{"id":3473908,"date":"2018-10-04T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3473908"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:50:32","slug":"radical-realism-for-climate-justice-a-civil-society-response-to-the-challenge-of-limiting-global-warming-to-1-5c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2018-10-04\/radical-realism-for-climate-justice-a-civil-society-response-to-the-challenge-of-limiting-global-warming-to-1-5c\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Realism for Climate Justice. A Civil Society Response to the Challenge of Limiting Global Warming to 1.5\u00b0C"},"content":{"rendered":"

Limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial is feasible, and it is our best hope of achieving environmental and social justice, of containing the impacts of a global crisis that was born out of historical injustice and highly unequal responsibility.<\/p>\n

To do so will require a radical shift away from resource-intensive and wasteful production and consumption patterns and a deep transformation towards ecological sustainability and social justice. Demanding this transformation is not \u2018na\u00efve\u2019 or \u2018politically unfeasible\u2019, it is radically realistic.<\/p>\n

This publication is a civil society response to the challenge of limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C while also paving the way for climate justice. It brings together the knowledge and experience of a range of international groups, networks and organisations the Heinrich B\u00f6ll Foundation has worked with over the past years, who in their political work, research and practice have developed the radical, social and environmental justice-based agendas political change we need across various sectors.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Radical Realism for Climate Justice<\/a>\u00a0includes the following eight volumes:<\/h3>\n

A Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Oil Change International<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0shows that the carbon embedded in already producing fossil fuel reserves will take us beyond agreed climate limits. Yet companies and governments continue to invest in and approve vast exploration and expansion of oil, coal and gas. This chapter explores the urgency and opportunity for fossil fuel producers to begin a just and equitable managed decline of fossil fuel production in line with the Paris Agreement goals.<\/p>\n

Another Energy is Possible<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Sean Sweeney, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(TUED) argues that the political fight for social ownership and democratic control of energy lies at the heart of the struggle to address climate change. Along with a complete break with investor-focused neoliberal policy, this \u201ctwo shift solution\u201d will allow us to address some of the major obstacles to reducing energy demand and decarbonizing supply. \u201cEnergy democracy\u201d must address the need for system-level transformations that go beyond energy sovereignty and self-determination.<\/p>\n

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Zero Waste Circular Economy A Systemic Game-Changer to Climate Change\u00a0<\/a>by\u00a0Mariel Vilella, Zero Waste Europe<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0explains and puts numbers to how the transformation of our consumption and production system into a zero waste circular economy provides the potential for emission reductions far beyond what is considered in the waste sector. Ground-breaking experiences in cities and communities around the world are already showing that these solutions can be implemented today, with immediate results.<\/p>\n

Degrowth \u2013 A Sober Vision of Limiting Warming to 1.5\u00b0C<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Mladen Domazet, Institute for Political Ecology<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in Zagreb, Croatia, reports from a precarious, but climate-stabilized year 2100 to show how a planet of over 7 billion people found diversification and flourishing at many levels of natural, individual and community existence, and turned away from the tipping points of catastrophic climate change and ecosystem collapse. That world is brought to life by shedding the myths of the pre-degrowth era \u2013 the main myth being that limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C is viable while maintaining economic activities focused on growth.<\/p>\n

System Change on a Deadline. Organizing Lessons from Canada\u2019s Leap Manifesto<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0The Leap<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Avi Lewis, Katie McKenna and Rajiv Sicora of The Leap recounts how intersectional coalitions can create inspiring, detailed pictures of the world we need, and deploy them to shift the goalposts of what is considered politically possible. They draw on the Leap story to explore how coalition-building can break down traditional \u201cissue silos\u201d, which too often restrict the scope and impact of social justice activism.<\/p>\n

La Via Campesina in Action for Climate Justice<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0La Via Campesina<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in Action for Climate Justice by the international peasants movement La Via Campesina highlights how industrialized agriculture and the corporate food system are at the center of the climate crisis and block pathways to a 1.5\u00b0C world. In their contribution, La Via Campesina outline key aspects of system change in agriculture towards peasant agro-ecology and give concrete experiences of organized resistance and alternatives that are already making change happen.<\/p>\n

Re-Greening the Earth: Protecting the Climate through Ecosystem Restoration<\/a>by\u00a0Christoph Thies, Greenpeace Germany<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0calls to mind that greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and the destruction of forests and peatlands contribute to global warming and dangerous climate change. His chapter makes the case for ecosystem restoration: Growing forests and recovering peatlands can sequester CO2 from the atmosphere and protect both climate and biodiversity. This can make untested and potentially risky climate technologies unnecessary \u2013 if emissions from burning fossil fuels and other greenhouse gas emissions are phased out fast enough.<\/p>\n

Modelling 1.5\u00b0C-Compliant Mitigation Scenarios Without Carbon Dioxide Removal<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Christian Holz, Carleton University and Climate Equity Reference Project (CERP)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0reviews recent studies that demonstrate that it is still possible to achieve 1.5\u00b0C without relying on speculative and potentially deleterious technologies. This can be done if national climate pledges are increased substantially in all countries immediately, international support for climate action in developing countries is scaled up, and mitigation options not commonly included in mainstream climate models are pursued.<\/p>\n

We hope that the experiences and political demands, the stories and recommendations compiled in this publication will be as inspiring to all of you as they are to us.<\/em><\/p>\n

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