The Fight for Climate JusticeThe Fight for Climate Justice

26 November 202026 November 2020

dipti bhatnagar dipti bhatnagar Climate Justice & Energy coordinatorClimate Justice & Energy coordinator

Friends of the Earth InternationalFriends of the Earth InternationalJA! , MozambiqueJA! , Mozambique

SYSTEM CHANGE / CHANGING POWER RELATIONS / FIGHTING MULTIPLE CRISES

- Climate crisis- inherently unjust!

- Energy crisis, almost 1 billion people across the planet, 70% people in Moz without have access to electricity

- Biodiversity crisis

- Covid-19 pandemic and multiple health crises

- Political crises,democracy threatened

- Inequality crisis. Richest 5% contributed 37% of emissions from 1990 to 2015!

- Unemployment crisis, people are struggling to survive

WHY DO WE CALL IT CLIMATE JUSTICE?

• The Climate Crisis is inherently unjust- those who didn’t create the crisis are already being affected the most.

• The Climate Crisis is not a carbon issue, its not a science issues, it is very much a justice issue.

• In addressing the climate crisis we should also deal with the other inter-related crises, and not make them worse.

INEQUALITY DINOSAUR!Oxfam’s Confronting Carbon Inequality report- Sep 2020

MOZAMBIQUE CYCLONE IDAI- MARCH 2019

MOZAMBIQUE CYCLONE IDAI- MARCH 2019

MOZAMBIQUE CYCLONE IDAI- MARCH 2019

EQUITY, HISTORICAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FAIR SHARES

https://www.foei.org/climate-fair-shares

http://www.climatefairshares.org/

https://www.foei.org/climate-fair-shareshttp://www.climatefairshares.org/

JAPAN’S ROLE IN INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLITICS? VERY NEGATIVE

- Japanese government still does not commit to reduce Japan’s emissions based on Japan’s fair share and historical responsibility

- Japanese govt is not giving the climate finance based on Japan’s fair share of the climate debt

- Japanese govt and institutions like JBIC and JICA continue to fund dirty fossil fuel projects in Indonesia, Vietnam, other places in south east Asia and in Africa- example- gas in Mozambique

- Japanese govt, JBIC, JICA wanted to fund Prosavana in Mozambique- but WE STOPPED THEM!

JAPANESE GOVT IS A PART OF THE PROBLEM !!

Plus- high level of consumption in Japan will need to change.

A crisis affecting people and the planet

NO TO ‘NET ZERO’! YES TO REAL ZERO!

NO TO FALSE SOLUTIONS! NO TO REDD!

REAL SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS- System change!

- People Power! Building our peoples’ ability to challenge the crises

- Decentralized, community-owned renewable energy systems

- Community level food systems

- Peasant agro-ecology, food sovereignty, small holder farmers feed 70% of the world currently

- Community forests management

- Economic justice solutions for people not for corporates

- Dismantle corporate power

- Gender justice is key to stopping the climate crisis

10 DEMANDS FOR AN ENERGY

SYSTEM FOR PEOPLE AND THE PLANET

FoEI Just Recovery

Principles on FoEI website

THE IMPORTANCE OF SHOWING SOLIDARITY

There is no Climate Justice Without Gender justice

FIGHTING DIRTY ENERGY IS A SOLUTION-Community in Indonesia fighting against coal mining

FIGHTING DIRTY ENERGY IS A SOLUTION-Mozambique community fighting against gas extraction (Japan is involved in funding!)

Rainha da Benga was fighting coal in Mozambique until she was killed!

VICTORY in Japan!! Soga coal power plant in Chiba City cancelled in 2018!

VICTORY in Japan!! Sodegaura coal power plant cancelled in 2019!

Some useful websitesSome useful websites

- www.foei.org/what-we-do/climate-justice-- www.foei.org/what-we-do/climate-justice-and-energyand-energy- www.goodenergybadenergy.org- www.goodenergybadenergy.org

- https://ja4change.wordpress.com/ - https://ja4change.wordpress.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/ja4change/- https://www.facebook.com/ja4change/

- http://www.homef.org/- http://www.homef.org/- http://www.groundwork.org.za/- http://www.groundwork.org.za/

Thank YouThank You

dipti bhatnagardipti bhatnagarFriends of the Earth International /

Justiça Ambiental

dipti@foei.org

Twitter - diptimoz

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