantee a universal basic income. Recognise, visibilise and value all care work, the real labour that is sustaining us during this crisis.
Governments must stop subsidies for fossil fuels and reorient public funds away from the military-industrial complex, and private corporations, and use them instead to ensure access to clean energy, water, and important utilities and public services for the well-being of communities.
We call for an immediatecancelation of debt payments by Southern countries due in 2020 and 2021 with no accrual of interest nor penalties, so that funds can be used for health services to combat COVID19 and for economic assistance for communities and people who are facing greater hardships in the face of the pandemic and responses to it. A mere suspension of payments is not enough, and will simply delay the pain of debt servicing. We also demand an immediate start to an independent international process to address illegitimate and unsustainable debt and debt crises to pave the way for unconditional debt cancelation for all Southern countries.
Governments must also transform tax systems, abolishing fiscal holidays for multinational corporations which undermine revenues, and abolish value-added tax and goods and services taxes for basic goods. Take immediate steps towards stopping illicit financial flows and shutting down tax havens.
Support a long-term just transition and recoveryout of this crisis, and take the crisis as an opportunity to shift to equitable, socially just, climate-resilient and zero-carbon economies. We cannot afford bailouts that simply fill corporate pockets or rescue polluting industries incompatible with a living planet. Rather, we need an economic recovery that builds resilience, dissolves injustices, restores our ecosystems, and leads a managed decline of fossil fuels and a justice-oriented transition towards a fair & sustainable economy. Governments should pursue economic programmes including just trade relations that prioritize domestic needs, dignified and decent jobs across the entire economy, including in the care economy, ecological restoration and agro-ecology, essential services and decentralised renewable energy — all necessary for an equitable and climate-just world.
Reject efforts to push so-called “structural reforms” that only serve to deepen oppression, inequality and impoverishment , including by international financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, who may use the pandemic to push schemes in the Global South under the guise of “shortening the time to recovery.” The neoliberal pillars of austerity, deregulation, and privatisation — especially of essential services such as water, health, education etc — have devastated people across the world and are incompatible with a just recovery.
Bolster international cooperation and people to people solidarity. Global problems that respect no borders, whether they be the climate or COVID-19 crisis, can only have cooperative and equitable solutions. In a deeply unequal world, transferring technology and finance from the richest to the poorest countries is crucial. Governments should facilitate instead of hindering the efforts of people’s movements, citizens groups, Indigenous peoples and civil society organizations to link up across borders and countries for mutual support. We also call on governments to honor their historical responsibility and stop using tactics that dismiss that responsibility and delay a strong international response, such as withholding funding from the WHO and other institutions in a time of crisis.
Collaborate on the development of and unrestricted accessto vaccines and any medical breakthroughs of experimental therapy drugs, led by principles of international cooperation and free distribution. We need to ensure that any COVID-19 vaccine will reach all and that no country will be able to become a monopoly buyer, and no entity a monopoly producer.
Immediately cease extractive projects, from mining to fossil fuels to industrial agriculture, including extraterritorial projects undertaken by corporations headquartered in your country, which are accelerating ecological crises, encroaching on Indigenous territories, and putting communities at risk.
Reject any and all attempts to waive liability ofcorporations and industries. The actors that are responsible, in so many ways, for this multifaceted crisis and the broken system absolutely cannot be granted loopholes that allow them to escape responsibility for their abuses at home and across the world.
Governments must not take advantage of the crisis to push through draconian measures including the expansion of police and military powers that undermine workers’ rights, repress the rights of Indigenous peoples, restrict public participation in decision-making, restrict access to sexual and reproductive health services, or institute widespread surveillance under cover of the crisis.
Signatories
Global & Regional
350.org
50by40
ActionAid International
Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development
Bloque Latinoamericano Berlín
Both ENDS
Corporate Accountability
Corporate Europe Observatory
Climate Action Network International (CAN)
Climate Justice Programme
Climate Tracker
Econexus
Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion Jews
Friends of the Earth International
Fundación APY
Gastivists
Gender Action
Green Advocates International
Green Climate Campaign Africa (GCCA)
Greenpeace
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
Global Climate Justice March
Inclusive Development International
Indigenous Environment Network
International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists
International Oil Working Group
International Rivers
kinfolk network
Minority Rights Group International
Movimento Mocambicano de Mulheres Rurais – MMMR
North African Food Sovereignty Network (NAFSN)
Observatorio Latinoamericano para la Acción Climática (OLAC)
Oil Change International
Oxfam International
Platform of Filipino Organizations in Europe
Rainforest Action Group
Refuel our Future
SERR – SERVICIOS ECUMENICOS PARA RECONCILIACION Y RECONSTRUCCION
Society for International Development (SID)
Sovereign Stories
Third World Network
Transnational Institute
Transnational Migrant Platform-Europe
War on Want
Womankind Worldwide
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
WoMin African Alliance
World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) FUMEC – ALC
Wretched of the Earth
zwei am puls / puls.earth
Africa
Abibiman Foundation
AbibiNsroma Foundation (ANF) Ghana
Actions communautaires pour le développement intégral
African Women’s Development and Communication Network – FEMNET
