Resisting Green Imperialism, Fighting for a Socially Just Transition

When: 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, November 30, 2024
Where: Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd, Tottenham Green, London, London, N15 4RX GB
Campaigns: Climate, Trade

London Mining Network is hosting an in-person event exploring how to stop the much-needed shift to renewable energy from fuelling green imperialism. Hear from communities and campaigners on the frontlines of resistance to mining companies, and meet and join leading movements to discuss how to bring a socially just transition into reality.

The world needs to decarbonise rapidly if we are to avert catastrophic climate breakdown. But the “green” transition currently pushed by states and corporations would mean huge increases in mineral mining, with devastating consequences for land, water, biodiversity and the millions of people who depend on these for their homes and livelihood.

The mining companies positioning themselves as saviours of the planet are often the same companies continuing to extract fossil fuels. Instead of offering genuine climate solutions, they are complicit in intensified exploitation, displacement and dispossession of Indigenous communities and environmental destruction.

A globally just transition must break away from logics of endless growth and accumulation, and account for the ecological and colonial debt between the Global North and South.

Who should guide such a transition? Who decides how much mining is necessary and where it takes place? How do we build solidarity between communities on the frontlines of resistance to green imperialism and workers and anti-imperialist movements in the UK organising for justice?

Through workshops and creative activities, an interactive exhibition, and stalls with dozens of grassroots campaigns, we will explore these urgent questions.

Book your place

This event is organised by London Mining Network, of which Global Justice Now is a member. We’ll be running a stall at the event, so come and say hello.