Sri Lankan Youth Energy, their Ideals and Vision for a Safe Earth
This session will feature a short documentary on young climate activists in Sri Lanka, followed by a discussion of young Sri Lankan people’s hopes and vision for a safe, greener […]
You do not need to register for a ticket or a COVID registration wristband at the Sauchiehall Street hub for events at Deep End, GalGael and Landing Hub. You will still need to show a negative lateral flow test confirmation on entrance to get a wristband and venue capacity still apply.
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Youth Climate Organising in London
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, GlasgowThis workshop will feature members of a grassroots anti-pollution campaign in Brixton - Choked Up, exploring how young people in london used creative actions and political strategy to make a […]
Forest women and their fight against climate change.
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, GlasgowIndigenous and forest women from the Global Alliance, representing indigenous and forest women from tropical forests from Amazonia, Brasil, Mesoamerica and Indonesia voice their communy based contributions in the fight […]
Combating the world’s most dangerous climate bomb: The Permian Basin
GalGael 15 Fairley Street, Govan, GlasgowJoin a panel and strategy dialogue featuring frontline leaders fighting the largest expanding oil and gas field in the world across the supply chain, from extraction in west Texas and […]
The Robin Hood Game 2
Deep End 21 Nithsdale Street, GlasgowA fun, active, intergenerational, running-around game to explore our influence on climate policy and share understanding of the direct impact of government and leaders’ decisions. This session is also running […]
How to cut through the noise at the COP
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People and Nature vs The UNFCCC: A People’s Tribunal on the United Nations Framework Convention in Climate Change
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, GlasgowAt current global average heating at 1.2°C, we are already seeing various climate-induced catastrophes that are producing adverse impacts, not just on the environment, but also people’s health and their […]
The People’s Health Hearing: Health Justice means Climate Justice
The People’s Health Hearing seeks to bear witness to the public health impacts of extractive industries, create a space that connects to people’s struggles and set out a vision for […]
Wellbeing and Open Space for Peoples Summit Attendees
Woodlands Community Events Terrace is open for reflection, network and planning. A space to unwind, recharge and meet people from both local and international campaigns. Join in with wellbeing activities […]
COP26 Solidarity Vigil for Persecuted Environmental Defenders
Clydeside AmphitheatreJoin a solidarity vigil, organised by Amnesty to remember protesters around the world who are persecuted for their environmental activism.
CANCELLED: The far-right, extractivism and the crackdown on trade unions and environmental activists in Colombia and Brazil
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, GlasgowThe far-right is accelerating climate devastation in Colombia and Brazil, at the same time as cracking down on trade unions and environmental activists: Colombia alone had 65 environmental defenders killed […]
How to have ‘Transformative Conversations’
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, GlasgowWe live in an ever more divided society, with growing narratives of division and blame.. Yet we won’t change this culture simply by shouting louder. We need to develop the […]
Extractivist growth and alternatives from below: Why we can’t mine our way out of the climate crisis.
We will bring together voices from frontline communities and supporting organisations to discuss ongoing injustices related to mining and its new presentation as ‘green extractivism, and to discuss post-extractivist/post-growth perspectives […]
Corporate Courts = Climate Chaos
This session will explore Corporate Courts (also called ISDS), the legal mechanism in trade deals that blocks climate action and exacerbates global injustice. It will hear from an activist and […]
Film + Q&A: Immuto (Change): Reciprocity and questions of hope
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, GlasgowImmuto (Change) helps stimulate processes of intellectual, emotional, and ethical decolonization required to change the course of the climate emergency and biocultural collapse. Shot in Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Morocco, the […]
Resisting Fortress Europe/UK
GalGael 15 Fairley Street, Govan, GlasgowIn this interactive workshop, we map major developments in European border controls and make links with the UK’s new draconian Nationality and Borders Bill and militarised response to Channel boat […]
Legal solutions to protect the future of life on Earth: criminalising Ecocide and expanding the Rights of Nature.
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, GlasgowThis circle of discussion will approach the criminalisation of ecocide and the rights of nature, as legal solutions to protect and care for the natural living world on a global […]
The Robin Hood Game 1
Fred Paton 19 Carrington Street, GlasgowA fun, active, intergenerational, running-around game to explore our influence on climate policy and share understanding of the direct impact of government and leaders’ decisions. This session is also running […]
Right-wing responses to the climate crisis: An update from the Zetkin Collective
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, GlasgowRepresentatives from the author-collective behind White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism are inviting for a session on the political ecology of climate denial and a few […]
Spycops and the legacy of surveillance on the Environmental movement
A panel exploring the historical legacy of the Spycops infiltration of environmental movements in the UK. What led to this level of surveillance and how can we prevent it happening […]
Morning cuppa for People’s Summit attendees
Tea and coffee, and a chance to make new connections. Take a break from the busy COP26 schedule and have a cuppa at Woodlands Community Events Terrace. Whilst here pay […]
School is Dead? Long Live Learning!
