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19 Sep 2019

Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit on Climate, Rights and Human Survival

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We envisage a world where people thrive as part of nature and where human rights – including the rights of Indigenous Peoples – and the environment come before corporate profit, in an era in which people are more connected with each other and with the planet...To achieve climate justice, we must all recognize that the climate emergency threatens human survival, the environment, and the enjoyment of all human rights, for present and future generations...

To achieve climate justice, we, the undersigned, agree to the following:

  1. We will increase our efforts to place human rights at the core of climate activism.
  2. We will demand immediate, bold, people-powered and human rights-consistent action
  3. We will demand that all government climate policies, measures, and actions respect, protect and fulfil human rights
  4. We will increase the pressure on those countries and corporations most responsible for climate change and with the most resources available.
  5. We will call upon those States with the greatest responsibility for climate damage and with the most resources to provide the necessary financial and technological resources to countries in the global south
  6. We will relentlessly challenge corporate capture of policies and institutions, and we will hold accountable climate destructive industries and their financial backers.
  7. We will demand a just, fair and inclusive transition away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable agriculture and renewable energy that empower Indigenous Peoples, workers, peasant farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, and communities
  8. We will work for the protection, respect, and fulfilment of the rights of Indigenous Peoples, including to their ancestral lands and territories.
  9. We will demand effective and adequate access to justice for individuals and communities whose rights are impacted by the climate crisis or lack of climate action
  10. We will support all environmental human rights defenders, in particular those who individually and collectively protect their territory, access to land, livelihoods, and the environment, and those campaigning to defend the people and the planet from destructive activities and climate breakdown.