The meeting, held in Lisbon, was attended by dozens of organisations and a hundred people from across the country who discussed the “Plan for Climate Justice”.
During the National Meeting for Climate Justice, convened by more than 20 organisations, Climáximo launched an edited version of the Disarmament and Peace Plan, a “realistic” plan whose goal is to “halt social and ecological collapse”, and whose framework is “the climate crisis as a state of war unilaterally declared by governments and corporations against people and the planet”. Climáximo’s Disarmament and Peace Plan was one of the documents discussed during the Meeting, which brought together around a hundred people at Liceu Camões.
According to a press release, the Plan – which has been public since 2023 – consists of “dozens of measures to stop this war, halt the climate crisis, and build social justice”, and is the result of a union between “proposals formulated and discussed over the last few decades by social movements, academics, trade unions, and technicians”. The published edition features illustrations by Nuno Saraiva, who gives shape and colour to the three phases proposed by the Plan: “stopping proliferation, measures that can be taken today to halt the increase in emissions and the fossil fuel industry; decommission all weapons; to cut current emissions and begin a process of just transition; and the Peace Plan, which proposes guidelines on democracy, social justice, and the regeneration of ecosystems and society”.
“This is a plan by the people for the people that offers an alternative of justice and peace, diametrically opposed to the plans of death and destruction to which the system is condemning us. It is the responsibility of all people to take action so that the only alternative to social and climate collapse is built and realised”, says Leonor Canadas, Climáximo’s supporter and spokesperson for the statement.
And it is because of the need to “fight and build the alternative to collapse” that Climáximo has called for a “popular sit-in to stop planes, halt the climate crisis and demand more transport for the people” as part of the Meeting’s “Agenda for Climate Justice”, scheduled for June 1st at Humberto Delgado Airport, with a meeting point at 3 pm at Alameda D. Afonso Henriques in Lisbon. The group invites “everyone to participate in the popular sit-in to disrupt peak flight times”, making it clear that “the expansion of Portela and the construction of a new airport is an act of violence by governments and companies, and an investment in the wrong place. For carbon neutrality and an end to fossil fuels by 2030, we need an effective and free public transport system that serves everyone”. The next open assembly for action is scheduled for March 1st, at 2.30 pm at GAIA.
The Final Declaration of the National Meeting for Climate Justice also points to a series of other next steps and initiatives by other organisations in the climate justice movement, including a student strike “for the end of fossil fuels by 2030 on 28 April 28th, followed by “two weeks of school strikes”, called by Greve Climática Estudantil.
Peace and Disarmament Plan: https://www.climaximo.pt/plano/
Call for action “Stop the Planes”: https://www.climaximo.pt/parar-avioes/
Final Declaration of the Meeting: https://justicaclimatica.pt/