Another international climate conference is being held in an oil-rich nation, filled with fossil fuel lobbyists. Donald “drill baby drill” Trump won the US election. British climate activists be locked up for years for acting about the greatest crisis facing humanity. The oil companies win climate processes.

And of course, devastating human-created climate disasters that engulf life Europe, South America, Africa, Asia – almost too many places to count.

You’d be forgiven for feeling that the climate movement is on the back foot; like the fight is only getting harder for us.

But there is something bigger and more powerful than the Trumpian ego, or the eye-watering profits of the world’s worst polluters.

It is hope. It is resistance. And it should be supported, shared and reinforced.

Community Gathering for Climate Justice, November 25-29

The Community Gathering for Climate Justice brings community leaders from around the world to the UK.

During the week, they will exchange knowledge, share skills and develop strategies to resist fossil fuels in their communities and demand climate justice.

The gathering hosts people from communities in Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, Argentina, Colombia, Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Italy, Great Britain, the Philippines and Guyana.

Participants include:

• Environmental lawyers working with grassroots communities to litigate cement and chemical companies and aim to take on international oil companies.
• Communities fighting deadly oil and gas pollution in Iraq.
• British activists fight to stop oil drilling in the North Sea
• Those who filed climate lawsuits against oil companies in the wake of devastating typhoons that have destroyed entire areas of the Philippines.
• Fishing communities of women and young people standing up to oil companies in Senegal.
• Colombian river communities fight fracking.

Gatherings like these are important if we want to tackle climate change in a way that works for all of us. We need to listen to and organize with as many voices as possible – especially people who are already experiencing it.

The people-driven solutions to this crisis – which both solve the problem and allow everyone to thrive – already exist.

What matters is who we listen to (like these leaders fighting for justice) and who we don’t (like fossil fuel lobbyists)…

Celebrate and support the activists fighting for all our futures

The oil companies’ reach is global – and so are their climate crimes. But the scale and energy of the resistance should not be underestimated.

Everywhere, all over the world, people are organizing to fight back against a system of corporate power that is destroying our only planetary home.

We can win this fight. But to do that we must be greater than the sum of our parts. We cannot exist in a vacuum or work in silos – we are strongest when we come together.

And every community’s struggle counts too. Any fossil fuel company held accountable for its pollution, death and destruction – is a win for all of us, anywhere in the world.

Everyone who cares about climate change has a common cause. This is why these spaces are so important: to share stories, build networks, connect struggles. Join us and welcome our global community.