WDM was keen to bring a flavour of the perspectives on climate change from the poor majority of the world to climate camp, but how to do it without flying someone over? In the months running up to the camp we took video footage of people talking about climate change and corporate globalisation, and managed, to what is still my slight surprise, to project it, with sound, in the workshop tent we were in using the camp’s renewable energy.

Communities in the south are facing not just already dealing with the impacts of climate change, especially increased typhoons and flooding, but also many problems associated with large biofuel plantations and dubious offsetting projects. They are also concerned that the World Bank is trying to muscle in on funds for adaptation to climate change – an institution with a record not only of forcing trade liberalisation on poor countries, but of supporting large fossil fuel extraction projects and dirty development.

But they are also proposing solutions, and this is what we finished our workshop with – what would ‘climate justice’ look like? Some of the ideas involve payment of an ‘ecological debt’ from north to south, community-led sustainable development, and food sovereignty. As Walden Bello said in a specific message to the climate camp “This resistance [by the rich world] to the demands of what is needed to meet the climate crisis has generated a tremendous response from all over the world, both from developing countries and global civil society. We’re demanding that urgent action be taken, but that that action must be informed by justice.”