Climate Justice
Focus contributes to the movement for climate justice by linking the climate debates – both inside and outside the framework of the UNFCCC -- with our ongoing work on trade, the commons, land and agrarian reform, finance, development and economic globalisation and by helping to build a broad-based global movement with the strong involvement of social movements from the Global South, and especially women, farmers, fishers, Indigenous Peoples, forest communities and workers.
Through our work, we aim to
• Replace the current market-based response to climate change as exemplified by the Kyoto protocol with genuine alternatives based on ‘common but differentiated responsibilities and capabilities’ to achieve social, economic, gender and ecological justice
• Build local, national and international climate justice coalitions
• Influence government responses to the climate and energy crises
Download the Climate Justice Programme Work Plan for 2010 here
Latest Articles
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 12:25
We invite civil society representatives from the South East Asian region to a workshop on the state of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the future of carbon markets. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was created with the aim and responsibility to tackle global climate mitigation and advance sustainable development. In recent years the CDM has been heavily criticized for not achieving this dual objective. Part of the problem lies in the lack of proper means for public engagement and the CDM’s lack...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 12:40
From August 9-11, 2010, Focus on the Global South, the Foundation for Ecological Recovery/TERRA, World Rainforest Movement (WRM), International Rivers, Bank Information Centre and the Thai Working Group on Climate Justice (TCJ), organised a workshop entitled “Food, Livelihoods and Climate Change in the Mekong Region”. The workshop was held at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and attended by 52 representatives of local networks and civil society organizations from Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand,...
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 12:45
Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South. April 2011*Climate change and the climate crisis generally refer to alterations to the Earth’s climate systems that result from human activities (also called anthropogenic climate change). The burning of fossil fuels, extraction and exploitation of natural resources, production-consumption of energy and industrial goods, and high consumption lifestyles are all high emitters of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), which are responsible in great part for the...
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