CLIMATE JUSTICE
Climate science is clear: there are just a few years left with current carbon budget reserves to stay within the 1.5°C limit. Green House Gas (GHG) emissions continue to rise alongside multiple crises of energy poverty, hunger injustice, inequality, and human rights violations that are rooted at the core of our current social, economic, and political system.
As we cannot solve one of those crises at the expense of the others, and as the window of opportunity to tackle climate change is shrinking, we urgently need to act. These times require thorough proposals for an ecological transition – alternative models that can answer the needs of the vulnerable communities that are at the frontlines of climate change, without having contributed to global emissions.
CIDSE not only follows closely the negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), but also address the climate crisis across all our areas of work. We recognize that corporate impunity allows for extractivist, carbon-intensive economic models to thrive. Climate mitigation and adaptation are core objectives at the center of the models we propose for just and sustainable production of food and energy. We are mobilising young volunteers to become advocates in their communities for climate action and personal carbon emissions.

Lydia Lehlogonolo Machaka
Stories
Publications
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No Justice – No Peace!
April 14, 2022Questioning ourselves on war, peace, justice, and solidarity as we prepare for Easter By Josianne Gauthier, CIDSE Secretary General “No […]
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Catholic agencies call for urgent climate mitigation action echoing scientific
April 4, 2022CIDSE reaction to the release of the latest Working Group III report by the International Panel of Experts on Climate […]
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News from CIDSE – January-February 2022
March 7, 2022Read our latest newsletter for an overview of our activities from January and February and find out what’s coming next! […]
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Stand With Ukraine
March 4, 2022CIDSE, with 450 civil society organisations from Ukraine and beyond, signed the statement “Stand with Ukraine” in solidarity with the […]
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Social justice and solidarity essential to address the climate crisis
February 28, 2022CIDSE Press release following the release of the report on “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” by the International Panel on Climate […]