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Focus: Climate Justice

Divestment Is Now Mainstream. What Next for the Radical Climate Justice Movement?

Last week the University of Edinburgh joined universities and municipal governments across the globe in divesting from the fossil fuel industry. As divestment becomes mainstream, where does the radical climate justice movement go from here?

COP23 Is Over. What Did It Really Mean for Indigenous People?

Many have hailed COP23 as a milestone in terms of its inclusion of indigenous people in negotiations. However, grassroots indigenous groups see it very differently.

Climate and Capital: After COP23

James Butler is joined by Asad Rehman and Suzanne Dhaliwal to talk about climate change, global justice, and the aftermath of the latest conference in Bonn.

Climate, Military and Global Solidarity

Whilst in Bonn Dalia Gebrial had the pleasure of interviewing Tetet Lauron of IBON International on a subject seldom discussed in UK discourses on climate change. The relationship between climate justice and the role of the military in climate catastrophe.

Climate Change Is Class War – and Fighting It Is a Workers’ Struggle

The climate justice movement is weaker than it should be because workers' struggles weren't embedded within it from the get go, argues Mika Minio-Paluello.

Long Read: Fully Automated Green Communism

How can we secure luxury for all without careering even faster towards climate catastrophe? Aaron Bastani discusses.

Germany Won’t Save the Environment

Norwegian Court Case Over Arctic Drilling Shows Where the Climate Movement Is Heading

A landmark Norwegian court case, if won, could have monumental implications for climate activism, setting an international precedent for climate lawsuits happening all over the world.

Long Read: Refusing Survival: What Happens If We Don’t Save the World From Climate Change?

After decades of global negotiations and ‘last chances', the creeping feeling that it’s too late to stop catastrophic climate change is rapidly becoming common sense. So what do we do if we can’t save the world?

5 Reasons Climate Change is a Feminist Issue

From the murder of indigenous women fighting resource extraction to carbon footprint reduction initiatives that focus largely on the domestic sphere, climate change is a crisis that is fundamentally gendered. Here are five reasons climate change is a feminist issue.

What is Climate Debt?

We asked Climate Justice activist Lidy Nacpil to explain it for you. Nacpil is a dedicated and patient organiser with over 30 years of experience campaigning on issues of climate change, gender equality, tax justice and human rights.

5 Climate Demands From the Indigenous Frontlines

We rarely hear or see Indigenous demands being centered in global negotiations such as the COP23 talks happening in Bonn. In this collaboration with the Indigenous Environmental Network we bring you 5 Climate Demands from the Indigenous Frontlines.

5 Reasons Not to Be An Environmentalist

Narratives and strategies that frame the environment as abstracted from people and power aren't going to halt climate change. Here are five reasons not to be an environmentalist.

Report From #Klimademo COP23 Bonn

As part of our Climate Justice focus week Dalia Gebrial and Clare Hymer attended the #Klimademo in Bonn to speak to some of the attendees about climate justice.

COPs Aren’t Going to Save the World

Tomorrow hundreds of global leaders will descend on the German city of Bonn for COP23 – the next round of climate talks. Clare Hymer explains why COPs aren’t going to save the world from climate apocalypse.