From Climate Debt to Climate Justice: Debtor Organizing and the Fight for Climate Repair

How are climate change and debt – whether sovereign, municipal or household – related under racial capitalism? When faced with a warming planet caused by centuries of racial capitalism, how are people organizing the necessary ideas and social movements to fight back? What are the alternatives and solutions to racial capitalism-driven climate change proposed both by movements on the ground, and by those in (or near) halls of power around the world, from multilateral institutions to national governments to research universities? This paper offers an accessible introduction to many of the large-scale transformative ideas out there, from green central banking to degrowth, from climate reparations to de-dollarization. In addition, based on interviews with Argentina’s Debt for Climate, Britain’s Don’t Pay UK, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, Chile’s Ni Una Menos, and the South Africa Green Revolutionary Council, this paper shares tactics and strategies used by social movements around the world to resist debt and climate in the same frame.

Download >> From Climate Debt to Climate Justice: Debtor Organizing and the Fight for Climate Repair (Published April 2026)

Poster Download >> A Reformist-to-Non-Reformist chart

Poster Download >> What Are We Abolishing? What Are We Building? summary poster