 #WeChooseNow#WeChooseNow is the message of the Southern Frontlines: a long-term campaign that GCCLP will advance into 2022 and beyond with our community partners and allies. |  GCCLP Statement on COP26COP26 showed us what we are up against but also who we're fighting alongside. |  Global Black Climate LeadersClimate leaders from the Black/African diaspora attended GCCLP's COP26 Socials in Glasgow, Scotland and Washington, DC |  Hurricane Ida ResponseGCCLP is moving with and supporting the frontlines impacted by Hurricane Ida |  Gulf South for a Green New DealGCCLP is proud to anchor GS4GND, A regional formation advancing long-existing work in our region towards climate, racial, and economic justice. |
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 #SouthernSpring2020: JuneteenthThis Juneteenth, together we showed that communities in the Gulf South are Rising to this moment around Racial Justice as part of Climate Action. |  #GulfSouthRising at COP25GCCLP brought a delegation of frontline leaders from the five Gulf South states to the international climate talks (COP25) in Madrid. December 2019. |  RE-Imagine SouthIn July 2019, GCCLP convened community leaders from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky to develop an aligned communications strategy ahead of the Fall 2019 gubernatorial elections and beyond. |  Katrina 14In 2019 GCCLP's annual community Katrina Commemoration was held in Plaquemines Parish, LA to uplift and honor frontline local leadership advancing work on the ground for the last fourteen years. |  Bayou Rising 2018GCCLP is proud to have hosted #BayouRising 2018 with our partners the United Houma Nation. The seas are rising... and so are WE. |
 Harvard Kennedy School 2019Our Executive Director Colette Pichon Battle shared the fight of the Gulf South with the Harvard Kennedy School! She led a conversation on climate justice as social justice and building equitable climate movements across the US. |  NETROOTS New Orleans 2018We are so proud our Executive Director Colette Pichon Battle was selected as a keynote speaker for Netroots Nation 2018. |  #GulfSouthRisingGCCLP anchored a 2015 regional movement initiative which highlighted the impact of the global climate crisis on the Gulf South region. |
The Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) is a non-profit, public interest law firm and justice center with a mission to advance structural shifts toward climate justice and ecological equity in communities of color on the frontline of climate change. GCCLP envisions social, economic and political systems throughout the Gulf South that promote equity and justice for all people.
GCCLP's work spans the Gulf South states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas. We believe the basis of genuine, systemic and transformative solutions that tackle the real causes of inequity in the Gulf South must be rooted in restorative justice and human rights. Our programs, services and trainings start at the intersection of Climate Justice, Migrant Rights, Land Sovereignty and Economic Opportunity for communities on the frontlines of climate change.
Through human rights-based legal services, community training, local leadership development and grassroots advocacy, GCCLP works to create structural balances in alliance with marginalized communities of the Gulf South. GCCLP’s programmatic work and community campaigns emerge from coastal communities on the frontlines of climate change.
GCCLP contributes a southern perspective on issues that have national impact and global influence.