Glasgow Agreement has goal climate justice
Strategic background
By taking into account the above mentioned climate urgency and the global institutional response which has not prevented the global rise of greenhouse gas emissions, the platform claims the most effective strategy to prevent climate breakdown to be that of large-scale direct action against the infrastructures responsible for said emissions.Based on an inventory which will take into consideration the specific political conditions of each territory, their historical responsibilities, and infrastructures/sectors/companies, the organisations of the Glasgow Agreement that are located in a given territory claim they will develop priorities for emission cuts through a list of infrastructures to be shut down through different tactical tools (mainly those focused on direct action), such as civil disobedience, and politico-economic non-cooperation.
This climate agenda based on territorial inventories and climate justice demands aims to keep the Earth below 1.5 °C global warming by 2100 by reaching the emission cuts needed for that effect.Climate justice
Is defined by the platform as a social and political framework and demand for the redistribution of power, knowledge and wellbeing, proposing a new notion of prosperity within natural limits and just resource distribution.
In this respect, some main points discussed in the agreement include:The recognition of the interdependence between all species and affirmation of the need to reduce, with an aim to eliminate, the production of greenhouse gases and associated local pollutants
The acknowledgement and integration of the care economy into daily life
Support for structural changes in society in regards to systemic racism, colonialism and imperialism
A defense for a just transition for workers currently employed in the sectors that need to be dismantled
A rejection of green capitalism as a viable framework for change