TE SPEAKS is Taproot Earth's public platform for perspective and response.
This space shares frontline voices and reports advancing Global Climate Reparations as well as our public statements and media coverage. • This space shares frontline voices and reports advancing Global Climate Reparations as well as our public statements and media coverage. • This space shares frontline voices and reports advancing Global Climate Reparations as well as our public statements and media coverage. •
As climate crises intensify, the question isn’t just how we respond, but who holds the power to rebuild. Here we explore reparative climate finance as a path forward, centering community governance, collective care, and the Reef Fund as a model for rebuilding on frontline communities’ own terms.
Watch Taproot Earth’s Krewe reflect on Hurricane Katrina’s legacy and explore the difference between getting free and practicing liberation.
Learn how the first Frontline Peoples Jubilee Convening in Rome advanced Global Climate Reparations through dialogue, repair, and collective liberation.
From the Gulf South to Appalachia to the Global South, frontline voices continue to carry the clarity, memory, and imagination needed for global climate repair. Listen to their stories and trace the solutions already in motion as they co-create a reparative future from the frontlines.
Over six weeks, Taproot Earth moved alongside frontline leaders and community members from Rome to Geneva to Belém, advancing Global Climate Reparations. Together, we uplifted land return, debt justice, climate finance rooted in repair, and frontline self-governance.
Follow the journey as movements converge toward repair and liberation. Read the field notes .
Explore this Climate Cup of Solutions, a global celebration of frontline climate solutions advancing Global Climate Reparations through repair, solidarity, and shared power.
Discover Climate on Tap, a seven-episode virtual storytelling series uplifting frontline leaders advancing climate, economic, and political justice rooted in liberation.
As part of Climate Week in New York City, Taproot Earth convened a panel on climate finance, bringing together frontline leaders to share and discuss pathways for resourcing frontline communities in a reparative response to the growing global climate crisis.
In August 2024, more than 200 frontline leaders from 27 countries across the Black Diaspora gathered in Nairobi, Kenya to collectively shape a shared framework for global climate repair. Here's their definition of Global Climate Reparations.
At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Global Climate Reparations (GCR) Fellows share their reflections, insights, and on-the-ground perspectives from the convening, offering a frontline view into the conversations shaping climate reparations.
Our archive of reports hold record of what community governance, power-building and repair look like in practice. Move through the archive to follow the ideas, strategies, and frontline leadership driving solutions and advancing liberation through climate justice.
Frontline leaders collectively call for a structural, systemic redirection of resources and shift from extractive climate finance to reparative systems rooted in justice, accountability, and community governance.
A report grounded in frontline leadership reflecting on 20 years since Katrina, advancing the rights to remain, migrate, and return as pathways to dignity, ongoing climate action, climate repair and self-determination.
A report documenting a historic gathering of frontline and faith leaders from 24 countries in Rome, outlining shared commitments and concrete pathways from extraction toward accountability, solidarity, and climate reparations.
A report grounded in frontline leadership capturing how Taproot Earth advanced climate justice in 2024 by convening, resourcing, and amplifying community-led solutions across the Gulf South, Appalachia, and the global diaspora.
A report by frontline leadership from Gulf South to Appalachia advancing a shared strategy for climate justice rooted in collective governance, regional solidarity, and community-driven solutions to repair harm and build power.
A report grounded in frontline leadership documenting a global assembly in Nairobi where over 200 leaders co-created a shared definition of climate reparations rooted in repair, accountability, and collective governance.
A report documenting how frontline communities in the Gulf South directed over $14M through participatory governance, advancing self-determination and a replicable model for reparative climate investment.
A playbook led by frontline workers and frontline communities in Kentucky. The playbook advancing a just transition through labor power, dignified work, land restoration, and the rebuilding of local economies.
A playbook grounded in frontline leadership, charting a path beyond extraction in Pennsylvania toward an economy shaped by housing justice, public investment, and community-controlled energy.
A playbook rooted in frontline struggle, reimagining democracy in Louisiana by confronting mass incarceration and climate injustice while advancing community power, safety, and self-determination.
A playbook grounded in frontline leadership outlining pathways to end fossil fuel dependence in TX and build a just transition through community-controlled energy, public renewables, and energy as a human right.
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