What is Climate Coloniality?

Every day global south frontline defenders, indigenous, rural feminists, and communities are facing the impacts of the climate crisis, building strategies and alternatives for change and sustainability. These proposals completely different from the false green solutions that the global North institution and climate system are trying to implement. However, sometimes feminists do not have enough space to think about and analyse the climate crisis colonial roots. This political education session aim to reflect and understand what climate coloniality is from a feminist economic and decolonial perspective, what is the relationship between colonialism, extractivism, capitalism and climate change? What is the matrix of power? Who are the responsibles, actors-institutions of this crisis? How can we decolonial climate coloniality? How to build counter narratives and solidarity across movements? 
Author(s): Farhana Sultana
Date Published: 2023

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