The dominant responses to the climate crisis are heavily reliant on planetary management discourses, techno-scientific efficiency approaches and market-based mechanisms. A key assumption of climate science is that climate change can be addressed by more energy-efficient technology to reduce emissions and, at the same time, catalyse economic growth. Present geo-political power struggles over technological advancements and financing in the international climate change negotiations arena situate the age-old political economy state power struggles. These struggles position the Global North as leaders in shaping technological advancements, while the Global South demands financing to address the historical colonial debt. This financing is required not only to adapt to the consequences of climate change but also to support the Global South’s need for ‘catch-up’ development. However, despite the good intentions behind climate mitigation and adaptation, the colonial hierarchical and racial social relations that made the plantations and the coal plants in the first place, together with the expanding global neoliberalism, remain intact. This chapter illustrates that post-colonialism critically engages with imperial oppression, and post-colonial states in the Global South demand redress for climate change. However, the key to addressing racial and colonial exclusion is through advocating for inclusion and access to Western modernity’s political, cultural, economic and social praxis of progress and human ‘mastery’ over nature. I argue that relational and decolonial politics emanating from the knowledge of the peoples that are being erased, marginalised and rendered invisible are needed to create openings for pluriversality (Escobar, 2018) that support life-affirming solutions for addressing the climate crisis.