Radical Realism for Climate Justice

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible. And it is our best hope of achieving environmental and social justice, of containing the impacts of a global crisis that was born out of historical injustice and highly unequal responsibility.

Our Dossier is a civil society response to the challenge of limiting global warming to 1.5°C while also paving the way for climate justice. Because it’s is neither ‘naïve’ nor ‘politically unfeasible’, it is radically realistic.

Here you find an introductory overview of the disucssion on 1.5°C. 

'Radical Realism' video series

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require a radical and deep transformation towards ecological sustainability and social justice.

#1 Exit from coal, oil & gas

Radical Realism for Climate Justice: A Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

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About the need for a managed decline of fossil fuel production and infrastructure.
With Oil Change International

#3 Getting out of industrial agriculture

Radical Realism for Climate Justice: From Industrial Agriculture to Peasant Agroecology - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

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About the need for reclaiming a food system based on food sovereignty, small-scale farming and peasant agroecology.
With La Via Campesina

#2 Zero waste and circular economy

Radical Realism for Climate Justice: From Linear Economy to a Zero Waste Society - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

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About the need for our linear, throw-away economies to shift to zero-waste, circular economies.
With Zero Waste Europe

Demanding this transformation is not ‘naïve’, it is radically realistic.

Publication: Radical Realism for Climate Justice

This publication is a civil society response to the challenge of limiting global warming to 1.5°C while also paving the way for climate justice. It brings together the knowledge and experience of a range of international groups, networks and organisations the Heinrich Böll Foundation has worked with over the past years.

Publications

A change of course - How to build a fair future in a 1.5° world

In Paris in 2015 governments agreed to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees. The mainstream pathways pin theirhopes to risky and costly technologies. In this joint publication, together with Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and Misereor, we present alternatives that are possible and necessary for a change of course.

Carbon Metrics

Just in time for the current UNFCCC COP in Morocco (7-18 November 2016), we are publishing the second edition of "Carbon Metrics". The revised edition takes last year's Paris Agreement into account and also looks at the impacts of new technologies such as carbon capture and storage.

Dossiers

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