A couple of years ago, when KAIROS launched a consultation with its members and partner networks to set priorities for program work, climate justice and ecological sustainability were pressing issues for everyone, everywhere. “In the global South, climate justice was seen to have direct relationships with trade patterns, crushing debt, conflict, ecological migrants, poverty and cultural change.” This was echoed by Canadians who clearly understood that climate justice in the global North required of us a change in our lifestyles and patterns of consumption and the creation of more sustainable economies worldwide.
Here is a discussion paper by Kairos Canada, published in May 2010.