Global Call to Action Against Poverty

The First Public Climate Hearing on Climate Justice took place in Chile earlier this month. Watch this video with five testimonies from communities affected by water shortages, industrial pollution and bad policies.

Communities from Chiapas, Mexico, give testimony on the impacts that climate change is already having on their work, their families and their well-being, and demand action from local, national and international leaders.

This week an unprecedented 115 world leaders will convene in Copenhagen to forge a global agreement on climate change. Thanks to the organizing efforts of citizens around the world, all of these decision makers will be in the same room. As a global community, we need to ensure they make the right decisions.

"...time is running out, we need to act now. We're calling on our leaders to be bold. Civil society, millions of people are supporting them to be bold. We are with them."

A spontaneous platform of grassroots leaders from Asia, Africa and Latin America protest the exclusion of community voices in the Copenhagen Summit and call for climate communities to be the Protagonists and not the Exhibits of the global climate debate.