campaigns

With over two million members and supporters around the world, we campaign on today's most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies. Our international positions are informed and strengthened by our work with communities, and our alliances with indigenous peoples, farmers' movements, trade unions, human rights groups and others.

climate and energy justice

The world is facing two related challenges that threaten the lives and livelihoods of billions of people: climate change and the global energy crisis related to the competition for resources. We demand climate and energy justice which is the right of all peoples to a fair share of the earth's resources within sustainable limits. Historical polluters must immediately reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and take responsibility for the impacts of climate change in vulnerable communities.

corporates

We call for rights for communities and citizens to choose their local economies and to hold corporations legally accountable for bad practices. We challenge the powerful role of corporations in institutions like the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the UN system and the World Economic Forum.

gmos

We support the right of countries to ban or restrict the introduction of Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMOs). We believe that countries have the right to decide what they want to eat, and we support sustainable agricultural practices & food sovereignty in order to avoid food crises in the first place.

forests

We want a halt to machine-intensive corporate logging and the conversion of forests to agriculture and pastures. We oppose "carbon sinks" and other schemes that replace diverse forests with tree plantations. We want local comunities and indigenous peoples control to their forests in their traditional sustainable way.

finance

We want to see an end to taxpayers' money being used by public institutions like the World Bank and Export Credit Agencies to subsidize destructive oil, mining and gas projects and to stop public money being used to finance privatization of water and other essential services.

trade

We campaign to replace corporate globalization with fair and sustainable economies, based on democracy, diversity, reduced consumption, cooperation and caution. We work with others to curb the power and scope of the World Trade Organization and other regional and bilateral trade liberalization agreements.

themes

Core themes running through our work are:

• protecting human & environmental rights
• protecting the planet's disappearing biodiversity
• the repayment of ecological debt owed by rich countries to those they have exploited for their own economic benefit.

Our groups campaign on many other issues including desertification & antarctica.

We are actively involved with the World Social Forum & work with many other groups & partners who share many of our aims.