Alliance for Empowering Rural Communities (AERC-Ghana)
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation (CAPPA) Nigeria
Environment Governance Institute
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria
Esaff Uganda
F.A.R.M (Femmes en Action Rurales de Madagascar)
Foundation for the Conservation of the Earth (FOCONE)
GenderCC S.A. – Women for Climate Justice
Green Climate Campaign Africa
groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa
Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria
Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement
Les Amis de la Terre – Togo (Friends of the Earth Togo)
MuGeDe – Mulher, Genero e Desenvolvimento
National Association for Women’s Action in Development
Nkumba University School of Sciences (NUSCOS)
ONG AFAD (Association de Formation et d’Appui au Développement)
Parliamentary Forum on Climate Change Uganda
Research and Support Center for Development Alternatives – Indian Ocean (RSCDA- IO)
Regional Center for International Development Cooperation (RCIDC) Uganda
South Durban Community Environmental Alliance
Sustaining the Wild Coast
Uganda National Health User’s / Consumers Organisation (UNHCO)
Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) Ghana
Waterberg Women Advocacy Organization
Asia
기후위기비상행동
Agriculture and Forestry Research & Development Centre for Mountainous Regions, Vietnam
Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women in the Philippines
Asha Parivar
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (Thailand)
Bangladesh indigenous women’s network
CLEAN (Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network), Bangladesh
Climate Crisis Emergency Action
Climate Strike Korea
Climate Watch Thailand
Consumers Association of Penang, Malaysia
دبين للتنمية البيئية Dibeen for Environmental Development
Digo Bikas Institute
Energy and Climate Policy Institute for Just Transition(ECPI), South Korea
Environics Trust
Environmental Quality Protection Foundation
Friends of the Earth Malaysia
Growthwatch, India
Kalpavriksh
Korean Climate Emergency Action
Korea Government Employee Union
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan/FoE Phil
Oriang Women’s Movement Philippines
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum
Philippine Movement for Climate Justice
PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress), Bangladesh
Resource Institute of Social Education
Revolutionary Party’s social movement committee of South Korea
Roshni Tariqiyati Tanzeem (Pakistan)
Sanlakas Philippines
Socialist Party (India)
Sukaar Welfare Organization-Pakistan
Sustainable Development Foundation: Thailand
The Centre for Social Research and Development (CSRD), Vietnam
The Glacier Trust
United Mission to Nepal
Urban Resource Centre (URC)
We Women Lanka (Sri Lanka)
Women Network for Energy and Environment (WoNEE), Nepal
Women’s Organisation for Rural Development
World Student Christian Federation (Middle East)
Youth 4 Climate Action
Europe
2degrees artivism (Portugal)
Aberdeen Climate Action
Academia Cidadã – Citizenship Academy
Artists for Palestine UK
Asamblea Antimilitarista de Madrid (Spain)
Association 3 Herissons
ATTAC España
Berkshire Women’s Action Group
BUNDjugend/Young Friends of the Earth Germany
Campaign against Climate Change
CèNTRIC gastro · El Prat de Llobregat · Barcelona
CIDES (España)
Climate SOS: Shift Our Subsidies
Climáximo (Portugal)
Desarma Madrid (Spain)
Diaspora Dialogues for the Future (UK)
Divest Strathclyde
Eco Justice Valandovo, North Macedonia
Ecologistas en Acción (Spain)
Entrepueblos/Entrepobles/Entrepobos/Herriarte
Estonian Forest Aid (Eesti Metsa Abiks)
Extinction Rebellion Aberystwyth
Extinction Rebellion Berlin-Südind Worldwide
Extinction Rebellion Bizkaia
Extinction Rebellion Cantabria
Extinction Rebellion Cornwall
Extinction Rebellion Cymru (Wales)
Extinction Rebellion Gipuzkoa
Extinction Rebellion Liverpool
Extinction Rebellion Llanidloes
Extinction Rebellion Machynlleth
Extinction Rebellion Norway
Extinction Rebellion Switzerland
Fabricants de Futur – no flag no frontier
Frack Free Sussex
Frack Off London
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Friends of the Earth Sweden/Jordens Vänner
Global Aktion
Global Justice Now
Global Justice Rebellion
Guelaya Ecologistas en acción Melilla (Spain)
Independent Left
Instituto De Estudios de la Tierra (España)
Instituto por la Paz y la Ecologia (España)
Jubilee Debt Campaign
Lidera – A Década do Clima
Limity jsme my (Czech Republic)
Madrid Agroecológico (Spain)
Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands)
Mujeres de Negro contra la Guerra – Madrid (Spain)
Notre Affaire à tous (France)
Observatori del Deute en la Globalització (Catalunya)
On est prêt (France)
Ozeanien-Dialog
Positive Money
Programa radiofónico Toma la Tierra, Madrid
Rebelion contra la Extincion – Extinction Rebellion Spain
Red Line Campaign
Sciences Citoyennes
Scot.E3 (Employment, Energy and Environment)
SETEM
Share The World’s Resources (STWR)
Transition Edinburgh
UK Youth Climate Coalition
Weald Action Group
Wen (Women’s Environmental Network)
WhatNext?
WIDE – Network for Women´s Rights and Feminist Perspectives in Development (Austria)
Young Friends of the Earth Macedonia, North Macedonia
Zukunftskonvent Germany
North America
350 Triangle, North Carolina
ActionAid USA
Austin DSA
Berks Gas Truth
Better Path Coalition
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Council of Canadians, Peterborough and Kawartha
Earth Ethics, Inc.
Earth in Brackets
Earthworks
EcoEquity
EnGen Collaborative
Environmental and Climate Justice Hub, University of California
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Extinction Rebellion Centre Wellington, Ontario
Fannie Lou Hamer Institute
Frack Free New Mexico
Friends of the Earth Canada
Friends of the Earth U.S.
Fund for Democratic Communities
Global Resilience
Good Food Jobs
Grassroots Global Justice
Harrington Investments, Inc
Indigenous Environmental Network – Turtle Island
Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program
MiningWatch Canada
New Jersey student sustainability coalition
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light
Pan American Health Organization
People for a Healthy Environment, New York
Peterborough Pollinators
Power Shift Network
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary NGO
Resource Generation
Rising Tide Chicago
Sane Energy Project, New York
Sanford-Oquaga Area Concerned Citizens (S-OACC)
Sisters of Charity Federation
Stand.earth
Sunflower Alliance
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise NYC
SustainUS
The Climate Mobilization
The Climate Mobilization Mont Co Md.
