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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.  

How will Colombia’s new Pacto Historico government, headed by Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez translate their radical climate justice platform into policy?

Sri Lanka's severe political and financial crisis means millions are unable to afford food. This is a crisis driven by international debt.

Decent work and a living wage are not only basic rights, but a key route out of poverty. Through organising, the collective voice of workers has won rights and decent work for millions of people.

The Maricunga salt flats, in the heart of Chile’s Atacama Desert, are under threat from lithium mega-mining. Communities fighting back are on the frontline of the fight for just transition and climate justice.

Tackling the climate crisis requires a radical transformation of our societies and economies, but our trade rules stand in the way.

While the UK produces and exports dangerous, banned agrotoxics to the Global South, our partners in Kenya are creating new, organic alternatives.

As the UK hosts the annual United Nations climate change summit, COP26 (31 October to 12 November), we ask what negotiations that deliver real climate justice would look like.

As the UK hosts world leaders in Glasgow this November, we know that moving the dial from climate inaction towards climate justice will only be possible through our collective action.

Corporations are co-opting the language of peasants' and environmental movements to press their agenda of profit over people and planet.