Queen's Park Langside Rd, GlasgowJoin Us in an exploration of the future of learning from around the globe in an interactive exhibition space, to discuss, learn and strategise about how we make education better […]
Woodlands Community Vegan Cafe – lunch option for registered Peoples Summit attendees
Woodlands Community Events Terrace 66 Ashley Street, GlasgowWoodlands Community Cafe is open to registered attendees of the People's Summit at our Outdoor Events Terrace at 66 Ashley Street, G3 6HW. It will be a chance to meet […]
Capitalism, agribusiness and pandemics
How agribusiness and its model of production/expansion and environmental devastation have been the cause of “crises” that can trigger possible viral cycles and other pandemics.
The Shorelines Project – Connecting Art & Activism
Adelaide Place 209 Bath Street, GlasgowThe Shorelines project at this years people's summit is an opportunity for people to express their thoughts on the importance of climate change through a live art mural session, supported […]
Giant Snakes and Ladders
Fred Paton 19 Carrington Street, GlasgowEducating about the Climate crisis through a game
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Nature-Based Solutions
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, GlasgowCorporations are pushing Nature-Based Solutions as a solution to the climate crisis, but Indigenous Peoples impacted by these corporate development programs have their own solutions outside of carbon markets. Holders […]
Collapse Total – taking on the big polluters
Renfield Centre 260 Bath Street, GlasgowFossil capitalism is organized on the global scale and has become effectively adapted to absorbing shocks in one country or region and recover by further drilling and destroying elsewhere. This […]
Pulling the emergency brake: System Change and Degrowth
What is the system change we need to avert climate breakdown? Should the rich countries of the Global North continue to grow, or should they de-grow? How does degrowth link […]
Black Black Oil – Film screening & Panel discussion
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, GlasgowOur economic, historical and emotional entanglement with North Sea Oil gets ever more complex as we hurtle towards climate breakdown. Is the era of North Sea oil over?
Humanity is unequal, nature is a territory to defend
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, GlasgowWe are on the move to recognize the identities and differences of human nature in unequal global space! The carbonization of the planet was and is racist and the decarbonization […]
Children’s Climate Assembly
Fred Paton 19 Carrington Street, GlasgowChildren will be most impacted by our generations failure to deal with climate and biodiversity loss. We need to empower them to speak about their views to people who will […]
Climate Justice and the Roots of Conflict
Our speakers will explore climate justice, the roots of conflict and the way forward - giving voice to frontline defenders.
Climate in Crisis – Can Ecosocialism Shift the Dial?
The session will discuss the argument that tackling climate change effectively necessitates a break with capitalism as an economic model and urgent transition to an ecosocialist alternative based on democratically […]
Sustaining Ourselves as Activists
Garnethill Multicultural Centre 21 Rose Street, Garnethill Street, GlasgowSaving the planet can feel really hard on us. This is an interactive workshop to learn the approaches used by Sustaining All Life to heal from the damage of oppression, […]
Subvertising and satire with Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives #1
Deep End 21 Nithsdale Street, GlasgowCome and learn about the satirical work of Darren Cullen, aka Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives! He will guide us through his creative process, and help you come up with your […]
Designing Revolutionary Possibilities:
GalGael 15 Fairley Street, Govan, GlasgowIn this hands-on workshop the Autonomous Design Group will show their different processes and how they utilise a living history to create art for collective liberation. You’ll learn about their […]
A Global Green New Deal and how to win it: lessons from the movement and progressive politicians.
Adelaide Place 209 Bath Street, GlasgowThere are growing grassroots movements for Green New Deals around the world. This transformative policy agenda sets out to simultaneously tackle the climate and nature crises while reversing economic inequality […]
Our kids’ planet: meet mothers standing up for global climate action.
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, GlasgowJoin us to learn what parents in Glasgow and around the world can do to engage in the climate movement - and how love can be an important part of […]
Degrowth – the system change we need for climate and social justice
What is the system change we need to avert climate breakdown? Should the rich countries of the Global North continue to grow, or should they de-grow? How does degrowth link […]
The Amazon forest, global warming and agribusiness
The Amazon forest, global warming and agribusiness:*The impacts of climate change *The increased use of pesticides *The abandonment of the rule of law in Brazil
Expanding Democratic Control: Employment, Energy and Environment
City of Glasgow College - Riverside Campus 21 Thistle St,, GlasgowThe seminar aim is to explore the potential of the so-called Energy Democracy as well as the strong link between the energy system change and the transformation toward a more […]
Exposing False Solutions: how dangerous distractions are undermining real zero in a hurry.
