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COMMUNITIES TAKING BOLD ACTION ON THE FRONTLINES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Justice Alliance is challenging the extractive economy that is harming people and ecosystems
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 70 communities in seven 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
We Must Respect–Not Repeal–Hard-fought Community Protections like the Endangerment Finding
The EPA Must Be Allowed to Continue Setting Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Contact: [email protected] Washington DC - In the coming days, the Trump administration is expected to move forward with a repeal of the Endangerment Finding, a 2009 foundational...
Climate Justice Alliance Supports a People’s AI Action Plan
We need an AI Plan that protects people and the planet, not a plan that accelerates extraction Contact: [email protected] Today, the Trump Administration released an AI plan that would fast-track industry growth by rapidly expanding data centers, many of them...
House Funding Bills are a Payout to Polluters
Contact: [email protected] In response to a slew of anti-environmental appropriations bills, including the House Interior, Environment and Related Agencies and the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies FY 2026 Bills, Climate Justice Alliance (CJA)...
“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
