High Commissioner calls on Pacific nations to continue their work at the forefront of the global fight for climate justice 17 August 2020. Climate Justice calls for the recognition of a principle of ecological debt that industrialized governments and transnational corporations owe the rest of the world as a result of their appropriation of the planet's capacity to absorb greenhouse gases. Tj 174.75 0 TD 0 Tc -0.1275 Tw ( ) Tj -174.75 -8.25 TD /F0 6 Tf -0.168 Tw ( ) Tj 0 -12 TD /F0 12 Tf -0.0154 Tc -0.3206 Tw (8. Download the poster. 0000013547 00000 n To protect vu) Tj 131.25 0 TD -0.12 Tc -0.0075 Tw (lnerable Americans, we must find alternatives for those human activities that cause ) Tj -131.25 -12.75 TD -0.1461 Tc 0.0186 Tw (global climate change.) BT 92.25 749.25 TD 0 0 0 rg /F0 15.75 Tf -0.033 Tc 0.1545 Tw (10 Principles for Just Climate Change Policies in the U.S.) Tj 427.5 0 TD 0 Tc 0.1215 Tw ( ) Tj -483.75 -9.75 TD /F1 6.75 Tf 0.3735 Tw ( ) Tj 0 -12.75 TD /F1 11.25 Tf -0.1453 Tc 0.0178 Tw (The Environmental Justice movement has demonstrated that pollution\222s effects often fall disproportionately on ) Tj T* -0.2097 Tc 0.0822 Tw (the health of people of color, Indigenous Peoples, and low) Tj 278.25 0 TD 0.0038 Tc 0 Tw (-) Tj 3.75 0 TD -0.0668 Tc -0.0607 Tw (income communities. application/pdf OilWatch Africa Climate Justice affirms the need for solutions to climate change that do not externalize costs to the environment and communities, and are in line with the principles of a just transition. These … Principles respecting the Government of Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples. Many agree that developed states must bear greater burdens in tacking climate change than developing states for two reasons: their greater historical responsibility for global warming and their greater wealth. 0000000077 00000 n Progress on climate action is at risk of unravelling if Pacific island states do not step up on the related crisis of nature loss Monitor Domestic and International Carbon Markets) Tj 306 0 TD 0 Tc -0.336 Tw ( ) Tj -306 -13.5 TD /F1 11.25 Tf -0.0945 Tc -0.033 Tw (We must ensure that carbon emissions and sinks markets are transparent and accountable, do not ) Tj 0 -12.75 TD -0.1823 Tc 0.0547 Tw (concentrate pollution in vul) Tj 128.25 0 TD -0.1437 Tc 0.0162 Tw (nerable communities, and avoid activities that harm the environment.) Whereas climate change is a scientific reality whose effects are already being felt around the world; Whereas if consumption of fossil fuels, deforestation and other ecological devastation continues at current rates, it is certain that climate change will result in increased temperatures, sea level rise, changes in agricultural patterns, increased frequency and magnitude of "natural" disasters such as floods, droughts, loss of biodiversity, intense storms and epidemics; Whereas deforestation contributes to climate change, while having a negative impact on a broad array of local communities; Whereas communities and the environment feel the impacts of the fossil fuel economy at every stage of its life cycle, from exploration to production to refining to distribution to consumption to disposal of waste; Whereas climate change and its associated impacts are a global manifestation of this local chain of impacts; Whereas fossil fuel production and consumption helps drive corporate-led globalization; Whereas climate change is being caused primarily by industrialized nations and transnational corporations; Whereas the multilateral development banks, transnational corporations and Northern governments, particularly the United States, have compromised the democratic nature of the United Nations as it attempts to address the problem; Whereas the perpetration of climate change violates the Universal Declaration On Human Rights, and the United Nations Convention on Genocide; Whereas the impacts of climate change are disproportionately felt by small island states, women, youth, coastal peoples, local communities, indigenous peoples, fisherfolk, poor people and the elderly; Whereas local communities, affected people and indigenous peoples have been kept out of the global processes to address climate change; Whereas market-based mechanisms and technological "fixes" currently being promoted by transnational corporations are false solutions and are exacerbating the problem; Whereas unsustainable production and consumption practices are at the root of this and other global environmental problems; Whereas this unsustainable consumption exists primarily in the North, but also among elites within the South; Whereas the impacts will be most devastating to the vast majority of the people in the South, as well as the "South" within the North; Whereas the impacts of climate change threaten food sovereignty and the security of livelihoods of natural resource-based local economies; Whereas the impacts of climate change threaten the health of communities around the world-especially those who are vulnerable and marginalized, in particular children and elderly people; Whereas combating climate change must entail profound shifts from unsustainable production, consumption and lifestyles, with industrialized countries taking the lead; We, representatives of people's movements together with activist organizations working for social and environmental justice resolve to begin to build an international movement of all peoples for Climate Justice based on the following core principles: Affirming the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecological unity and the interdependence of all species, Climate Justice insists that communities have the right to be free from climate change, its related impacts and other forms of ecological destruction. 0 14 3 0 obj <> endobj 12 0 obj <>stream 0000012463 00000 n 15. %PDF-1.6 %âãÏÓ Tj 108.75 0 TD 0 Tc -0.1275 Tw ( ) Tj -108.75 -8.25 TD /F0 6 Tf -0.168 Tw ( ) Tj 0 -12 TD /F0 12 Tf 0.0123 Tc -0.3483 Tw (2. 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