Climate Justice Action (CJA) is transnational coalition of organizations that seeks to prevent
climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to ...
and achieve
climate justice. CJA formed as part of the alternative mobilisation around the
2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and organised mass
Direct actions during the conference.
Aims
The Network has a strong emphasis on
climate justice, and has the following goals:
* To promote and strengthen the rights and voices of Indigenous and affected peoples (including workers) in confronting the
climate crisis
''Climate crisis'' is a term describing global warming and climate change, and their impacts. The term and the alternative term ''climate emergency'' have been used to describe the threat of global warming to humanity (and their planet), and to u ...
. To support
reparations
Reparation(s) may refer to:
Christianity
* Restitution (theology), the Christian doctrine calling for reparation
* Acts of reparation, prayers for repairing the damages of sin
History
*War reparations
**World War I reparations, made from G ...
and the repayment of
ecological debt
Ecological debt refers to the supposed accumulation of debt of the Global North to Global South countries, due to the net sum of historical environmental injustice, especially through resource exploitation, habitat degradation, and pollution by w ...
to the Global South by industrialized rich countries
* To build a global movement for climate justice that encourages urgent action to avoid catastrophic climate change.
* To highlight the critical role of biodiversity in weathering the climate crisis, and to defend the existence of all species.
* To expose the roles of false and market-based climate “solutions” as well as corporate domination of climate negotiations in worsening the climate crisis.
* To advance alternatives that can provide real and just solutions to the climate crisis.
* To both sharpen our understanding of, and to address, the root social, ecological, political and economic causes of the climate crisis toward a total systemic transformation of our society.
* Our network is committed to working with respect, trust and unity towards these goals.
Documents
CJA has produced the following documents:
CJA aims and principcals of workingCall for action (ahead of Copenhagen climate summit)Discussion paper: What does climate justice mean in europe
News articles
Guardian article: copenhagen-activist-trialGuardian article:copenhagen-police-tactics-revealed
See also
*
Climate Justice Now
References
External links
Climate Justice Action website
International climate change organizations
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