The Climate & Migrant Justice Organising Group (CMJ) is a collective of 12 climate, migrant and racial justice organisations working to build collaboration and strengthen the intersection between climate and migrant justice. We support a cross movement network of over 150 groups across the country – from grassroots and migrant-led groups through to national NGOs and networks, as well as policy and campaigning organisations. Email nick[at]waronwant[dot]org to get involved!
- – Why does climate justice mean migrant justice?
- – Climate & migration: dangerous narratives guide
- – Home office raids: how to take action
- – Read our open letter and article to UK leaders during COP28
- – Refugee Week highlights: #WeFightTogether
- – Intersection resource library
Migrant communities are facing unprecedented attacks. As the far right dominates political discourse and policy: normalising border militarisation, deepening the hostile environment and eroding climate action. At the same time, as the climate crisis worsens and impacts on people in at-risk communities become increasingly severe, more people are forced to leave their homes. In response, countries in the Global North are spending billions on violent border systems, far outspending climate finance needed to protect communities globally from the impacts of climate breakdown.
Communities facing inequality and oppression are most vulnerable to both the effects of climate breakdown and violent border policies.
To defend people’s right to stay in their communities in the face of climate breakdown, and their right to move – safely and with dignity – there is a clear and urgent need to connect the migrant and climate justice movements across the UK. Building stronger, more interconnected communities is essential to counter the threat of the far right: to migrant communities and to climate justice.
The CMJ includes: Migrants Organise, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, No Borders in Climate Justice, War on Want, Climate Outreach, Racial Justice Network, Tipping Point UK, People & Planet, Global Justice Now, Climate Justice Coalition, Global Strategic Communications Council, Earth Refuge.
