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Climate Justice

Reporting from COP 23 and more

Climate Justice

Reporting from COP 23 and more

Downstream: Climate Change Is Violent, That’s Why We Need Sabotage. Aaron Bastani Meets Andreas Malm

From food scarcity to extreme weather, climate change will affect the lives of billions of people around the world. But at what point are its future horrors unacceptable? And how should that shape climate politics now? Aaron Bastani speaks to author Andreas Malm about the limits of today’s activism and what is to be done […]

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

by Chris Saltmarsh

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?

by Suzanne Dhaliwal and Jade Begay

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.

Novara FM: 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.

Interview: 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

by Mika Minio-Paluello

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

by Aaron Bastani

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

Explainers: Germany Won’t Save the Environment

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

by Fanny Malinen

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?

by Nicholas Beuret

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

by Clare Hymer and Maddy Hodgson

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.

Explainers: 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.

Explainers: 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

by Clare Hymer and Dalia Gebrial

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.

Explainers: 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.

Climate Justice Focus Week

What is climate justice? This week Clare Hymer and Dalia Gebrial are in Bonn at the COP23 negotiations reporting on the side of the climate story you usually don’t hear.

Interview: Interview with Asad Rehman

As part of Novara Media's Climate Justice focus week Dalia Gebrial interviewed executive director of War on Want Asad Rehman. They discussed COP23, migration, the Labour manifesto and more.

500 Fires in One Day: Lessons From Portugal

by António Ferraz De Oliveira

Wildfires on the Iberian Atlantic coast have burnt an area of over 58,000 hectares and caused the deaths of at least 45 people. With the government downplaying accusations of mismanagement, the prevention of future catastrophes has to start with comprehensive environmental action.

3 Ways Inequality is at the Heart of Hurricane Irma’s Destruction

by Leon Sealey-Huggins

Commentators have long been telling us that extreme weather events like Hurricane Irma will become more intense the longer we fail to address the causes of climate change. What's widely ignored in coverage of natural disasters, however, is the role played by inequality.

7 Reasons We’re Taking Direct Action Against Fracking in Lancashire

by Chris Saltmarsh and Leah Lapautre

After years of popular opposition being ignored by both the government and fracking company Cuadrilla, protectors in Lancashire are resorting to direct action to stop the proposed first fracking site in the UK. Here are seven reasons why two protectors are taking part in the blockades.

Long Read: Campesinos Against Climate Change: The Fight for Economic Justice in Colombia

by Milo Phillips

In the second of our features on social justice movements in Colombia, Milo Phillips reports on how climate change and neoliberal economic reforms have endangered the livelihoods of farmers - and how they are fighting back.

6 Reasons We Need an Intersectional Approach to Climate Change

by Maddy Winters

At the recent London Climate March, stewards tried to push the Global South bloc to the back of the protest, exemplifying the way NGOs routinely sanitise the environmental movement in spite of the people worst affected by climate change.

Novara FM: Post-Colonial Ecologies

On this weeks #NovaraFM Ash Sarkar discusses climate, conquest and capitalism with Anna Lau from Platform, a group involved in ecological justice movements, and James Butler.