The Global Citizens’ Initiative
The Leap
The Oakland Institute
The Natural History Museum
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC UNITED)
Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth
United for a Fair Economy
Uplift Climate
Upper Valley Affinity Group
Weaving Earth, Center for Relational Education
WildEarth Guardians
Women Donors Network
South America
Accion Ecologica
Amigos de la Tierra Argentina
Articulacion Feminista Marcosur
CEDENMA
CENSAT Friends of The Earth Colombia
Centro de Ciências e Tecnologia para a Soberania, Segurança alimentar alimentar e nutricional a o Direito Humano à Alimentação e Nutrição /adequadas . Nordeste. Brasil
Centro Nicaragüense de Conservación Ambiental-CENICA
Colectivo VientoSur
Critical Geography Collective, Ecuador
Foto del Buen Ayre
Fórum Mudanças Climáticas e Justiça Social – FMCJS
Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer, Argentina
IEASIA – UFPE. Brasil
INOS
La Ruta del Clima
Marcha Mundial do Clima – Brazil
Movimiento ciudadano frente al Cambio Climatico
New Bodhisattva Network
ODRI Intersectional rights – Office for the Defence of Rights and Intersectionality
Plataforma Boliviana frente al Cambio Climático//Bolivian Platform on Climate Change
TierrActiva Colombia
The Democracy Center
Union of Peoples Affected by Texaco
Oceania
ActionAid Australia
Extinction Rebellion Australia
Extinction Rebellion Bondi Beach
Extinction Rebellion Sydney
Friends of the Earth Australia
Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights
Oceania Human Rights
Una Nueva Normalidad
La pandemia del COVID-19 expone un sistema económico incapaz de satisfacer las necesidades de las personas y el planeta. Nuestra única solución para abordar esta crisis global, que ocurre en medio de una devastadora crisis climática, es unirnos y construir un mundo más justo, resistente y sostenible. Como miembros y aliados de la Campaña Global para Exigir Justicia Climática, hacemos 10 demandas iniciales a los gobiernos mientras responden a la pandemia.
La palabra apocalipsis proviene de la palabra revelación. La pandemia de COVID-19 está revelando lo que la mayoría global ha sabido todo el tiempo: que el sistema económico dominante prioriza las ganancias sobre las personas y el planeta.
Con cada nuevo día de infecciones, muertes y medios de vida destruidos, la pandemia está exponiendo las graves injusticias de nuestros sistemas existentes. Años de neoliberalismo, “ajustes estructurales” y austeridad han desmantelado el estado de bienestar social, específicamente la falta de recursos financieros y el desabastecimiento de los sistemas de salud en todo el mundo. Quedamos entonces en la paradójica situación de una carencia de equipos que salvan vidas y con excedentes de ganancias de las industrias contaminantes.
Las dimensiones del sufrimiento colectivo y del trauma individual son demasiado vastas para contemplarlas. Familias que enfrentan pérdidas o el encierro en relaciones abusivas; cuerpos que enfrentan enfermedades devastadoras; comunidades que enfrentan hambre y aislamiento.
Pero la pandemia también ha demostrado nuestra enorme fuerza colectiva y las posibilidades que surgen cuando una crisis se toma en serio y las personas se unen.
Para aquellxs de nosotrxs parte del movimiento global de justicia climática, las revelaciones de la pandemia no son una sorpresa. Durante décadas, como movimientos, hemos denunciado los efectos violentos de un sistema económico mundial desigual, la devastación de una crisis climática acelerada y las formas sorprendentemente crueles en las que los menos responsables soportan las cargas más pesadas. Durante décadas, hemos exigido el fin de un status quo que fue y sigue siendo una sentencia de muerte para las personas más pobres del mundo. La crisis del coronavirus es un claro recordatorio de un prolongado pasado, y nuestra respuesta es un ensayo general para el presente y para el futuro.
Justicia
Al igual que con la crisis climática, la crisis del coronavirus coloca las cargas más pesadas sobre los más vulnerables. Las personas más pobres se ven afectadas primero y de una peor manera. Esto exacerba las disparidades determinadas por la riqueza, el género, la clase, la raza, la (dis)capacidad y otros factores interseccionales. Los costos más altos están siendo cargados por quienes son menos capaces de pagarlos, aquellas personas quienes siempre fueron condenadas a asumir los costos.
Más claramente, quienes tienen mayor riesgo de contraer la infección son aquellas personas que tienen menos capacidad para aislarse.
Un encierro significa confinamiento en nuestros hogares. Pero algunos de nosotros con contamos con un hogar o vivimos con varios miembros de la familia. Algunos de nosotros hemos sido desplazados o vivimos en campos de refugiados o en centros de detención, o no contamos con acceso a agua potable ni con alcantarillado. Para algunos de nosotros, el hogar es el lugar de violencia y abuso, y quedarnos en casa significa terminar con nuestra actividad pública sobre la cual apoyamos nuestra subsistencia diaria. Algunos de nosotrxs no podemos quedarnos en casa porque trabajamos en los sectores más cruciales y vitales, como la agricultura sin protección, incluyendo muchos agricultores de escala familiar que alimentan a más de dos tercios del mundo.
Las mujeres llevan la carga más pesada del trabajo de los cuidados en nuestro sistema actual, en el hogar, en nuestras comunidades y también en la economía, ya que son la mayoría de las trabajadoras de la salud. Esta pandemia nos ha demostrado la importancia del trabajo del cuidado, el trabajo necesario para criar familias, cocinar, limpiar y cuidar a enfermxs y ancianxs. Debemos aprovechar este momento para comprender la importancia del trabajo del cuidado y compartirlo entre todos los pueblos y construir una sociedad y una economía basadas en principios feministas que afirmen el cuidado.
En muchos países, los servicios de salud, alimentación y servicios básicos son realizados por el trabajo de migrantes, muchos de los cuales no tienen voz, ni pueden acceder a recursos públicos y la mayoría de las veces realizan su trabajo con la mínima . Las voces de los migrantes son también ignoradas en las negociaciones climáticas. En tiempos de crisis son los más vulnerables , discriminados e ignorados
Las personas más afectadas por la crisis climática – las personas en el Sur Global que han enfrentado la violencia de la degradación ambiental, sequías prolongadas y desplazamientos forzados – , ahora se han convertido en una de las poblaciones más vulnerables al contagio y sus efectos. En áreas en donde la salud de las comunidades se ha debilitado por las industrias contaminantes, lo que conlleva a una variedad de afecciones respiratorias e inmunológicas, estas personas particularmente tienen mayor riesgo frente al COVID-19.
La pandemia ya está abriendo la puerta a una gran crisis económica, con una próxima recesión que hará que la gran mayoría de la población mundial, aquella que vive día a día con medios de vida precarios, se encuentre en una condición de pobreza aún más crónica. El riesgo de hambruna y de interrupciones profundas a la soberanía alimentaria es significativo. Los países del sur están cargados de deudas ilegítimas e insostenibles, acumuladas a través de décadas de préstamos depredadores y de explotación por parte de los gobiernos del norte, las instituciones financieras internacionales y los grandes bancos en colaboración con las élites y goviernos del sur, a través de prácticas autoritarias y corruptas de los gobiernos del sur. La priorización de los pagos de estas deudas ha tenido un alto costo en los servicios públicos y continúa asumiendo una gran parte del gasto público que debería asignarse a financiar las respuestas de salud pública a la pandemia.
