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Climate justice

People in the Global South are suffering the most from the climate crisis, even though they have contributed the least to it. The climate crisis therefore not only threatens human survival, it is also a huge issue of justice.

Projects

Climate justice

Since February 2026

Building blocks for climate reparations

Putting perspectives from the Global South at the center

Six dimensions of climate reparations regarding the responsibility of global corporations, questions of just economic transformation, and the significance of Germany's colonial past for today's climate policy.

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Climate justice

Since April 2025

Climate debt and reparations

What Germany owes the global South

Countries in the Global South are affected by climate change, which they have little to do with, and they are struggling to pay off a high, unjustified debt burden. We must take a step closer to climate justice through debt relief and reparations.

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Climate justice

March 2024 - August 2024 (completed)

Let's socialize

The Conference for Socialization and Climate Justice

With pioneers of practice such as activists, trade unionists and scientists and the common goal of designing a radical practice of socialization that leads to a climate-just future.

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Climate justice

August 2022 - August 2024 (completed)

Building blocks for climate justice

Concrete political measures for a climate-friendly future

A fundamental transformation of the economy and society is necessary for a climate-just future. Together with social movements, NGOs, and trade unions, we have compiled concrete, transformative, and implementable measures across various sectors for the next 10-15 years.

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Publications

Climate justice

March 2026 / Book

Nandiuasora “Nandi” Mazeingo, Sima Luipert, Johannes Maboss Ortmann, Felix Henn

How to (not) apologize

Building blocks for climate reparations

The four authors emphasize that climate reparations are more than symbolic apologies and require material justice. Using the example of the largely unaddressed genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama, they demonstrate that words do not create justice – only concrete actions do.

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Climate justice

March 2026 / Book

Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development

Pay for the climate crisis!

Building blocks for climate reparations

Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development writes about how to move from "development aid" to actual justice, decolonize climate policy, and restore economic sovereignty in the Global South.

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Climate justice

February 2026 / Book

Nicholas Omonuk Okoit

Hold corporations accountable

Building blocks for climate reparations

Nicholas Omonuk, founder of End Fossil Occupy Uganda, explains the impunity of companies as a lack of accountability for environmental destruction and human rights violations, and shows how weak laws and power imbalances enable such abuses.

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Climate justice

February 2026 / Book

Roland Ngam

Just Transition now!

Building blocks for climate reparations

Roland Ngam, project manager for climate justice at the RLS in Johannesburg, traces the origins of the term Just Transition from labor disputes to climate negotiations and places it in the context of climate reparations.

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Climate justice

February 2026 / Book

Hwei Mian Lim

Compensate for damages and losses

Building blocks for climate reparations

Hwei Mian Lim, an independent consulting expert, explains losses and damages as unavoidable climate damages that disproportionately affect the Global South, traces their historical and structural causes, and uncovers significant funding gaps despite the new L&D fund.

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Climate justice

April 2025 / Book

Oumarou F. Mfochivé, Caro Rübe, Kai Kuhnhenn

What Germany owes Cameroon

On the need for climate reparations

Why colonial rule and climate destruction are linked and why climate justice remains an empty promise without a consistent reappraisal of the past.

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Climate justice

August 2024 / Book

Oumarou F. Mfochivé, Matthias Schmelzer

Climate debt and reparations

Building blocks for climate justice

Debt relief for countries in the Global South and reparations for the climate catastrophe caused by the Global North – now!

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Climate justice

July 2024 / Book

Sina Reisch, Lasse Thiele

Consequences of lignite and the energy transition in East Germany

Socialization of costs, privatization of profits

Who will pay the follow-up costs of lignite mining? This question is coming back into focus in the run-up to the 2024 state elections in Saxony and Brandenburg. We asked the relevant democratic parties for their positions and hereby publish their answers.

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Climate justice

March 2024 / Website

Teilnehmende der Vergesellschaftungskonferenz

Socialization to go

Conference objectives, strategies and plans

On the website of the Socialization Conference, we have compiled reports, videos, interviews, photos, material for further thought, and visual transcripts for you.

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Climate justice

November 2023 / Book

Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie e.V.

Building blocks for climate justice

8 measures for a future of solidarity

Paths to a (climate-)just future that begin in the here and now and rethink ecological and social issues. Each selected measure represents a distinct social transformation project that can be implemented in the next five to ten years.

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Climate justice

October 2023 / Book

Ronald Blaschke, Werner Rätz

Social guarantees

Basic income and social guarantees for all

A socio-ecological transformation will involve many changes and disruptions. Basic income and other social guarantees, such as adequate healthcare and access to public and social infrastructure, will alleviate the fear of these changes.

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Climate justice

April 2023 / Book

Gesine Langlotz, Eva Mahnke, Katharina Talanow

Fair land policy

For a democratic, diverse agriculture

Agricultural land in Germany is very unevenly distributed, and non-agricultural investors and large-scale farms are increasingly using land as a speculative asset. Fair land policy aims to democratize the land market and allocate land according to social and ecological principles.

