You might have heard of us in completely different contexts, from completely different sources. At any specific time, our public-facing communications might give you a completely different impression. In general, our website is a mess if you want to get the full picture – especially because such a picture is almost inexistent. So we wanted to tell you a little bit about this collective called Climáximo.

We are an informal, anticapitalist collective, entirely made up of precarious people who volunteer several hours in their lives for climate justice, in a zero budget environment. This naturally means that it’s not clear who is in the collective and who is not. What matters is that some people come together and do things together. So, what matters is what these people did and what that means.

Trying to pinpoint what topic Climáximo has worked on, perhaps the only heading that might describe it all would be climate justice.

The first few years of Climáximo were dedicated to the resistence to oil and gas projects across the country. Supporting frontline groups and articulating a national network, we participated in the grassroots movement which in less than a decade (2014-2020) cancelled all of the 15 contracts. This line of work later continued with the campaigns Gás é Andar para Trás (2020-2024), Parar o Gas (2022-2024) and End Fossil (2024 onwards).

In tandem with the fight against fossil fuel projects, Climáximo developed a just transition framework through the Climate Jobs campaign (2016-2023). We worked with trade unions, we had hundreds of meetings with workers in key sectors, and we produced detailed reports on how to achieve a fossil fuel phase-out with an ecosocial transformation towards energy democracy.

Another major topic that people in Climáximo dedicated their efforts was aviation. This involved mass actions like Em Chamas (2021) and Parar os Aviões (2025), as well as articulations with the housing movement against mass tourism. Some people also had a specific focus on private jets with the Abolir os Jatos campaign (2023).

Climáximo touched almost all topics associated with the climate crisis. To name a few, people did actions that addressed banks and finance, food systems, trade agreements, cost of living, global justice, transport systems, industrial policy and many more… One topic that might deserve a highlight is forest fires, associated with monoculture plantations and spatial planning policies. This involved the Climate Justice Caravan (2022) as well as the most recent efforts of frontline organizing (2025).

We know that, more than topics, the image you get of us are the tactics. But even for that aspect, you can have a completely different take depending on when you are looking.

From its first days on, Climáximo has been at the forefront of the climate marches, facilitating a space for dozens of organizations to unite behind the banner of climate justice. The platform Salvar o Clima organized a total of eleven demonstrations (2016-2022).

There were several mass city blockades that Climáximo was involved in, like Extinction Rebellion (2019), Nós Somos os Anti-corpos (2020), Em Chamas (2021) and Parar Enquanto Podemos (2024).

There were also mass actions against polluting infrastructures, like Camp-in-Gas (2018), Galp Must Fall (2020), Vamos Juntas (2021), Climate Justice Caravan (2022), Acampamento 1.5 (2022), Parar o Gas (2023) and Parar os Aviões (2025).

In the last few years, there were also a wave of actions done by supporters of Climáximo. These had two aspects. On the one hand, there were actions of public disruption, like road blockades and interruptions of cultural events and spaces. These were coupled with actions of disruption of destruction, directed at companies responsible for the climate crisis. (2023-2025)

Throughout this process, we produced a decent amount of reports and policy papers. Some worth of mention are the Climate Jobs reports (2016, 2019, 2021), the National Inventory of Emissions (2021), the Sines Just Transition Case Study (2022), and the latest synthesis of all our learnings in the Disarmament Plan and the Peace Plan (2023 onwards).

As we did all of this, there was a lot of movement building happening, too.

At the national level, we were in the organizing team of a total of ten annual National Climate Justice Gatherings (2016-2025). We also actively participated in dozens of cross-movement alliances, like Rede 8 de Março (2016-2019, while the network continues), Resgatar o Futuro platform (2020), Casa para Viver (2022 onwards), the movement for Palestine, and an uncountable amount of demonstrations for social justice in its diverse forms.

At the international level, we have been in all spaces of articulation that we managed to contribute to. Starting with Climate Justice Action (2015-2023), Beyond Gas (2016 onwards), Stay Grounded (2016 onwards), The Global Climate Jobs network (2016-2022) International Ecosocialist Encounters (2018 onwards), By 2020 We Rise Up (2018-2020), the Glasgow Agreement (2020-2022), Earth Social Conference (2023), Their Time to Pay (2023), The Surge (2025), Peoples’ Platform Europe (2025) and hundreds of conferences, camps, actions and gatherings.

We are listing all of this, to make a simple point. If you want to create an “identity” of Climáximo based on what people did under the umbrella of Climáximo, then you will have a lot of difficulty. What matters is something a bit more profound, and it’s about the state of climate emergency we live in.

All of the above were trials and experimentations, with errors (sometimes collosal ones) and with victories (sometimes massive ones), frustrations and celebrations. Sometimes we found the sweet spot, other times we missed the target by far. Sometimes we screwed up (and generated too much to learn in one go), sometimes we did everything within our reach. If you are looking for perfect people, you will be deeply disappointed when hanging out with people that did stuff with Climáximo.

A sentence like “Climáximo is the collective that does X.” doesn’t have meaning. At the most, Climáximo is the collective that does what needs to be done in a specific movement and in a specific context.

Climáximo is a space of paying attention and of strategic agility.

Climáximo is a space where you will find people with determination who are available to do what it takes.

Climáximo is a space of honesty and of a learning discipline.

It’s not a fixed identity. It’s a collective space in construction. (In fact, this culture is embodied in the Declaration of State of Climate Emergency within Climáximo, which every years puts in check all the strategic priorities and functioning.)

In short, Climáximo is where you find people you can count on.

This is just one of many ways of telling the story of the ten years of Climáximo and of what Climáximo might possibly mean. (Perhaps the most coherent story is told in our recently published collective book Quebrar em Caso de Emergência.)

This article is just one of many ways of extending our hands to you, inviting you to walk with us.