Una Encrucijada
Nos encontramos en una encrucijada. Durante años, hemos exigido “cambiar el sistema, no el clima”. El cambio de sistema ahora parece más necesario que nunca, y más posible. Las reglas del juego están cambiando rápidamente. El cambio es inevitable.
La pregunta es: ¿qué tipo de cambio se está desarrollando? ¿Qué tipo de sistema está surgiendo? ¿Qué dirección tomará el cambio?
La gente en el poder está aprovechando la crisis para fortalecer el capitalismo del desastre y un nuevo autoritarismo, expandiendo los poderes policiales y militares, y acelerando los proyectos extractivos. Muchos gobiernos están aprovechando la oportunidad para impulsar medidas draconianas, vigilar a la población, socavar los derechos de los trabajadores, reprimir los derechos de los pueblos indígenas restringir la participación en la toma de decisiones, restringir el acceso a los servicios de salud sexual y reproductiva e instituir una vigilancia generalizada. En el peor de los casos, los actores represivos están utilizando el momento de inestabilidad política para sofocar violentamente la disidencia, legitimar el racismo, el fundamentalismo religioso, expandir las fronteras mineras depredadoras y ejecutar a los defensores y defensoras de la tierra.
Pero la crisis de la que están haciendo uso también representa una oportunidad para que nuestros movimientos den forma al futuro emergente. Nuestros movimientos conocen el camino a seguir, el tipo de mundo que necesitamos construir. En todo el mundo, las personas se están dando cuenta de que nuestro sistema económico dominante no satisface las necesidades de las personas. Están viendo claramente que las corporaciones y el mercado no nos salvarán. Se están dando cuenta de que cuando una crisis se toma en serio, los gobiernos son capaces de tomar medidas audaces y movilizar enormes recursos para enfrentarla. Los límites de lo posible pueden ser radicalmente sacudidos y reescritos. En cuestión de semanas, las propuestas de políticas que han sido largas campañas en muchos contextos (el fin de los desalojos, la liberación de prisionerxs, la audaz redistribución económica, por nombrar solo algunas) se han convertido en respuestas de sentido común y popularizadas.
Estamos viviendo un momento político convulsivo pero muy fértil. Nuestro mundo ha sido forzado a la solidaridad por un virus que ignora todas las fronteras; nuestra profunda interdependencia nunca ha sido más innegable.
En una crisis como esta, repensar y reinventar nuestro modelo económico es ineludible. Las soluciones resilientes y basadas en la justicia no solo son posibles, sino la única solución real.
Ahora está claro que necesitamos una respuesta de solidaridad, equidad y cuidado, con una inversión pública masiva que ponga a las personas y al planeta en primer lugar, no a las industrias contaminantes. Las recuperaciones basadas en la justicia y los nuevos acuerdos globales y nacionales para construir una economía regenerativa, distributiva y resiliente son necesarios y cada vez más políticamente factibles.
La Lucha por una Nueva Normalidad
No volveremos a una normalidad en la que el sufrimiento de muchxs aseguran los lujos de pocos. Si bien los políticos presionarán por una rápida reanudación del statu quo, no podemos volver a la normalidad, como han afirmado los movimientos sociales, cuando esa normalidad estaba matando gente y el planeta.
Nuestros movimientos de justicia climática se encuentran en una situación arriesgada y prometedora. La urgencia del colapso climático está pasando desapercibido, incluso cuando la violencia climática es implacable, expresada más recientemente en tormentas devastadoras en todo el Pacífico, incendios forestales en China y lluvias torrenciales en Colombia. A menos que tomemos este momento político, la acción climática estará en un segundo plano, y las economías en el rico Norte serán reforzadas y revividas con inversiones sucias que profundizan la crisis climática. Debemos tener atención y perseverancia y para asegurarnos de que abordar la crisis climática esté al frente y el centro de los rescates financieros y de los programas para garantizar la resiliencia de la sociedad y de todos los pueblos.
Nuestros movimientos tienen una experiencia que es invaluable en este momento. Si bien COVID-19 y la crisis climática pueden tener diferentes causas directas, sus causas fundamentales son las mismas: la dependencia del mercado, una falla del estado para abordar las amenazas a largo plazo, la ausencia de protección social y un modelo económico general que protege las inversiones sobre las vidas y el planeta. El mismo sistema extractivista que extrae, quema y destruye ecosistemas, es el mismo sistema que permite la propagación de patógenos peligrosos. Las soluciones para el COVID-19 y las crisis climáticas son las mismas: solidaridad, redistribución, colaboración, equidad y protección social. Es nuestra oportunidad y responsabilidad unir estos puntos y utilizar este momento político para enfrentar el poder corporativo y construir una sociedad más justa y sostenible.
Los Horizontes Que Podemos Reclamar
La pandemia ha cambiado el juego. Tenemos los recursos para construir un modelo económico que no destruya el planeta y provea para todxs. Tenemos el impulso para recuperarnos de esta crisis de una manera que fortalezca nuestra capacidad de recuperación y fortalezca nuestra dignidad como sociedades. Ahora es nuestro momento de reclamarlo.
Como miembros de la Campaña Global para Exigir Justicia Climática, exigimos una respuesta audaz y efectiva a la pandemia de COVID-19 que simultáneamente ayude a abordar la crisis climática más amplia y a transformar el sistema económico desigual que ha llevado a ambas.
Exigimos que los gobiernos:
Prioricen la salud y el bienestar de las personas. La gente debe estar valorada por sobre las ganancias, porque una economía no tiene valor sin su gente. Nadie es desechable. Financien y proporcionen recursos a los servicios de salud, asegurando la atención para todxs, sin excepción. Los gobiernos también deben priorizar la inversión robusta en otros servicios públicos esenciales, como el refugio seguro, el agua, la alimentación y el saneamiento. Estos servicios no solo son esenciales para detener la propagación de la enfermedad a largo plazo, sino que son obligaciones fundamentales de los gobiernos; respetar, proteger y cumplir los derechos humanos para todxs. Por lo tanto, no deben privatizarse y, en cambio, deben gestionarse de manera equitativa y públicamente responsable.
