The goal of the Climate Justice tour is to broaden the climate debate by amplifying the voices of peoples around the world who are already being impacted by climate change. In doing so, the initiative will:

1) Empower peoples and communities already being impacted by climate change by promoting their stories throughout the world.

2) Empower people to become active in the climate movement by humanizing and personalizing climate change, which is otherwise an often daunting, disempowering and abstract problem.

Building the movement against global warming in the United States plays a pivotal role in the global effort to stop climate change. This is because:

* With 6% of the world's population, the U.S. emits 25% of the world's carbon emissions. (this, however, does not include the emissions from countries like China and India that directly result from the manufacture of goods for export to the U.S.)

* The U.S. military is the largest single emitter of carbon on the planet.

* The U.S. and the World Bank (in which the U.S. has de-facto veto decision-making power) dominate the discussion of what to do about global warming with market-based false solutions.

* The historic role of the U.S. in the international climate negotiations has been to obstruct any forward progress.

The New Voices on Climate Change, Climate Justice Tour speakers are:

• Jihan Gearon
• Faith Gemmill
• Camila Moreno
• Anna Pinto

Topics covered

• Indigenous Community Organizing for Energy and Climate Justice
• Women's Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty and Climate Change
• Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands
• Biotechnology and GMO impacts on Peasant Agriculture