The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen.

But beneath the sustainability branding, these climate ‘solutions’ are leading to new environmental injustices and green colonialism. The green growth and clean energy plans of the Global North require the large-scale extraction of strategic minerals from the Global South. The geopolitics of transition imply sacrificing not only territories, but truly sustainable ways of inhabiting this world.

Hear from four exciting and important voices from the front lines of this new struggle against Green colonialism.

Sabrina Fernandes is a Brazilian sociologist and political economist, focused on transition, Latin America and internationalism. She’s the Head of Research at the Alameda Institute and a former postdoctoral fellow of CALAS. Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher and activist who is the North Africa Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute (TNI), Miriam Lang is Professor in the Department for Environment and Sustainability at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. A Filipina feminist and activist researcher, Mary Ann Manahan is currently a doctoral assistant with the Conflict Research Group of the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University in Belgium.

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