The global climate crisis is accelerating, shaped by systems that extract, concentrate harm, and withhold power from the very communities most impacted. What’s needed is not only mitigation, but repair rooted in accountability and justice.
Taproot Earth is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advancing Global Climate Reparations. We move beyond emissions targets to support community-led solutions grounded in Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, and frontline governance across water, energy, land, labor, economy, and democracy. We invest in the people, practices, and systems that make repair real and replicable across movements and regions.
To advance Global Climate Reparations, we shift power, resources, and decision-making to frontline communities most impacted by climate harm. Our work is grounded in three core commitments that shape how we organize, govern, and build toward just climate futures:
Explore our latest reports on frontline-led climate action and climate repair.
Frontline leaders call for a shift from extractive climate finance to reparative systems rooted in justice, accountability, and community governance. They outline how redirecting resources can support a sustainable liberated future.
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.
Explore featured stories that uplift frontline voices, capture field notes, and reflect the liberated, climate-just future we all deserve.
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.
We advance climate action in alignment with #WeChooseNow and Global Climate Reparations, two frontline-led campaigns that mirror in intent and strategy. Both unite communities across borders and regions to shape and exercise self-determination, move resources, build power, and make climate repair real together.
#WeChooseNow is a frontline-led climate action strategy and campaign, born from movement collaboration across the Gulf South and Appalachia. It aligns work across water, land, energy, democracy, labor, and economy while centering Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, and frontline governance.
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Global Climate Reparations is a global frontline-led initiative to advance repair rooted in accountability and justice. It supports community-governed models across climate finance, migration, land stewardship, and democratic decision-making that shift power and resources to communities impacted most by climate harm.
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Climate action comes to life through formations, where frontline communities across regions, resourced and supported by Taproot, put #WeChooseNow into practice and advance Global Climate Reparations, sustaining collective action over time.
A regional formation of frontline leaders across 16 states and one colonized territory building political power, shared strategy, and community-led climate solutions rooted in interconnected histories, lands, and waters.
A global formation of Black organizers across the Diaspora connecting climate frontline wisdom to build models of governance, stewardship, and repair rooted in Black liberation and collective self-determination.
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.
Invest in the people, spaces and practices making repair and action real across regions and movements.