Renfield Centre 260 Bath Street, GlasgowOur climate commitments demand deep emissions cuts in the 2020s, but many widely discussed so-called climate solutions are actually dangerous distractions from what we actually need to do to deliver […]
Reparations, Debt and Climate Justice
In part one, organised by Global Justice Now, international experts and campaigners will share their critiques of how the global debt system prevents climate action and why debt cancellation and […]
Reflections on Just Transition(s) in North Africa
This workshop aims to advance a deeper analysis of where we are now in terms of energetic transition in North Africa. Having a better understanding of the current situation, the […]
Direct action: Dealing with confrontation.
Garnethill Multicultural Centre 21 Rose Street, Garnethill Street, GlasgowDirect action can bring us face-to-face with people who want to stop us - police, security guards or people affected by an action. This workshop is a chance to practice […]
A little taste of Capoeira!
Fred Paton 19 Carrington Street, GlasgowCapoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art which combines aspects of martial arts, dance and acrobatics with traditional African instruments and Brazilian folklore and culture into a unique art-form
OUR TIME IS NOW#1
Adelaide Place 209 Bath Street, GlasgowOur Time is Now brings together speakers from across our global movements and showcases some of the leading activists and campaigners who are in Glasgow for COP26. Join the urgent […]
Climate Change and Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era: Lessons Learned and Way forward
This session aims to focus on the inter-linkage between environment, climate change, and health in the COVID-19 era. It will serve as a means of developing the capacity of attendees, […]
Global Peasant Led Struggles – highlighting agroecology as real solution
Civic House 26 Civic Street, GlasgowMultinational corporations operating in a capitalist economy propose and coopt many false solutions to the climate crisis. In reality a lot of what they propose exacerbates not only climate change, […]
From the fairy-tale of green flying to the reality of green colonialism
The aviation industry is still planning a massive future expansion, despite the climate crisis. Promises of technological solutions and offsetting programs seek to legitimise this growth. However, despite the questionable […]
How to talk to kids (and parents!) about climate.
Finding ways to talk to our kids - and other parents - about climate change can be hard! In this session we will hear from mothers and educators about how […]
A Superhero Comic for the Climate Crisis
The basic job description of most superheroes is to ‘save the world’, but in the age of the climate crisis, who on Earth is going to ‘save the planet’? Meet […]
Food Sovereignty in Scotland
Civic House 26 Civic Street, GlasgowFood Sovereignty is a global movement operating for many decades, and with nearly 15 years since the landmark Nyelini declaration, what does this mean in the context of Scotland? We […]
Uniting hearts to heal our world
Fred Paton 19 Carrington Street, GlasgowBrahma Kumaris and partners invite you to a collective meditation event, where people from across faith and indigenous communities, and other traditions, together in solidarity will share moments of prayer, […]
Degrowth: bringing together climate justice, just transition, decoloniality, and feminism
Renfield Centre 260 Bath Street, GlasgowCan countries slash emissions fast enough to stay within 1.5 C while growing the economic activities that cause them? Everything goes to suggest that at least the rich countries of […]
Climate justice and human rights to habitat in Latin American cities
The event will make visible the demands and proposals of the women and men that live in Latin American cities in conditions of poverty, despite this they have been developing […]
Aviation: the fairy-tale of green flying and the reality of green colonialism
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, GlasgowThe aviation industry is still planning a massive future expansion, despite the climate crisis. Promises of technological solutions and offsetting programs seek to legitimise this growth. However, despite the questionable […]
Let Them Eat Cake: The Tale of Two Cities
Adelaide Place 209 Bath Street, Glasgow‘Let them eat cake’ is a theatre of the oppressed piece curated by MORE members, a Glasgow based migrant-led grassroots organisation. It depicts the tale of two cities by exploring […]
Let Them Eat Cake
Adelaide Place 209 Bath Street, Glasgow‘Let them eat cake’ is theatre of the oppressed piece curated by members of MORE, a Glasgow based migrant led grass roots organisation campaigning for the asylum seeking community access […]
Climate Fresk: IPCC Game
The Climate Fresk is an educational tool based on the conclusions of the IPCC report. In only 3 hours, 6 to 8 people work together as a team to unravel […]
Cop26 Coalition presents … Live music at the landing hub
The Landing Hub 220 Broomielaw, GlasgowYou Call That Radio has picked some of the best live acts from Scotland to get the party started over a series of gigs. Hosted by Mark McG (Girobabies / […]
Justice for the people! Strategies from the global south for the defense of communities in the face of systemic crisis.
The Make big polluters pay campaign! Latin America and the Caribbean invite the panel to learn about the struggles of local communities facing extractive policies that cover up the activities […]
U.S. Militarism, Space Tech, and the Climate Crisis – The Role of Demilitarization in Climate Justice
This panel will identify the intersections of militarism, space tech, and climate change - and how these can be challenged.
Indigenous Feminisms: Fighting at the front lines of Climate Chaos
Indigenous women are in deep, dignified struggle on the frontlines of climate and social injustice. They are also at the forefront of real solutions that are regenerative, rooted in indigenous […]