Climate Justice Now!

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Climate Justice Now!
(CJN!)
purpose Implementation of demands for justice in climate policy
founding December 2007

Members more than 400 organizations (2010)
Website www.climatejusticenow.org
Poster "Climate Justice Now!" at a climate march in Brussels (2018).

Climate Justice Now! ( CJN! for short , "Climate Justice Now!") is a transnational network of over 400 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that advocate the consideration of environmental justice , social justice and gender justice in international climate policy . It appears in the context of UN climate conferences and, in addition to the Climate Action Network , forms an informal link between the approved environmental organizations.

CJN! is counted among the more fundamental organizations of the climate movement for which not only climate protection is an essential issue, but whose central concerns are also climate justice and criticism of the system, which are very critical of cooperation with politics and business and pursue a rather confrontational strategy.

The coalition was founded in December 2007 at the UN climate conference in Bali as an open platform that was intended to serve the radical criticism of both climate policy and reform-oriented environmental organizations. Criticism was triggered by the Climate Action Network (CAN), another network of over 400 non-governmental organizations, which was the dominant environmental organization within the UN climate process at the time. CAN was accused of keeping representatives of the third world down in internal debates and when attending UN meetings . In addition, founders of CJN! the close links between CAN on the one hand and companies and countries with particularly high emissions on the other hand and viewed market-based reform approaches such as emissions trading with skepticism.

The better-known members include (as of 2010) Friends of the Earth International , La Via Campesina , 350.org or ATTAC .

CJN! was active at the climate conferences Copenhagen , 2009, and Cancun , 2010, both within the conferences and in the form of street protests. In the run-up to the Copenhagen climate conference, CJN! recognized as a so-called “focal point” of environmental NGOs and received approx. 40% of the accreditations that were intended for environmental NGOs. CJN! Developed together with organizations of indigenous peoples and those for direct actions an inside-outside strategy for the conference under the motto "system change not climate change" ("system change instead of climate change"). On December 16, 2009, several hundred NGO-accredited participants left the conference as part of a Reclaim Power campaign , while demonstrators approached from outside the security zone. The Danish police prevented the demonstrators from meeting and 260 demonstrators were arrested. According to Chatterton et al. a. (2013), the movement that culminated in the protests brought questions of justice to the fore and opened up the possibility of contesting existing views of climate policy.

At the Cancun conference in 2010, the CJN! The observer status was withdrawn from the dispatched participants after protests. After 2010 it came within the network to dissent on market-based approaches to climate policy, the main bone of contention was REDD + , a mechanism that the compensation will allow greenhouse gas emissions through forest conservation projects. The network is still present at UN climate conferences, such as the UN climate conference in Madrid in 2019 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CJN! network member (as of November 2010). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 28, 2016 ; Retrieved August 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.climatejusticenow.org
  2. ↑ Admitted NGOs. UNFCCC, accessed January 20, 2020 (NGOs belonging to the network have the Constituency - Environmental CJN ).
  3. ↑ Heiko Garrelts and Matthias Dietz: Contours of the International Climate Movement - Introduction to the conception and content of the manual . In: Matthias Dietz and Heiko Garrelts (eds.): The international climate movement - A manual . Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-658-01970-9 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-01970-9 .
  4. ↑ Melanie Müller and Heike Walk: Democratization of climate negotiation systems through improved opportunities for participation . In: Matthias Dietz and Heiko Garrelts (eds.): The international climate movement - A manual . Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-658-01970-9 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-01970-9 .
  5. ↑ a b c Shannon Gibson: Climate Justice Now! In: S. George Philander (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change . SAGE Publications , March 31, 2012, p. 289-290 , doi : 10.4135 / 9781452218564 .
  6. ^ Johannes Kruse: Organization profile Friends of the Earth International . In: Matthias Dietz and Heiko Garrelts (eds.): The international climate movement - A manual . Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-658-01970-9 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-01970-9 .
  7. ^ Matthias Dietz: Organizational profile of La Via Campesina . In: Matthias Dietz and Heiko Garrelts (eds.): The international climate movement - A manual . Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-658-01970-9 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-01970-9 .
  8. ↑ Christoph Görg and Philip Bedall: Antagonistic positions. The Climate Justice Coalition against the background of the theory of social relations to nature . In: Matthias Dietz and Heiko Garrelts (eds.): The international climate movement - A manual . Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-658-01970-9 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-01970-9 .
  9. ↑ Copenhagen day of mass protest passes without major incident. In: The Guardian. December 17, 2009, accessed August 26, 2016 .
  10. ^ Paul Chatterton, David Featherstone and Paul Routledge: Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen: Antagonism, the Commons, and Solidarity . In: Antipode . June 2012, doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-8330.2012.01025.x .
  11. ^ Chile / Madrid Climate Change Conference. In: Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB). International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), December 12, 2019, accessed on January 22, 2020 .