Governance Assembly Report 2025
"Rooted in a long history of liberation movements and struggles from the US South to the Global South, this assembly represents the culmination of over three years of work facilitating conversations and collective decisions with over 300 frontline partners on global climate reparations. Frontline leaders joined us from Senegal to Brazil to the US Gulf South to dance, laugh, and collaboratively set out a working statement for global climate reparations. This work was made possible through the dedication and work of the Global Facilitation Team, the intentional care of partners over the years, and the Taproot Earth Krewe and consultants energy and labor ensured that work was rooted in accountability, trust, and care at every level. Critically, the process, vision and statement within this document is the result of over 200 participants giving their time, leadership, and energy of their communities to the table in co-creation and collective governance. Together, we move toward the liberation horizon.
Peace,"
Taproot
The Global Climate Reparations Movement Governance Assembly was facilitated by a Global Facilitation Team of 26 leaders from 12 countries. This process was facilitated and convened in partnership with significant local formations and leaders including: Lapid Leaders Africa, Sustainable Energy Access Forum-Kenya, Afrikki Movement, Africans Rising, ZanArts and Children’s Environmental Health Network.
After the climate disaster flooded the informal settlements of Nairobi, killing hundreds and displacing thousands of people in Spring 2024, Taproot Earth, local partners and members of the global facilitation team made the collective decision to postpone the assembly for two months, from the original date in June to the new date in August. Both empathy and political solidarity, rooted in experiences of climate disasters surfaced a commitment to not add strain to local public services and infrastructure that otherwise should be focused on communities and their recovery. To read about the local and global environmental and liberation work Taproot and other allied organizations are doing click the "read more" button below.
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