We are a non-hierarchical, transnational and multilingual network, advocating drug policy reform as essential for environmental justice. We act with urgency to protect our planet's most ecologically-fragile territories. Our coalition brings together organizations, researchers, academics, activists, artists & journalists from around the world with expertise in:

  • Drug Policy Reform

  • Environmental Justice

  • Agroecology

  • Food Sovereignty

  • Forest Conservation

  • Indigenous & Human Rights

  • Public Health

  • Harm Reduction

A WORLD TRANSFORMED

VISION

We envision a world transformed: where drug policy no longer entrenches extractivism, racism, violence, corruption and oppression but instead becomes a linchpin for global climate resilience strategies. A future where once-clandestine drug economies are now legally-regulated, ecologically-regenerative and deeply rooted in reparative justice. The communities once devastated by the so-called ‘war on drugs’ have taken positions of leadership; human rights are central; and vital ecosystems are thriving.

MISSION STATEMENT

We work to expose the underlying connections between drug prohibition, ecological destruction, and social injustice: making these interconnections central to the climate and biodiversity agenda. Through bridge-building between environmental and drug policy reform movements, we create the conditions for equitable, reparative and eco-regenerative drug markets to emerge.

Acknowledge the connection between drug policy and the wider climate emergency…

Share our report with your networks. Learn about drug policy and the impacts of current drug policies on human rights, public health, sustainable development, indigenous communities and the environment.

Start an open and honest dialogue within your networks...

Engage in an open dialogue around the intersection of drug policy and environmental reform movements within your organisation and with other allied groups, without fear or stigma. Explore this subject with peers and colleagues by identifying where your work intersects with themes in the report. How might the people you work with, and the places they seek to protect, be at risk from current drug policies?

Invite drug policy reform experts and advocates into the environmental space…

This is an opportunity for mutual learning and capacity building between our two movements. We need your support to bring drug policy reform to key forums - from addressing urgent local and grassroots concerns, to key international policy forums such the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. . Invite us to your meetings, conferences and events.

Integrate drug policy reform into the climate agenda…

Join The International Coalition for Drugs Policy Reform and Environmental Justice to strengthen the allyship between our two movements. Begin to include narratives around prohibition as a driver of environmental destruction and a barrier to much needed climate mitigation and adaptation in your work and analysis. Work up to calling out prohibition, by doing so you will be shouldering some of the risk and sharing some of the labour often left to frontline human rights and environmental defenders.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Be part of designing new legal regulatory drug frameworks...

To complement ongoing action on the environment and climate justice, ee need your expertise in ensuring drug policy reforms are aligned with wider goals of protecting the environment, indigenous communities, and delivering sustainable development. Ending the generational failures of the war on drugs, and ensuring a just transition to what follows, requires the meaningful engagement of and solidarity between drug reform and environmental movements