Born from collective urgency and a refusal of complacency, this final declaration stemming from the People’s Court for Climate Trials (Nov 29, 2025) outlines our demands for a just and livable future. We move beyond critique to declare the necessary paths for system change, accountability, and movement building.

OUR DEMANDS FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE

We demand centering feminism, care, and ecological integrity.

We demand the end of exploitation and capitalism.

We reject the artificial separation between humanity and nature — we are nature. Our ethics are grounded in care: for each other, for all living beings, and for the planet itself. This implies a radical shift: work less, work for all, produce what is necessary, and redistribute wealth and resources.

Therefore, we demand an end to all forms of environmental exploitation: not only an end to greenhouse gas emissions, but also toxic pollution, deforestation, ecosystem destruction, and the appropriation of species.

We insist on healing our relationship with Earth through compassion, reverence, and a restored balance, strengthening the discourse on interconnectedness.


CONCRETE AND NON-NEGOTIABLE MEASURES

I – Energy & Regulation

We demand a Fast, Free, Fair, and Funded Fossil Fuel Phase-Out. Governments must enact mechanisms for the non-proliferation of fossil fuels and ensure a just energy transition.

We demand strict, binding regulations in developed countries — the primary historical emitters — aligned with human rights and climate justice. 
We demand an end to voluntary corporate promises, and demand transparency, along with consequences and sanctions .

II – Accountability

Polluters must pay for climate risks, damages, and adaptation. We demand an end to corporate impunity for climate and human rights violations.

Full reparation must be provided for losses and damages caused by destructive projects (such as mining, dams, extraction) and climate disasters. Perpetrators of socio-environmental crimes must be held accountable, including those responsible for the deaths of land and environmental defenders.

Corporations responsible for biodiversity loss and oceanic degradation must acknowledge their historical and ongoing responsibilities. Their binding obligations include: climate and biodiversity taxes, mandatory loss and damage finance, full disclosure, and direct investment in ecosystem restoration and community resilience. The income from the taxes have to be used to support climate victims and underprivileged people. Sustainable environment protection and social justice is inseparable.

III - Decolonizing Knowledge, Thinking and Action

We demand that science has to overcome colonial perspectives and refuse opportunism to appease policymakers within imperialist-capitalist systems.

Land ownership in its capitalist form disqualifies individuals from parliamentary representation, as they cannot conceive of land as a global common. We demand the enforcement of Indigenous Peoples' right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) and the establishment of mechanisms for indigenous participation as part of climate agreements.

We demand an end to the hypocrisy of international forums like the UNFCCC and COPs, which simulate action without substance.

DIRECTIONS FOR OUR MOVEMENT

We center the voices and lived experiences of affected communities as valid evidence in legal battles.

We aim at reversing the burden of proof in climate litigation.

Global civil society networks, especially in Europe, must intensify solidarity and support for frontline communities worldwide.

We must be our own hope. Every victory, however partial, is essential. We call for trust in our collective power to build a just future for all life.

Privileged actors within the movement must actively deconstruct their privileges and decolonize their mindsets.

We must prioritize strategic litigation to enforce accountability, while continuously strengthening our political education. Still, we acknowledge that law is not justice. 

Our organizing must place the fight against social inequality at its core. Radical democratization is our antidote to fascism. We must overcome competitive thinking and collectivize knowledge and experiences about ecological change.

Our struggle is an anti-imperialist, anti-colonial struggle against capitalism, for a classless society and equal human rights for all people worldwide.