Global Climate Commons Regime

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By John Jopling:

"Just as the actions of Henri Dunant and his friends led to the setting up of the International Commission of the Red Cross, so an independent Global Climate Commons Regime can be established by citizens without government assistance. The new regime’s most urgent task will be to establish a global permit scheme controlling the entry of fossil fuels onto the market anywhere in the world, the total number of permits being reduced each year, the permits being sold for market value and the proceeds divided between citizens everywhere. The role of governments will simply be to police the scheme.

That’s the outcome we need to aim for. Achieving it will require ‘people power’. A wide range of non-governmental organisations will have to cooperate in establishing the new regime. Like all commons regimes, it will require “a cooperative and participatory process”, initiated and developed by non-state and non-corporate actors who are not fatally compromised by their deep involvement in the fossil fuel economy and who share common values.


We can knit together the connections between multiple organisations, groups and commoners, creating a dense network with multiple peer to peer climate related commons nodes based on real activities, eg.

  • existing indigenous commons organisations and support networks
  • organisations taking legal actions relating to climate eg coastal communities, port cities, island states, farmers
  • people collecting information on fossil fuel industry, identifying where and by whom fossil fuels are introduced into the economy eg coalswarm
  • people researching the constitution and modus operandi of a Global Climate Commons Trust "

(http://www.feasta.org/2013/03/19/co-creating-a-global-climate-commons-regime/)