Garanticen la protección de las poblaciones marginadas. Brindar ayuda, protección social y ayuda a las poblaciones rurales y a las familias que las componen, que están a la vanguardia de la alimentación de nuestro mundo. También se debe garantizar una protección especial a los derechos sociales y humanos de todas las personas que se encuentran en circunstancias vulnerables y precarias, como las de personas sin hogar, personas en prisión, refugiadxs y migrantes, ancianxs en cuidados domiciliarios, huérfanxs y especialmente defensores y defensoras del medio ambiente que ahora están siendo asesinadxs con mayor frecuencia bajo la cobertura de la emergencia COVID-19.
Emitan medidas económicas y sociales inmediatas para proporcionar ayuda y seguridad a todxs, particularmente a los grupos más vulnerables y marginados de nuestras sociedades. Proteger los derechos laborales y garantizar la protección de todos los y las trabajadores/as, desde la economía formal hasta la informal garantizando un salario básico universal. Reconozcan, visibilicen y valoren el trabajo del cuidado, que es el trabajo real que nos sostiene durante esta crisis.
Los gobiernos deben cancelar los subsidios a los combustibles fósiles, y reorientar los fondos públicos lejos de los complejos industriales-militares y de las corporaciones privadas y utilizarlos en su lugar para garantizar el acceso a energía limpia, agua y servicios públicos importantes para el bienestar de las comunidades.
Hacemos un llamado a la inmediata suspensión de los pagos de la deuda de los países del sur correspondientes al 2020 y 2021 sin intereses o penalidades, para que esos fondos puedan ser usados por los servicios de salud para combatir el COVID 19 y para la asistencia económica a comunidades en donde las personas están enfrentado las mayores dificultades ante la pandemia. La sola suspensión de la deuda no es suficiente y simplemente retrasará el dolor que significa su pago. También exigimos el comienzo inmediato de un proceso internacional independiente para abordar la deuda ilegítima e insostenible para encontrar soluciones para la suspensión incondicional de la deuda para los países del sur.
Los países del sur deben también transformar su sistema tributario, aboliendo las vacaciones fiscales para las corporaciones multinacionales que socavan los ingresos, y abolir el impuesto al valor agregado de los impuestos a los servicios y bienes básicos. Se deben tomar pasos inmediatos para prohibir los flujos financieros ilícitos y los paraísos fiscales.
Apoyen una transición justa y una recuperación de la crisis a largo plazo, y asuman la crisis como una oportunidad para cambiar hacia economías socialmente justas resilientes al cambio climático y con cero emisiones. No podemos permitirnos rescates financieros que simplemente llenen los bolsillos de las corporaciones o rescaten las industrias contaminantes incompatibles con un planeta vivo. Por el contrario, necesitamos una recuperación económica que desarrolle resiliencia, acabe con las injusticias, restaure nuestros ecosistemas y lidere una disminución controlada de los combustibles fósiles y una transición orientada hacia una economía justa y sostenible. Los gobiernos deben priorizar los programas económicos que incluyan relaciones de comercio justo que prioricen las necesidades domésticas, ofreciendo empleos dignos y decentes a través de toda la economía incluyendo la economía del cuidado, la restauración ecológica, la agroecología, los servicios esenciales y una matriz energética renovable descentralizada necesarios para un mundo climáticamente justo.
Rechacen los esfuerzos para impulsar las llamadas “reformas estructurales” que solo sirven para profundizar la opresión, la desigualdad y el empobrecimiento, incluyendo aquellos por parte de instituciones financieras internacionales como el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional, que pueden utilizar la pandemia para impulsar esquemas en el Sur Global bajo el pretexto de “acortar el tiempo de recuperación”. Los pilares neoliberales de austeridad, desregulación y privatización, especialmente de servicios esenciales como agua, salud, educación, etc., han devastado a las personas en todo el mundo y son incompatibles con una recuperación justa.
Refuercen la cooperación internacional y la solidaridad entre pueblos. Los problemas globales que no respetan fronteras, ya sea el clima o la crisis COVID-19, solo pueden tener soluciones cooperativas y equitativas. En un mundo profundamente desigual, es crucial transferir tecnología y recursos económicos de los países más ricos a los más pobres. Los gobiernos deben facilitar en lugar de ocultar los esfuerzos de los movimientos de la gente, los grupos ciudadanos los pueblos indígenas y las organizaciones de la sociedad civil para enlazar la cooperación mutua más allá de las fronteras y los países. También llamamos a los gobiernos a que cumplan con su responsabilidad histórica y que dejen de usar tácticas que descartan esa responsabilidad y retrasan una fuerte respuesta internacional, – como retener fondos de la OMS y otras instituciones en tiempos de crisis.
Colaboren en el desarrollo y el acceso irrestricto a las vacunas y a los avances médicos de los medicamentos de terapia experimental, liderados por los principios de cooperación internacional y distribución gratuita. Necesitamos garantizar que todas las vacunas del COVID 19 lleguen a todxs, ningún gobierno puede monopolizar su compra, ni ninguna entidad su producción.
Dejen de inmediato los proyectos extractivos, desde la minería hasta los combustibles fósiles y la agricultura industrial, incluidos los proyectos extraterritoriales realizados por corporaciones con sede en su país, que están acelerando las crisis ecológicas, invadiendo territorios indígenas, y poniendo en riesgo a las comunidades.
Rechacen cualquier intento de las corporaciones e industrias a renunciar a su responsabilidad. Los actores que son responsables, en muchos sentidos, de esta crisis multifacética y un sistema roto no pueden tener lagunas que les permitan escapar de la responsabilidad de sus abusos a nivel doméstico y en todo el mundo.
Los gobiernos no deben aprovechar esta crisis para impulsar medidas draconianas incluyendo la expansión de los poderes de la policía y los militares que vulneran los derechos de los trabajadores, reprimen los pueblos indígenas, restringen la participación pública en la toma de decisiones, restringen el acceso a los servicios de salud sexual y reproductiva, o amplían la vigilancia encubierta en esta crisis.
