We begin by repairing relationships between people, land, water, and systems harmed by extraction, colonization, and racial capitalism. Repair creates the conditions for trust, alignment, and collective self-governance to emerge.
We invest in community leaders and formations to cultivate shared political analysis, strengthen relationships across borders, and practice collective self-governance in real time.
We support frontline communities in designing, implementing, and governing tangible models of Global Climate Reparations that can be replicated and adapted across contexts.
We honor Indigenous self-determination and stewardship of land and water, challenging colonial borders and extractive systems.
We center the lived experiences, resistance, and leadership of Black communities across the Diaspora most impacted by extraction.
We believe frontline community governance is vital and its centering of self-determination and Indigenous wisdom in decision-making and resource flow is core to climate repair.
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COLETTE PICHON BATTLE, ESQ., VISIONS & INITIATIVES PARTNER @ TAPROOT EARTH
Our shared commitments guide how we move and show up in the three interconnected strategies at the core of our approach to Global Climate Reparations.
We design and convene spaces centered in Black liberation where frontline communities can dream, vision, and chart pathways to implement GCR together.
We move resources, training, and infrastructure to frontline leaders to implement community stewardship, movement governance, and tangible models across regions.
We document processes, outcomes, and governance models so frontline-led solutions can inform broader movement strategy and be replicated beyond Taproot Earth's work.
"Liberation requires us to be in relationship with one another. When we convene, we reject the borders that keep us separated and weave our stories together. We move from a place of collective power to make decisions together, cultivate spaces of joy, healing, and care so people can breathe into a vision of possibility, and choose to act with a love that gives hope and life to new systems."
ANTHONY GIANCATARINO, STRATEGY PARTNER @ TAPROOT EARTH
Frontline communities hold the memory, the analysis, and the imagination needed to shape what comes next. From the Gulf South to Appalachia to across the Global South, the formations we resource are rooted in place, built through relationship, and led by those most impacted by climate harm. These are not abstract networks. They are living, breathing sites of strategy, care, and collective power in motion. Explore each to see how they advance climate action and repair together.
A global formation of Black leaders across the African Diaspora connecting climate frontline wisdom to build models of governance, stewardship, and repair rooted in Black liberation, Black joy and collective self-determination.
A regional formation of frontline organizations and leaders across 17 states building political power, shared strategy, and community-led climate solutions rooted in the interconnected histories, lands, and waters of the Gulf South and Appalachia.
A formation of attorneys and legal workers supporting frontline-led movements with legal strategy, protection, and infrastructure to dismantle extractive systems and advance equitable, democratic futures.
In 2021, frontline communities across the Gulf South and Appalachia facing the realities of climate harm came together to ask questions about our future. What emerged was not just a campaign, but a climate action strategy rooted in frontline governance and the belief that those closest to the harm must shape what comes next. Taproot Earth: #WeChooseNow.
We recognize that transformation is collective. The power to reshape our future lives in the relationships, wisdom, and shared leadership of frontline people moving together.
We organize with intention and agency. Choosing means refusing systems that extract and divide while building structures rooted in care, accountability, and shared power.
We act with urgency grounded in possibility. The global climate crisis demands action in this moment, and frontline communities are already building the pathways forward.
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We advocate for and defend worker dignity and collective power, advancing labor practices that ensure safety, fair wages, and climate-just livelihoods.
We advance policies and models that shift power away from extractive fossil fuel industries toward responsible, community-governed energy stewardship.
We power frontline stewardship of lakes, rivers, and seas, advancing community governance that protects shared water systems from extraction and harm.
We repair relationship between people and land, advancing regenerative practices and Indigenous-led stewardship that sustain liberated climate futures.
We strengthen participatory governance, advancing community-led decision-making that restores accountability and power to those most impacted.
We work toward regenerative economies beyond extraction, centering shared abundance, community ownership, and durable systems of repair.
In 2024, frontline leaders from across the Global South gathered in Nairobi, Kenya to collectively define what climate repair requires. Through a Movement Governance Assembly process, participants developed a working statement for Global Climate Reparations rooted in Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, and collective stewardship of land, water, and resources.
In 2025, that vision continued through a Frontline Peoples Jubilee Convening in Rome, advancing a global call for repair across movements, faith institutions, and systems of power.
In 2026, this work continues through the development of frontline-led solutions across six interconnected pillars of climate justice: water, energy, land, labor, economy, and democracy.
Your investment is a seed in a future shaped by repair, dignity, and self-determination.
Climate on Tap is a podcast amplifying frontline leaders advancing solutions that interconnect climate, economic, and political crises across regions and borders.
The seven-episode series weaves reflection and dialogue, honoring Hurricane Katrina and Ida, and illuminating their collective power to shape a future where all can live, rest, and thrive. Listen here.
The Climate Cup of Solutions celebrates frontline wisdom. Inspired by the unifying spirit of football, it uplifts frontline climate leaders advancing Global Climate Reparations and invites all to move climate action beyond borders.
Each story and solution reflects courage, solidarity, and shared power, offering pathways to a future where all can live, rest, and thrive. Explore them here.
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.
