Climate Justice Coalition

02/06/2026

27/05/2026

Calling all CJC members and friends!

June=World Environment Month. We want to know from you:
- How has climate change impacted your environment?
- What does climate justice look like to you?

Use your creativity to tell the story. Through painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, photography, or mixed media, show us how climate change has impacted your community or share your vision for a just and sustainable future.

✨ Express yourself. Challenge us. Inspire us.

Don't forget to include a short caption or rationale explaining your artwork and answering the question: What does climate justice mean to you?

We can't wait to see your creations! Competition closes on June 30.

25/05/2026

🔥 Week of Action: Our struggles are connected 🔥

We are facing intersecting crises: war, displacement, genocide, ecological breakdown, and deep inequality. These are not separate issues. They are produced by the same global system that puts private profit over people and the planet.

Frontline communities are resisting the violence of extraction and occupation every day from Palestine to Sudan, the DRC to the Niger Delta, Mozambique to the Amazon.

At the centre of this system are fossil fuel and extractive industries, alongside the corporations and financiers that sustain them. These are the culprits who drive displacement, fuel conflict, and deepen climate breakdown.

We refuse to look at these crises in isolation.

Corporations like TotalEnergies, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Glencore must be held accountable for their role in this global injustice.

💰 This Week of Action, we stand in solidarity with frontline struggles and demand accountability from polluters and their financiers.

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25/05/2026

We are a GO for Tuesday (tomorrow)!

Glubay has been approved for an Open Pit Coal Mine set to displace 400 agricultural jobs, threaten livelihoods, homes, and water of our precious ecosystems in the Vaal

📍 Springcol on the R82
📆 26 May

This community has been ravaged by pollution and poisons from the fossil giants (like Sasol) for decades.

JOBURG! The comrades of the Vaal are steadfast in their support of climate actions eJozi, now is the time to show up and show out for our neighbours.

Our air is one, our struggle is one. For peace, planet, and prosperity, Amandla!

25/05/2026

🌍 Africa Day is a reminder that our struggles and our futures are interconnected.

As the climate crisis intensifies across the continent, more people are being displaced by droughts, floods, cyclones, conflict and economic instability. Yet instead of addressing the root causes of inequality and hardship, migrants are increasingly being scapegoated and targeted.

Today, the Climate Justice Coalition Secretariat stands in solidarity with all African foreign nationals and migrant communities, condemning the recent wave of Afrophobic attacks in South Africa.

There can be no climate justice without migrant justice.

Read our full Africa Day statement: https://climatejusticecoalition.org/africa-day-secretariat-condemns-afrophobia-affirming-migrant-justice-as-central-to-climate-justice/

25 May 2026 [South Africa] As we mark Africa Day on 25 May, the secretariat of the Climate Justice Coalition stands in unwavering solidarity with all African foreign nationals and migrant communities across the country. We vehemently condemn the recent wave of Afrophobic violence and rhetoric, inclu...

25/05/2026

Climate justice is migrant justice.

This Africa Day, we stand in solidarity with migrant communities and condemn the rise of Afrophobia in South Africa.

The climate crisis is already displacing people across Africa. As droughts, floods and other climate impacts worsen, more people will be forced to move in search of safety, livelihoods and dignity.

We refuse attempts to blame migrants for inequality, unemployment and failing public services. The real causes lie in those in power and their insistence on systems that put profit before people.

Our deepest thanks to for the image used in this video.

Read our full statement at the link in bio.

24/05/2026

21/05/2026

People are tired. 😒

Tired of struggling to afford electricity.

Tired of inequality and poverty.

Tired of just surviving, while the fossil fuel industry makes billions extracting from our land and exploiting our people.

It’s enough! Sikhathele.

Get ready, because next week, communities in 19 countries around the world — including South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, and Mozambique — will rise together for the global Week of Action.

At the heart of this fight is the demand for affordable electricity, energy access, justice and dignity for communities.

Stay tuned for upcoming actions and ways to get involved. ✊🏾🌍

21/05/2026

The Climate Justice Coalition leadership strongly denounces the so-called “Conference of the Left” hosted by the South African Communist Party, including the unauthorised and non-consensual use of our name in conference materials.

This misrepresentation creates a false impression of endorsement and alignment, undermining trust across movements and violating basic principles of consent in coalition and solidarity work. We are also concerned by similar patterns affecting other formations, including Abahlali baseMjondolo, where names and identities have been used without permission.

While we initially engaged in good faith exploratory dialogue, it has become clear that this convening does not reflect the transformative, people-centred politics it claims to advance. We therefore unequivocally distance ourselves from the conference and reject any implication of participation or endorsement.

As a broad-based coalition of trade unions, grassroots movements, civil society, faith-based organisations, youth structures, and climate justice activists, we remain committed to building principled, intersectional justice rooted in dignity, equality, and real systemic transformation not its distortion or co-option.

Read more: https://climatejusticecoalition.org/re-climate-justice-coalition-leadership-on-the-conference-of-the-left/

20/05/2026

Extreme weather is not “natural” when inequality determines who suffers most.

Across South Africa, droughts, floods, heatwaves and climate disasters are already disrupting lives, livelihoods and communities. We are seeing water shortages, destroyed homes, interrupted livelihoods and more.

The climate crisis is a justice issue.

Swipe to learn more about how extreme weather affects people across the country, and why climate justice matters now more than ever.