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Climate justice

March 2023 / Book

Ruth Krohn

Socio-ecological tax policy

Redistribute in a climate-friendly way

With socio-ecological tax reforms, against environmentally harmful subsidies, tax privileges for the super-rich, and loopholes for large corporations, injustices are to be reduced and ecological steering and redistributive effects are to be promoted.

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Climate justice

January 2023 / Book

Nina Treu, Eva Mahnke, Carolina Achilles, Kai Kuhnhenn, Matthias Schmelzer, Ruth Krohn, Katharina Talanow, Lasse Thiele

Reduction in working hours

For the 4-day week and a good life for all!

The goal of collective working time reduction (CTR) is to redistribute work, personal time, and income, thus enabling a good life for all and a socio-ecological transformation. "Collective" CTR encompasses all CTR approaches that go beyond individual solutions in which

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Climate justice

December 2022 / Book

Carolina Achilles

Car-free cities

We need cities for people – not for cars

Car-free cities are a relevant contribution to a just mobility transition. In addition to their potential for CO2 reduction, they offer scope for improving the quality of life through clean air, space for social interaction, and greater safety.

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Climate justice

October 2022 / Book

Kai Kuhnhenn

Fair distribution of housing

social and ecological socialization

The dossier discusses not only the social but also the ecological benefits of socializing housing.

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Climate justice

October 2022 / Book

Lasse Thiele

Energy prices

Transformative ways out of the energy crisis

For a basic energy supply that redistributes profits, prohibits electricity and gas shutdowns, and curbs non-essential industrial production.

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Climate justice

July 2022 / Book

Lasse Thiele

Hydrogen and climate justice

Instead of a “miracle weapon” more global injustice

Hydrogen is not a silver bullet to combat the climate crisis. While there are sensible uses for "green" hydrogen, European industry's plans to rely on massive imports from the global South to secure its energy supply threaten to perpetuate centuries-long patterns of global injustice.

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Climate justice

February 2022 / Book

Lasse Thiele, Ruth Krohn, Matthias Schmelzer

Can a green market economy save the climate?

Climate justice check of the traffic light government

With this analysis, we provide an overview of the climate policy of the "traffic light" government from a climate justice perspective. Even though it is more ambitious than before, it remains a policy of business as usual. This is not enough to tackle the catastrophic consequences of the climate crisis.

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Climate justice

July 2021 / Book

Kai Kuhnhenn, Matthias Schmelzer, Lasse Thiele

Is climate justice a choice?

An election manifesto analysis

Why the mainstream party-political discourse is inadequate and what measures are really needed to tackle the climate crisis.

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Climate justice

March 2021 / Post

Lasse Thiele, Ronja Morgenthaler

Beyond capitalism with a Green New Deal?

Finding the jump

How a radicalized Green New Deal could target “symbiotic” reform measures in conjunction with the expansion of non-capitalist spaces.

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Posts

Climate justice

July 7, 2025 / Oumarou Mfochive

Germany's mountain of debt in Cameroon

Reparations for the effects of colonialism and the climate crisis

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Climate justice

January 20, 2025 / Parwaneh Mirassan

For a climate-friendly future, we need to look back at the past

Why debt relief is not generous but long overdue

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Climate justice

July 25, 2024 / Sina Reisch

Lignite follow-up costs and water crisis: Time for a change of course!

We environmental organizations are sounding the alarm!

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Climate justice

July 14, 2024 / Divij Kapur

From Climate Justice to Climate Reparations

About the discourse of climate depts and reparations

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Climate justice

April 14, 2024 / Lasse Thiele

“Let's Socialize”: A look back

About the conference and socialization movement in Germany

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Climate justice

March 15, 2023 / Ruth Krohn

Tax policy for climate justice

Socially ecological tax reforms – now!

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Climate justice

November 9, 2022 / Lasse Thiele

Hydrogen and climate justice: Not a nice gas?

Energy colonialism: European import plans

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Climate justice

February 17, 2022 / Lasse Thiele

CO2 budgets and climate debt

Germany's historic climate debt

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January 27, 2022 / Ruth Krohn

Climate policy progress – but no climate justice!

An interview with Ruth Krohn and Lasse Thiele

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Climate justice

August 25, 2021 / Kai Kuhnhenn

Climate justice is not electable

An interview with the authors of the election manifesto analysis

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Climate justice

July 12, 2021 / Kai Kuhnhenn

The climate of the future

Two future scenarios compared

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Climate justice

March 2, 2021 / Nadine McNeil

Real political power does not lie in the parliament buildings

An interview with director Johanna Schellhagen

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Team

Oumarou Mfochive

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Carolina Hoffmann

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Divij Kapur

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Mascha Schädlich

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Kai Kuhnhenn

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