Thematic focus

The challenge of Climate Change can be divided into two conceptual issues. The first is understanding, quantifying, monitoring and actively reducing carbon emissions through interventions like reforestation, promoting alternative fuel sources, carbon capture and storage and replacing resource intensive processes with low carbon ones. The second is climate change adaptation and mitigation.

We believe that the ecological problem lies largely in profit-focussed overproduction which encourages high levels of consumption while also shifting blame and attention to individual lifestyles choices.
The solutions to climate change involve meeting human and environmental needs first, while being mindful of intersections with geographic, socio-political,security and justice challenges.

Security and justice issues arise from historical conflicts and uneven power structures. Violence is notably wielded as a tool to organise people. Actors of violence represent critical threats to democracy, economic development and our common well-being. Therefore, countering these actors and addressing sources of structural violence and of animosity, of conflicts and inequities are essential.  Facilitating factors such as systems of corruption, embezzlement of public resources and disinformation, need to be addressed more swiftly by national and international actors to enhance social concord.

The minimum that we should aim for is the true establishment of rule of law and regular examination of the principles of punishment to create a justice system that can assure some level of security to ordinary people. Penal systems should be reformed and is not the answer to all security concerns. Instead, we promote community service, mediation and reconciliation.