Decolonizing environmental justice Or: Why environmental/climate justice means dismantling colonialism and not just cutting emissions.

Policy Objective

Energy & Environment Policy Instruments 👇

Remember: Policy instruments are the means by which governments can achieve the degrowth goals/objectives we urgently need!

💡 Translation: Climate justice starts with land back, reparations, and dismantling corporate and military control.

🏞 Return stolen land and recognise Indigenous and frontline communities as primary stewards of ecosystems.

🛑 Ban extractive industries (logging, mining, oil drilling) from Indigenous and occupied lands without consent.

🌍 End neocolonial ‘green’ solutions like carbon offset schemes, debt-driven climate finance, and corporate-controlled conservation projects.

💰 Ensure climate reparations and resource redistribution so Global South nations and frontline communities have the power to shape their own futures.

🏴 Dismantle corporate and military control over natural resources, prioritising community-led and cooperative energy and land management.

💥 There is no climate justice without decolonization.