Information from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice
The Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) is a network of over 200 climate justice groups and organisations working at international, regional and local level on climate justice and related realities.
DCJ was formed in 2012 in Bangkok, with 200 groups agreeing to a common platform and mission, with the intention of being a campaign vehicle to collectivise Global South grassroots voices. It focuses on bringing on groups and organiszations together rather than unaffiliated individuals.
Since then, DCJ has been campaigning on Energy transformation (through the Reclaim Power mobiliszations), Just Transition, Climate Finance, False and Real Solutions, anti-militariszation, food systems, land rights and equitable access to resources including clean air, water and energy. DCJ is the convener of climate justice groups in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, where DCJ makes up one half of the Environmental NGO (ENGO) Constituency alongside Climate Action Network (CAN).
To become a member, an organization needs to fill out a form and inform the Global Coordinator. The form includes an explicit endorsement to DCJ’s Platform document.
What we are fighting For
Fight for the transformation of energy systems
An end to dirty and harmful energy; a fulfilment of peoples’ rights to energy for their basic needs;
A swift change to public and community renewable and clean energy;
An end to the excessive and wasteful energy consumption by corporations and elites.
Fight for food sovereignty, for peoples’ rights to sufficient, healthy and appropriate food and sustainable food systems
The promotion of sustainable climate change resilient agriculture and agro-ecology;
Democratic access to land and land-based resources;
The rights of small food producers;
The recognition of women’s roles and rights in agriculture, aquaculture, fishing and pastoral systems;
Farmers’ control of seed diversity;
The global re-organization of food production and trade towards prioritizing consumption of locally produced food.
Fight for peoples’ rights to sufficient, affordable, clean, quality water
For the sustainable, equitable and democratic us and management of water resources;
For the protection of water sources and watersheds from extractive industries, dirty and harmful energy projects.
Fight for just transitions for all workers beginning with those in the dirty and harmful energy industries
Create jobs for building climate resilience and bringing down greenhouse gas emissions;
Defend and ensure the fulfillment of the rights of all working people including gender and reproductive rights;
Provide sustainable, decent and climate change resilient livelihoods and jobs for all.
Fight for people’s safety and security of homes and livelihoods from climate disasters
The rights of climate-displaced peoples and climate migrants;
Community managed programs for adaptation, resilience building and renewable energy systems in disaster response and reconstruction efforts;
The end to corporate domination and profiteering from disaster relief and reconstruction.
Fight for the social, political, economic, cultural and reproductive rights and empowerment of all of our people and communities
Including indigenous peoples, workers, farmers, pastoralists, fishers, urban and rural poor, women and LGBT, children and youth, migrants, refugees, stateless, unemployed, landless, seniors, differently abled – and their equitable rights to and responsibility for the commons.
And the delivery of climate finance as part of these reparations.
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Fight for reparations for climate debt owed by those most responsible for climate change
Fight for the mobilization and delivery of climate finance
By all states as part of their obligations to attend to the needs and welfare of their citizens; Ensure that climate finance is allocated and used equitably, democratically and appropriate to its purposes.
Fight for the end to deception and false solutions
In mitigation and adaptation (“maladaptation”) such as offsets and carbon trading, marketbased approaches to forests (REDD) and agriculture (“Climate Smart”), soil and water, large-scale geo-engineering, and techno-fixes, nuclear energy, mega hydro dams, agro-fuels, “clean” coal, GMOs, the waste to energy incineration industry, large-scale “re-modeling”;
Stop corporate and private finance capture of climate programs.
Fight for the end to policies, decisions and measures by governments, elites, institutions and corporations (domestic, regional and global) that increase the vulnerabilities of people and planet to impacts of climate change
Such as logging and deforestation, destruction and corporate takeover of forests and mangroves by dirty and harmful industries, unregulated extractive industries, monocropping plantations, trade liberalization, privatization of essential services, discriminatory and harmful migration and border policies, discrimination of women, seniors, children indigenous groups, ethnic communities, poor families and communities.
Fight to stop the commodification and financialization of nature and nature’s functions
Fight for an international climate agreement that is rooted in science, equity and justice
Based on historical responsibility; without offsets and loopholes; aimed at limiting temperature rise to well below 1.5º C;
Ensuring delivery of finance and technology and other mechanisms to empower people and communities to build resilience and deal with loss and damage.
International Members
ActionAid
Africa Trade Network
African Water Network (AWN)
Alternatives Asia
Asia/Pacific Network on Food Sovereignty (APNFS)
Asia/Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD)
Asian Regional Exchanges for New Alernatives (ARENA)
Campana Mesoamericana para la Justicia Climatica
Corporate Accountability
Corporate Accountability & Public Participation Africa (CAPPA)
Biofuelwatch
Earth in Brackets [Earth]
ETC Group
FERN
Focus on the Global South
Friends of the Earth International
Gastivists
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives GAIA
Global Forest Coalition (GFC)
Ibon International
Iniciativa Construyendo Puentes – Redes Latinoamericanas frente al Cambio Climatico
International Campaign on Climate Refugees’ Rights
International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL)
International Lawyers.org
Jubilee South – Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
LDC Watch International
Migrant Forum Asia (MFA)
Oil Change International
Push Europe
Social Watch International
South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE)
South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy
Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI)
Third World Network (TWN)
The Transnational Institute (TNI)
350.org
War on Want
WOMIN
World Council of Churches
Young Friends of the Earth Europe
Regional Members
See lists here from Africa (39), Latin America (29), Asia and the Pacific 119), North America and Europe (30).
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