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I am Climate Justice
ICJ – I am Climate Justice
is a movement composed of volunteers around the world, students, activists, artists and high-profile lawyers, who use the power of the law to pressurize governments to protect future generations from the climate crisis.
ICJ works in 3 areas of action: the individual, the local and the national. The individual area begins with inviting people to commit themselves to certain personal actions, no matter how small. Through this, they created a database of the people who got involved, and began to measure the joint impact generated by all these actions, to demonstrate that however small the effort, an important result is achieved. Every small effort creates an impact which increases when you put all these “small impacts” together.
Nationally they have four projects: “Food Gardens” (urban agriculture proposal), “Road sharing” (traffic control: designing cycle lanes, pedestrian crossings and walkways etc) and two other projects designed to promote rain water collection and drainage systems.
Through this action at local and national level, ICJ moved onto the international stage, when they were invited to participate in the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York. They presented a petition to the International Court of Justice posing the question: “In this climate crisis, what are the duties of States under International Law to the present and future generations?”
To know more
ICJ Website
Facebook.com/iamclimatejustice
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