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From drilling for oil and gas to industrial agriculture, communities in Latin America and beyond are bearing the environmental and social costs of this extraction.

Fashion giant NEXT dismissed 1,416 workers from its only unionised factory in Sri Lanka via WhatsApp.

Climate breakdown is devastating lives and damaging the Earth’s capacity to sustain all beings. To secure a just future, we must re-imagine our relationship with nature.

Global North countries evade responsibility for causing the climate crisis.

The UK government must divest from war and fossil fuels to pay for the climate crisis, before it's too late.

Rich Global North countries and corporations must pay their fair share to get us out of the climate crisis they did the most to cause.

Social justice activists and movement leaders from around the world gathered for a day of global solidarity, to turn crisis into justice.

We call for an end to the global reliance on fossil fuels, and a just transition to green energy systems at this year's UN climate summit.

A post-extractive approach understands that resources are finite and hold value beyond their monetary value, and that the process of extraction has costs far beyond the financial. Resource use must be justice-based, and prioritised raising living standards for the majority of people within planetary limits, rather than maximising profit for a few at any cost.

London-based mining company Anglo American claims to be a climate leader — yet its mining projects are devasting Global South communities and the environment.

The UK and other rich industrialised Global North countries must take responsibility for fuelling the climate crisis by paying climate reparations to countries in the Global South.  

Rockhopper successfully sued Italy for £210 million over Italy’s law banning coastal oil drilling, using the ECT and ISDS.