Blogs
Why climate change and migration are unavoidably linked
By: Ruth Wilkinson
Date: 18 February 2019
Campaigns: Climate
Across the world, two issues have everyone’s attention – immigration and climate change. It’s easy to think those two things are unconnected, but like so many issues of global inequality, […]
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Will 2019 be the year that Scotland sets a path to zero climate change emissions?
By: Liz Murray
Date: 12 February 2019
Campaigns: Climate
If rich countries are to do what’s really needed to avert climate breakdown, then there is no option but to go for zero emissions – and soon. With a new climate change bill going through the Scottish parliament, now is the time for Scotland to do that.
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Leading the world backwards: Governments are merely agreeing to disagree on trade and global warming
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 4 December 2018
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
As world leaders finalised the Group of Twenty’s (G20) Agreements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, government and civil society climate representatives started arriving in Katowice, Poland for the 24th Conference of […]
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Climate breakdown is a crisis, let’s act like it is
By: Anoushka
Date: 30 November 2018
Campaigns: Climate
Many of the common responses to climate change focus on consumer choices; driving less, buying an electric car, meat-free Mondays, ‘eco’ light-bulbs, reusable coffee cups, in other words: faux solutions […]
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Climate justice and extinction
By: Sam Lund-Harket
Date: 19 November 2018
Campaigns: Climate
I rebelled this Saturday. The plan was to block five London bridges and get dozens of people arrested as a way of growing the movement against climate change. Thousands of […]
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The occupations and protests at Hambach Forest in Germany are a global flashpoint for the climate movement
By: Cameron Joshi
Date: 23 October 2018
Campaigns: Climate
Hambach Forest was a 12,000 year old, 5,500 hectare behemoth, but over the last 40 years 90% of it has been cut down for coal mining. Rich in biodiversity, the […]
Read moreUN Binding Treaty – Common position paper for UK civil society
Type: Campaign briefings, Other
Date: 12 October 2018
Campaigns: Climate
Ahead of a week of negotiations on the UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights in Geneva in October, the UK civil society working group on the Binding Treaty has produced a common position paper for UK government and parliamentary advocacy.
Read moreRising for climate, jobs and justice: get the frack out of our pension funds
By: Anoushka
Date: 3 October 2018
Campaigns: Climate
This summer Scandinavian scientists watched thousands-of-years-old ice melt in just a matter of weeks, whilst wildfires in the Swedish Arctic circle spread rapidly due to hot, dry conditions, and fire tornadoes burnt through parts of California. Crop failures hit Europe and 1000 people in the UK died due to heat-related illnesses. The strongest typhoon to hit Japan’s mainland in 25 years killed 200 people, and 69,000 people died and hundreds of thousands were displaced in Kerala, Southern India due to an incredibly intense rainy season. On top of that, rates of sea level rise have tripled over the past five years. Are we witnessing the end of ‘normality’?
Read moreEnding corporate impunity
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 31 July 2018
Campaigns: Climate
The struggle to bring about a binding UN treaty on transnational corporations and human rights
The Third Session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with respect to human rights in October 2017. Global Justice Now will continue efforts in order to build a UN Binding Treaty on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and their supply chains.
Read moreLeaflet: Change the system, not the climate
Type: Leaflets
Date: 1 March 2018
Campaigns: Climate
The effects of global warming are already wreaking havoc in many parts of the world. From hurricanes to drought, catastrophic events linked to climate change are hitting people in the […]
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