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With ecosystems collapsing as the climate crisis intensifies, corporations are pushing 'solutions' like carbon offsetting, in reality a way to keep polluting and profiting.

To rebuild from austerity and tackle the climate crisis, the UK government must support an ambitious UN Tax Convention.

International Court of Justice (ICJ), has stated that Israel’s 57-year occupation of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) is illegal. Countries must help end Israel’s occupation – including by ending arms transfers and trade deals – but stop businesses from operating in, or importing goods from, Israel's illegal settlements.

Israel is torturing and ill-treating Palestinian detainees – including children. Since October 2023, at least 54 Palestinians have died as a result of Israeli torture. Israel has dramatically escalated its use of torture since October 2023, but Palestinian detainees have been systematically tortured by Israel, with impunity, for decades.

UK banking giant Barclays provides billions of pounds worth of investment and loans to arms companies selling weapons and military technology to Israel. Barclays is actively arming, supporting and profiting from Israel’s apartheid regime and its genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.

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.