UNE NOUVELLE NORMALITÉ
La pandémie de COVID-19 expose un système économique incapable de répondre aux besoins des populations et de la planète. Notre seule solution pour faire face à cette crise mondiale, qui survient au milieu d’une crise climatique dévastatrice, est de nous unir et de construire un monde plus juste, plus résistant et plus durable. En tant que membres et alliés de la Campagne mondiale pour exiger la justice climatique, nous formulons une première série de demandes aux gouvernements dans le cadre de leur réponse à la pandémie.
Le mot apocalypse vient du mot « révélation ». La pandémie de COVID-19 révèle ce que la majorité mondiale sait depuis le début : que le système économique dominant privilégie les profits au détriment des gens et de la planète.
Avec chaque nouveau jour d’infections, de décès et de destruction des moyens de subsistance, la pandémie met en évidence les injustices flagrantes de nos systèmes existants. Des années de néolibéralisme, « d’ajustement structurel » et d’austérité ont démantelé l’État-providence social, en sous-finançant et en vidant particulièrement les systèmes de santé dans le monde entier. Nous nous retrouvons avec des déficits en matière d’équipements de sauvetage et des excédents d’industries polluantes.
Les dimensions de la souffrance collective et du traumatisme individuel qui se déploient sont trop vastes à envisager. Des familles confrontées à la perte ou au confinement dans des relations abusives ; des corps confrontés à des maladies dévastatrices ; des communautés confrontées à la faim et à l’isolement.
Mais la pandémie a également montré notre énorme force collective et les possibilités qui se présentent lorsqu’une crise est prise au sérieux et que les gens se rassemblent.
Pour ceux d’entre nous qui font partie du mouvement mondial pour la justice climatique, la propagation de la pandémie n’est pas une surprise. Depuis des décennies, en tant que mouvements, nous dénonçons les effets violents d’un système économique mondial inégal, les ravages d’une crise climatique qui s’accélère et la manière scandaleusement cruelle dont les moins responsables en portent le plus lourd fardeau. Depuis des décennies, nous exigeons la fin d’un statu quo qui était et continue d’être une condamnation à mort pour les plus pauvres du monde. La crise du coronavirus est un rappel brutal d’un passé prolongé, et notre réponse à cette crise est une répétition générale pour le présent et l’avenir.
La justice
Comme pour la crise climatique, la crise COVID-19 fait peser le plus lourd fardeau sur les personnes les plus vulnérables. Les plus pauvres sont les premiers et les plus touchés. La crise accentue les disparités liées à la richesse, au sexe, à la classe sociale, à la race, à la (in)capacité et à d’autres facteurs. Les coûts les plus élevés sont supportés par ceux qui sont le moins en mesure de les payer et qui ont toujours été condamnés à supporter de tels coûts.
Il est clair que les personnes les plus exposées au risque d’infection sont celles qui sont le moins capables de s’isoler.
Le confinement signifie l’enfermement dans nos maisons. Mais certains d’entre nous sont sans domicile, ou vivent avec plusieurs membres de la famille et parents dans une seule maison. Certains d’entre nous sont dans des camps de personnes déplacées ou de réfugiés, ou dans des centres de détention, ou n’ont pas accès à l’eau courante et aux installations sanitaires. Pour certains d’entre nous, la maison est le lieu de la violence et des abus, et rester à la maison signifie la fin de l’activité publique sur laquelle nous comptons pour notre subsistance quotidienne. Certains d’entre nous ne peuvent pas rester à la maison parce qu’ils travaillent, sans protection, dans les secteurs les plus cruciaux et les plus vitaux comme l’agriculture, et notamment un grand nombre d’agriculteurs de subsistance et d’agriculteurs familiaux qui nourrissent plus des deux tiers de la population mondiale.
Les femmes et les jeunes filles sont les plus touchées par le travail de soins dans notre système actuel, à la maison, dans nos communautés et aussi dans l’économie, car elles constituent la majorité des travailleurs de la santé. Cette pandémie nous a montré l’importance du travail de soins, le travail nécessaire pour élever les familles, pour cuisiner et nettoyer et pour prendre soin des malades et des personnes âgées. Elle nous a montré l’impact profond du manque de services publics et d’institutions sociales pour le travail de soins. Nous devons profiter de ce moment pour comprendre l’importance du travail de soins, le partager entre tous les peuples, et construire une société et une économie qui prennent en charge le travail de soins sur la base de principes féministes et d’affirmation des soins.
Les secteurs de la santé, de l’alimentation et des services de base d’un grand nombre de pays sont soutenus par la main-d’œuvre migrante, dont beaucoup n’ont pas de voix et pas de recours aux fonds publics, et sont souvent les moins protégés. Les voix des migrants sont également le plus souvent ignorées dans les discussions sur le climat. En temps de crise, qu’il s’agisse de santé ou de calamités naturelles, ils sont parmi les plus vulnérables, discriminés et ignorés.
Les populations les plus touchées par la crise climatique, à savoir les populations du Sud qui ont fait face à la violence, à la dégradation de l’environnement, aux sécheresses prolongées et aux déplacements forcés, sont désormais parmi les populations les plus vulnérables à la contagion et à ses effets. Dans les régions où la santé des communautés a été affaiblie par les industries polluantes ayant entraîné toute une série de problèmes respiratoires et immunologiques, les gens sont particulièrement exposés au COVID-19.
La pandémie ouvre déjà la porte à une crise économique majeure, avec une récession prochaine qui amènera la grande majorité de la population mondiale qui vit au quotidien avec des moyens de subsistance précaires, à vivre dans une pauvreté encore plus chronique. Le risque de famine et de profondes perturbations de la souveraineté alimentaire est énorme. Les pays du Sud sont accablés d’une dette illégitime et insoutenable, laquelle a été accumulée au cours de décennies de prêts exploiteurs et prédateurs par les gouvernements du Nord, les institutions financières internationales et les grandes banques en collaboration avec les élites du Sud et les gouvernements du Sud aux pratiques autoritaires et corrompues. La priorité accordée au paiement de ces dettes a fait payer un lourd tribut aux services publics, et continue d’absorber une part énorme des dépenses publiques qui devraient plutôt être affectées aux réponses de santé publique à la pandémie.
