Perspectives On A Global Green New Deal

Natural resources have been plundered from the global South for centuries - and yet those countries are now in debt. We need cancellations - and also reparations.

Southern countries, rich in minerals, are being forced to even export more resources to sustain the industries of developed countries.

The Polluters Out’s (PO) twitter campaign showed the power of social media in garnering the attention of BP’s chief executive and directors.

Corporate profiteering and state repression in Nigeria’s Oil Niger Delta must end as part of any just Green New Deal.

In 2015, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian small-scale farmer, sued the German energy giant RWE, the biggest single emitter of CO2 in Europe.

If Western states are to adopt the Green New Deal policies needed to ensure our survival, they themselves will need to be radically transformed.

The original New Deal has credited with saving the US economy from the Great Depression and, perhaps, saving the country from socialism.

Tens of millions to up to a billion people could be displaced by climate change within the next three decades.

The unprecedented oil crash at the beginning of 2020 drove straight into the pandemic lockdowns.

Migration to North America has become predominantly male because of climate hazards and hostile immigration policies.

Border policy is quickly becoming climate policy as more people are displaced in Central America on a heating globe.

Women in all their diversities are disproportionately affected by climate breakdown due to existing structural and systemic inequalities.

Climate breakdown is leading to ever-greater migration - but the issue is still largely invisible in migration discourse and response.

Incorporating the ocean into visions of an environmentally stable future would first require a change in our ocean imaginary.

The Maori fight for water and against empire.

Glacial melt due to climate breakdown is already having rapid impacts on vulnerable communities.

Keeping peoples on their land is our responsibility if we want to succeed in building a world for climate justice.

Two examples of renewable energy schemes in North Africa show how energy colonialism is reproduced in the form of green colonialism or green grabbing.

Indigenous peoples, shifting cultivators and rural women lose out under the UN REDD+ programmes.

We need justice centred alternatives to the sustainable development mechanism of the Paris Agreement.

Some 'Principles for a Just Transition in Agriculture' have been developed by ActionAid.

Trade treaties, comparative advantage and social inequalities.

The Energy Charter Treaty is the world’s most dangerous investment agreement.

Secret international trade deals could undermine any Green New Deals.