The Global Climate Justice Movement

Abstract

Climate change has climbed to the top of the political agenda in the last three years. It is the focus of intensive UN meetings, gatherings of major economic formations like the G20 and G8, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Major Economies Forum, and new policies of international financial institutions (IFIs). The publication of the Fourth Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 and the Stern Report in 2006, as well as the recognition that we have already reached ‘peak-oil’ reveals the gravity of the crisis to everyone. However, the urgency of abating global warming, reducing greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and finding safe and alternative sources of energy are not being met with the political will that they require.