À la croisée des chemins
Nous sommes à la croisée des chemins. Depuis des années, nous demandons « un changement de système et non pas un changement de climat ». Le changement de système semble maintenant plus nécessaire que jamais, et plus possible. Les règles du jeu changent rapidement. Les bouleversements sont inévitables.
La question est de savoir quel type de changement est en train de se produire. Quel type de système émergera ? Quelle direction prendra le changement ?
Les puissants profitent de la crise pour faire avancer le capitalisme de catastrophe et un nouvel autoritarisme, s’accordent des pouvoirs policiers et militaires étendus, et se précipitent dans des projets d’extraction. De nombreux gouvernements saisissent l’occasion pour faire adopter des mesures draconiennes, contrôler la population, saper les droits des travailleurs, réprimer les droits des peuples autochtones, restreindre la participation du public à la prise de décision, limiter l’accès aux services de santé sexuelle et reproductive et instituer une surveillance généralisée. Dans les pires situations, les acteurs répressifs profitent du moment d’instabilité politique pour réprimer violemment la dissidence, légitimer le racisme et le fondamentalisme religieux, faire avancer les frontières minières prédatrices, et exécuter les défenseurs des terres.
Mais la crise dont ils se servent, offre également une opportunité pour nos mouvements de façonner l’avenir émergent. Nos mouvements connaissent la voie à suivre, le type de monde qu’ils doivent construire. Partout dans le monde, les gens se rendent compte que notre système économique dominant ne répond pas aux besoins des gens. Ils voient clairement que les entreprises et le marché ne nous sauveront pas. Ils constatent que lorsqu’une crise est prise au sérieux, les gouvernements sont capables de prendre des mesures audacieuses et de mobiliser d’énormes ressources pour y faire face. Les limites du possible peuvent être radicalement ébranlées et réécrites. En quelques semaines, les propositions politiques longtemps défendues dans de nombreux contextes (fin des expulsions, libération des prisonniers, redistribution économique audacieuse, pour n’en citer que quelques-unes) sont devenues des réponses raisonnables et acceptables.
Nous vivons un moment politique violent mais très fertile. Notre monde a été contraint à la solidarité par un virus qui ignore toutes les frontières ; notre profonde interdépendance n’a jamais été aussi indéniable.
Dans une telle crise, il est inévitable de repenser et de réimaginer notre modèle économique. Des solutions résistantes et fondées sur la justice sont non seulement possibles, mais les seules véritables solutions.
Il est désormais clair que nous avons besoin d’une réponse fondée sur la solidarité, l’équité et les soins, et soutenue par des investissements publics massifs qui mettent les gens et la planète au premier plan, et non les industries polluantes et les profiteurs. Des reprises justes et de nouveaux accords mondiaux et nationaux pour construire une économie régénératrice, distributive et résiliente sont à la fois nécessaires et de plus en plus politiquement réalisables.
La lutte pour une nouvelle normalité
Nous ne reviendrons pas à une situation normale dans laquelle la souffrance du plus grand nombre garantissait le luxe de quelques-uns. Alors que les politiciens feront pression pour une reprise rapide du statu quo, nous ne pouvons pas revenir à la normale, comme l’ont affirmé les mouvements sociaux, car cette normale tuait les gens et la planète.
Nos mouvements pour la justice climatique sont dans une situation à la fois périlleuse et prometteuse. L’urgence de la dégradation du climat est passée inaperçue, alors même que la violence climatique est implacable, ce qui s’est exprimé tout récemment par des tempêtes dévastatrices dans le Pacifique, des incendies de forêt en Chine et des pluies torrentielles en Colombie. Si nous ne saisissons pas ce moment politique, l’action en faveur du climat sera mise en veilleuse et les économies des pays riches du Nord seront dynamisées et relancées par des investissements sales qui aggraveront la crise climatique. Nous devons être vigilants et persévérants pour que la lutte contre la crise climatique soit au cœur des plans de sauvetage et des programmes visant à garantir la résilience de la société et de tous les peuples.
Nos mouvements disposent d’une expertise qui est inestimable en ce moment. Si COVID-19 et la crise climatique peuvent avoir des causes directes différentes, leurs causes profondes sont les mêmes : une dépendance au marché, une incapacité de l’État à faire face aux menaces à long terme, l’absence de protection sociale et un modèle économique global qui privilégie les investissements par rapport aux vies et à la planète. Le même système extractiviste qui extrait, brûle et détruit les écosystèmes, est le même système qui permet aux pathogènes dangereux de se propager. Les solutions au COVID-19 et aux crises climatiques sont les mêmes : solidarité, redistribution, collaboration, équité et protection sociale. Nous avons la possibilité et la responsabilité de combler les lacunes, et de profiter de ce moment politique pour affronter le pouvoir des entreprises et construire une société plus juste et plus durable.
Les horizons que nous pouvons revendiquer
La pandémie a changé la donne. Nous détenons les ressources pour construire un modèle économique qui ne détruise pas la planète et qui pourvoit aux besoins de tous. Nous poursuivons l’élan pour sortir de cette crise de manière à renforcer notre résilience et notre dignité en tant que sociétés. Le moment est venu pour saisir l’élan impulsé.
En tant que membres de la Campagne mondiale pour exiger la justice climatique, nous exigeons une réponse audacieuse à la pandémie de COVID-19 qui permette à la fois de s’attaquer à la crise climatique au sens large et de transformer le système économique inégal qui a provoqué ces deux phénomènes.
Nous exigeons que les gouvernements :
Donnent la priorité à la santé et au bien-être des gens. Il faut toujours privilégier les gens par rapport au profit, car une économie ne vaut rien sans ses populations. Personne n’est jetable. Il faut entièrement financer et doter de ressources les services et systèmes de santé, en garantissant des soins pour tous, sans exception. Les gouvernements doivent également donner la priorité à des investissements solides dans d’autres services publics essentiels, tels que le logement sûr, l’eau, la nourriture et l’assainissement. Ces services sont non seulement essentiels pour endiguer la propagation de la maladie à long terme, mais ils sont au cœur de l’obligation des gouvernements de respecter, protéger et réaliser les droits de l’homme pour tous. C’est pourquoi ils ne doivent pas être privatisés mais doivent au contraire être gérés de manière équitable et responsable vis-à-vis du public.
