Climate Justice Assembly Declaration

 Bélém, Brazil, 1 February 2009

 For centuries, productivism and industrial capitalism have been destroying
 our cultures, exploiting our labour and poisoning our environment.

 Now, with the climate crisis, the Earth is saying “enough”, “ya basta”!

 Once again, the people who created the problem are telling us that they
 also have the solutions: carbon trading, so-called “clean coal”, more
 nuclear power , agrofuels, even a “green new deal”. But these are not real
 solutions, they are neoliberal illusions. It is time to move beyond these
 illusions.

 Real solutions to the climate crisis are being built by those who have
 always protected the Earth and by those who fight every day to defend
 their environment and living conditions. We need to globalise these
 solutions.

 For us, the struggles for climate justice and social justice are one and
 the same. It is the struggle for territories, land, forests and water, for
 agrarian and urban reform, food and energy sovereignty, for women’s and
 worker’s rights. It is the fight for equality and justice for indigenous
 peoples, for peoples of the global South, for the redistribution of wealth
 and for the recognition of the historical ecological debt owed by the
 North.

 Against the disembodied, market-driven interests of the global elite and
 the dominant development model based on never-ending growth and
 consumption, the climate justice movement will reclaim the commons, and
 put social and economic realities at the heart of our struggle against
 climate change.

 We call on everyone – workers, farmers, fisherfolk, students, youth,
 women, indigenous peoples, and all concerned humans from the South and the
 North – to join in this common struggle to build the real solutions to the
 climate crisis for the future of our planet, our societies, and our
 cultures. All together, we are building a movement for climate justice.

 We support the mobilizations against the G20 summit and on the global
 crisis from 28 march to 4 April, and the 17 April 2009 mobilisation of La
 Via Campesina.

 We support the call for an International Day of Action in Defense of
 Mother Earth and Indigenous Rights on 12 October 2009.

 We call for mobilisations and diverse forms of actions everywhere, in the
 lead up to, during and beyond the UN climate talks in Copenhagen,
 especially on the Global Day of Action on 12 December 2009.

 In all of our work, we will expose the false solutions, raise the voices
 of the South, defend human rights, and strengthen our solidarity in the
 fight for climate justice. If we make the right choices, we can build a
 better world for everyone.