FROM EXTREME ENERGY
TO LOCALLY-ROOTED ECONOMIES
Climate Justice Alliance is a national alliance advancing Just Transition strategies in communities across the US
In these new times of political uncertainty, grassroots communities continue to lead the way forward.
About the Alliance
We envision a world in which fairness, equity and ecological rootedness are core values
Climate Justice Alliance members have won significant victories against polluting and extractive industries. We are building local alternatives that center traditional ecological and cultural knowledge and create a pathway for a regenerative future.
Our Power Campaign
As frontline communities, we pilot solutions and organize collectively to shut down the extractive economy
Climate Justice Alliance is amplifying the leadership of the original Our Power Communities while expanding to 50 communities in five regions that are home to key grassroots groups. These groups organize to end the era of extreme energy and implement a Just Transition that promotes local control of resources (including energy, land, water, and food systems).
Meta-Strategies
Together, we are advancing bold, grounded and interlinked strategies across the country
Six meta-strategies undergird the Climate Justice Alliance projected vision through 2020, and will continue to influence the trajectory of alliance work.
Just Transition
Just Transition is our
main organizing framework
The Just Transition framework is a vision-led, unifying and place-based set of principles, processes and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.
Grassroots and Movement Building Organizations
Climate Justice Alliance membership is rooted in a shared landscape analysis, priorities and overall vision. Our alliance includes base-building frontline organizations (BFOs), Alliances, Networks, and Movement Support Organizations.
Recent News
Climate Justice Alliance Decries Energy Department’s “Direct Air Capture” Announcement; Says Policy Allows Polluting Industries to Thrive at Expense of Real Solutions
Frontline Communities Will Continue to Bear the Brunt of Environment Pollution Under New Policy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, August 11, 2023 CONTACT: Anya Silverman-Stoloff | [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC — This morning, the US Department of Energy...
Grassroots-run Fund for Frontline Power Awards $5 Million in Grants to 48 Climate Justice Groups
‘SOLIDARITY PHILANTHROPY’ ADVANCES EQUITABLE, REPLICABLE CLIMATE SOLUTIONS CREATED BY BLACK, INDIGENOUS AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR COMMUNITIES Media contact: Carina Daniels [email protected] In a milestone moment for climate philanthropy, the grassroots climate...
New Climate Justice Alliance Logo
In celebration of the 10 years since our beginning as the Our Power Campaign at the first national Climate Justice Alliance gathering on Navajo Nation lands hosted by the Black Mesa Water Coalition, we are excited to reveal our new CJA logo. “We needed something that...
“Having an alliance of US frontline communities to strategically confront the existing tyranny of our country and present real solutions is needed right now.”
– Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