Garantissent la protection des populations marginalisées. Il faut fournir une aide, une protection sociale et un secours aux populations rurales et aux familles qui les composent, qui sont en première ligne pour nourrir notre monde. Une protection spéciale doit également être garantie pour les droits sociaux et humains de toutes les personnes placées dans des situations vulnérables et précaires, comme les sans-abri, les gens en prison, les réfugiés et les migrants, les personnes âgées en foyer, les orphelins, et surtout les défenseurs de l’environnement qui sont aujourd’hui assassinés encore plus fréquemment sous le couvert de l’urgence COVID-19.
Prennent des mesures économiques et sociales immédiates pour apporter secours et sécurité à tous, en particulier aux groupes les plus vulnérables et marginalisés de nos sociétés. Il faut protéger les droits du travail et garantir la protection de tous les travailleurs, de l’économie formelle à l’économie informelle, et garantir un revenu de base universel. Il faut reconnaître, rendre visible et valoriser tout le travail de soins, le vrai travail qui nous soutient pendant cette crise.
Cessent de subventionner les combustibles fossiles et réorientent les fonds publics utilisés par le complexe militaro-industriel et les entreprises privées, vers l’accès à l’énergie propre, à l’eau et aux services publics importants pour le bien-être des communautés.
Annulent immédiatement les paiements de la dette des pays du Sud dus en 2020 et 2021, sans accumulation d’intérêts ni de pénalités, afin que les fonds puissent être affectés aux services de santé dans la lutte contre le COVID19 et à l’aide économique aux communautés et aux personnes qui sont confrontées à des difficultés plus grandes face à la pandémie et aux réponses. Une simple suspension des paiements ne suffit pas, et ne fera que retarder la douleur du service de la dette. Nous exigeons également le lancement immédiat d’un processus international indépendant pour traiter les dettes illégitimes et insoutenables et les crises de la dette afin d’ouvrir la voie à une annulation inconditionnelle de la dette pour tous les pays du Sud.
Transforment également les systèmes fiscaux, en supprimant les congés fiscaux pour les sociétés multinationales qui sapent les revenus, et en abolissant la taxe sur la valeur ajoutée et les taxes sur les biens et services liés aux produits de base. Il faut prendre des mesures immédiates pour mettre fin aux flux financiers illicites et fermer les paradis fiscaux.
Soutiennent une transition et une reprise justes à long terme pour sortir de la crise, et saisissent l’occasion de passer à des économies équitables, socialement justes, résistantes au climat et sans carbone. Nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre des renflouements qui ne font que remplir les poches des entreprises ou sauver des industries polluantes incompatibles avec une planète vivante. Nous avons plutôt besoin d’une reprise économique qui renforce la résilience, dissout les injustices, restaure nos écosystèmes et entraîne un déclin maîtrisé des combustibles fossiles et une transition axée sur la justice vers une économie équitable et durable. Les gouvernements devraient poursuivre des programmes économiques fondés sur des relations commerciales justes qui donnent la priorité aux besoins intérieurs et aux emplois dignes et décents dans l’ensemble de l’économie, notamment l’économie des soins, la restauration écologique et l’agro-écologie, les services essentiels et l’énergie renouvelable décentralisé. Tous ces éléments sont nécessaires pour un monde équitable et juste sur le plan climatique.
Rejettent les efforts visant à promouvoir des « réformes structurelles » qui ne font qu’aggraver l’oppression, les inégalités et l’appauvrissement, y compris ceux des institutions financières internationales telles que la Banque mondiale et le Fonds monétaire international, qui pourraient utiliser la pandémie pour promouvoir des projets dans les pays du Sud sous le prétexte de « réduire le temps nécessaire vers la reprise ». Les piliers néolibéraux de l’austérité, de la déréglementation et de la privatisation, en particulier des services essentiels tels que l’eau, la santé, et l’éducation, ont dévasté les populations du monde entier et sont incompatibles avec une juste reprise.
Renforcent la coopération internationale et la solidarité entre les peuples. Les problèmes mondiaux qui ne respectent aucune frontière, tels que la crise climatique ou la crise COVID-19, ne peuvent avoir que des solutions coopératives et équitables. Dans un monde profondément inégalitaire, le transfert de technologie et de finances des pays les plus riches vers les pays les plus pauvres est crucial. Les gouvernements devraient faciliter plutôt qu’entraver les efforts des mouvements populaires, des groupes de citoyens, des peuples autochtones et des organisations de la société civile pour établir des liens au-delà des frontières et des pays afin de se soutenir mutuellement. Nous demandons également aux gouvernements d’honorer leur responsabilité historique et de cesser d’utiliser des tactiques qui rejettent cette responsabilité et retardent une réponse internationale forte, comme par exemple la retenue des fonds de l’OMS et des autres institutions en temps de crise.
Collaborent à la mise au point de vaccins et à l’accès illimité à ceux-ci, ainsi qu’à toute percée médicale de médicaments de thérapie expérimentale, guidés par des principes de coopération internationale et de distribution gratuite. Nous devons nous assurer que tout vaccin COVID-19 sera accessible à tous et qu’aucun pays ne pourra être le seul acheteur, et aucune entité le seul producteur.
Cessent immédiatement les projets d’extraction, de l’exploitation minière aux combustibles fossiles en passant par l’agriculture industrielle, y compris les projets extraterritoriaux entrepris par des sociétés ayant leur siège dans votre pays, qui accélèrent les crises écologiques, empiètent sur les territoires indigènes et mettent les communautés en danger.
Rejettent toute tentative d’exonération de responsabilitédes entreprises et des industries. Les acteurs qui sont responsables, à bien des égards, de cette crise aux multiples facettes et du système déficient, ne peuvent absolument pas se voir accorder des échappatoires leur permettant d’échapper à la responsabilité de leurs abus dans leur pays et dans le monde entier.
Ne profitent pas de la crise pour faire adopter des mesures draconiennes, notamment l’extension des pouvoirs de la police et de l’armée qui sapent les droits des travailleurs, répriment les droits des peuples autochtones, restreignent la participation du public à la prise de décision, limitent l’accès aux services de santé sexuelle et reproductive ou instituent une surveillance généralisée sous couvert de la crise.
