Oil Queda

International negotiations on climate change is one of the areas that require concerted efforts. Several organizations have worked collectively in a call for a global campaign for climate justice, from now on to Durban and beyond. We invite everyone to join this global campaign and to sign the call as an expression of their commitment.

We are movements and organizations engaged in numerous struggles for a new world, a world in which the needs, interests, rights and aspirations of all peoples have priority over the profit of corporations and the excesses of the elite. In the year ahead, our solidarity and collective action are extremely crucial. Climate change is already devastating impacts globally and is accelerating. The margin that we have to prevent rupture occurring in critical situations and to stop climate catastrophe is shrinking rapidly.

Climate change is much more than a multiplication of the sufferings of people already overwhelmed by the injustice of hunger, dispossession and violation of human rights. It is a crisis also threatens to wipe out vast populations and profoundly change life on Earth. We must act with clarity, cohesion and courage if we are to stabilize the climate system on the planet and ensure a just and sustainable world.

Like other global crises, climate change arises mainly from economic and social structures historically unequal, practices and policies pursued by rich countries, industrialized, and production and consumption systems that sacrifice the needs of most interest in terms of a minority. Affected peoples of the world have very little responsibility for the climate crisis, yet suffer its worst effects and lack the means to respond to it.
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