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Global Green New Deal

Together with our Global South partners and allies, War on Want is campaigning for a Global Green New Deal to deliver a just transition to fairer, greener societies and economies, to protect people and planet.

Climate catastrophe and ecosystem collapse are ravaging the lives and lands of the world’s poorest and most marginalised communities. Those least responsible for causing global heating are the worst affected, while the richest countries most responsible for causing climate breakdown aren’t doing their fair share to stop it. 

Meanwhile, unprecedented global inequality and the rise of the far-right are entrenching systems of exploitation and oppression, which keep the majority of the world’s population in poverty, while lining the pockets of corporations and the super-rich.

We are working with movements and activists around the world to connect struggles from climate justice to workers' rights, to build global solidarity for a just transition of our economies and societies, so that everybody has access to food, clean energy, safe water – and can live dignified lives, in harmony with the planet.

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When food becomes a gambling game

When food, land, and water — our basic human rights — are treated as profit-making ‘assets’, what happens to people and the planet, and how can we win these essentials back for everyone?
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Paying up for climate collapse

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.
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Why the global farmers’ protests matter

Farmers around the world are protesting decades of government pressure to produce crops more and more cheaply at the expense of farmers’ livelihoods and the environment.
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COP28: everything you need to know

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.
Women holding a protest sign against extractivism, Buenos Aires, August 2022

Why we must move beyond extraction

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.

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Make corporations and the super-rich pay for the climate crisis

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Fund Climate Justice, not Genocide

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Cerrejon; said to be the largest open-cast coal mine in Latin America'

Demand a just energy transition for all

Tell the UK chancellor we need a justice based transition to 'clean' energy

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Join us in calling for a Global Green New Deal

Stand with us and reimagine a world where protecting people and the planet come first.

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Reject carbon offsetting: back real climate solutions

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Protect Colombia's Ecosystems

End the UK-Colombia Investment Treaty to protect Colombia's ecosystems.

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Partners

Action for Ecology and People’s Emancipation (AEER), Indonesia

Action for Ecology and People’s Emancipation (AEER) is an environmental NGO that struggles for improvements in the management of natural resources to help build sustainable relationships between communities and their environment. It undertakes research and defends the rights of communities negatively impacted by extractivist policies and companies.

Association for Social Research and Action (Nomadesc), Colombia

In Colombia, more than five million people have been forced from their homes by violence and extreme poverty, made refugees in their own country. Rural Colombians have lost huge swathes of land. This humanitarian crisis and the needs of displaced people are well known in Colombia. The Social Research and Action Association (Asociacion para la investigacion y la accion social – Nomadesc) works to fix this massive disadvantage. By bringing these vulnerable groups together, Nomadesc unites and raises the voices of these communities. By strengthening the ties between the groups and giving them the tools to defend their human rights, communities are better able to protect themselves from violence and displacement. War on Want has supported Nomadesc in their work investigating violations of human rights and working to strengthen social movements through popular education initiatives.

Networks

La Via Campesina

London Mining Network

Resources

See also our work on Climate