People's Summit
For Climate
Justice
7-10 Nov
While world leaders meet to discuss our future at COP26, we'll be building power for system change together. Bringing together the climate justice movement to discuss, learn and strategise for system change. Join in online from anywhere in the world, or in-person in Glasgow.
New documentary screening: Cuba’s Life Task: combatting climate changeAs a small Caribbean island, Cuba is disproportionately affected by climate change through extreme weather events and rising sea levels. This documentary shows how Cuba is using environmental science, natural solutions and community participation in its 100-year state plan for adaptation and mitigation, known as ‘Tarea Vida’ […]
Intensive factory farmed livestock contributes to our carbon (methane, nitrate) emissions, and cause huge environmental damage. We must find alternatives, but there are different perspectives on what those alternatives could be. Debates are difficult and sometimes divisive. This discussion will be a space for open discussion and listening from different perspectives on the role of […]
Join an informal movement space where activists will share inspiring stories from their own experiences and across the world.
In this session, the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), Friends of the Earth Ghana, Akina Mama wa Afrika will each give a short overview of how they approach climate justice in their everyday work and what it means for their respective target groups. In the second part, all three organisations will offer a panel […]
The member countries of the UNFCCC have been indicating as their long-term commitments the neutralization of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through schemes such as net zero emissions. In practice, the examples underway point to the privatization of forests as a large part of these GHG reductions and removals will be through forest offsets, with […]
In the context of COP26, we need to take a hard look at the gap between the needs of climate justice (including keeping below the 1.5 degrees ceiling) and the current trajectory of the Scottish government. Where does independence fit into that gap?
Weaving text with movement, we are taken through a fiery past layered with Black Summer’s sounds. As a dance-theatre work from the daughter of an environmental geochemist intertwining fact with personal account, Burnt Out stands as an intimate story and a universal meditation. One Australian’s experience of our changing climate.Followed by a Q and A […]
Indigenous and environmental justice communities on the frontlines of climate chaos have been resisting a plethora of false, corporate schemes and neoliberal climate policies that continue to threaten their lives, lands and self-determined pathways to climate justice. This participatory workshop and strategy session will center the voices, experiences and collaborative strategies of frontline communities resisting […]
The Paris Agreement does not mention the world coal, oil or gas once which is why momentum is building globally for a complementary international mechanism to manage a global just transition. Join this event to hear more about the bold new campaign for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Our 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 and much needed global debate on the climate justice action that’s required to tackle the multiple crises we face.
Loss and damage is an essential issue of climate justice, and a priority for UK faith groups working on climate. COP26 is not going to deliver the finance needed – so let’s get together to learn from each other and build an international faith-led campaign. People of any faith or none are welcome to join […]
After 500 miles on the road - XR Faith-bridge Camino to Cop welcome travellers from all over the world to share stories, songs, music and gesture. Performance and Workshop led by Old Crone and Fiddlers in r elaxed warm atmosphere.
Confronting the climate crisis and advancing a Just Transition to a regenerative economy demands an end to wars, military culture, and the violence of militarized forces and police in our communities and across the world. The U.S. military is the single largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world, and has served as the enforcer […]
We need a radical Global Green New Deal framework to deliver a transformation that tackles climate, inequality and uproots the systems of oppression. Join movements, scientists, academics to discuss the 4 key political tests and policy demands needed. And how we build power from below and above to turn this moment of crisis into a […]
What are the specific visions and demands from Global South grassroots movements of the world we want to create? This session will feature grassroots leaders followed by an interactive fishbowl-conversation type discussion where participants will share their grassroots stories and visions of resistance and radical alternatives. This session is both digital and in-person. To register […]
The event will bring together, and widen access to, a diversity of voices, especially from the Global South to propose an ethical and spiritual perspective, and to inform and share real life perspectives on the human rights implications of climate change with communities seeking to devise and implement adaptation and resilience strategies. It aims to […]
What are the specific visions and demands from Global South grassroots movements of the world we want to create? This session will feature grassroots leaders followed by an interactive fishbowl-conversation type discussion where participants will share their grassroots stories and visions of resistance and radical alternatives. This session will feature grassroots leaders followed by an […]
International climate finance is central to climate justice, as is Indigenous self-determination. Learn from Indigenous Uitoto, Wampis, Ogiek and Sengwer leaders both how existing global climate finance reproduces top-down logics of domination which undermine their autonomy, and their proposals, demands and strategies for how it can be restructured to recognise and better support their self-government […]
Join an informal movement space where activists will share inspiring stories from their own experiences and across the world.
A talk by Chief Ninawa Huni Kui, followed by an exploration beyond the usual framing and solutionist conversations relating to the current multiplicity of crisis. Through the use of social cartographies and depth conversations we will examine how modernity shapes our discernment, reasoning, and investments, thus impairing our capacity to perceive, to relate, to respond, […]
A hands on interactive talk and workshop celebrating resilience and sustainability in the performing arts by embedding ecological system thinking at the centre of the creative process. With a pledge at its heart: Ecostage is a public act of commitment that not only provides individuals with a personal framework for a greener practice but also […]
Uproot the cis-tem' is a two-part hybrid workshop which posits that the climate crisis cannot be understood through binary thinking. In its first half, two speakers will unpack the term 'queer ecology', discussing how the dominant systems of heteronormativity, cisnormativity, colonialism, and capitalism work to distance us from our environment. Its second half will consist […]
We need a radical Global Green New Deal framework to deliver a transformation that tackles climate, inequality and uproots the systems of oppression. Join movements, scientists, academics to discuss the 4 key political tests and policy demands needed. And how we build power from below and above to turn this moment of crisis into a […]
Join Mayors, trade union leaders, public transport workers and campaigners from around the world to build action for an urgent modal shift to public transport. Mobilise for public transport as a public good linking economic, social, gender and climate justice.
A portrait series from Huaraz in the Peruvian Andes where impacts of the climate crisis, environmental fears and traumas are real-life experiences.
Everyone has their own ideas about what climate justice is, but also many gaps in our own constructs. Through improvisation, we will together aim to generate ideas that help us individually and collectively better understand what makes climate action just.. and maybe even come up with some insights into how to get there.
Drawing on grassroots experiences from Brazil, Peru and Bolivia this panel will explore the destructive reality of the energy sector in Latin America and open a discussion on avenues to a just and popular transition that articulates social movements and creates space South-South and South-North dialogue.
Kurdistan is simultaneously the frontline of ecological destruction as a weapon of war, and also the place where the principles of social ecology — a holistic view of society and the environment — are practiced, providing hope and an example of rebuilding a new world in the shell of the old. In this session, our […]
Drawing on grassroots experiences from Brazil, Peru and Bolivia this panel will explore the destructive reality of the energy sector in Latin America and open a discussion on avenues to a just and popular transition that articulates social movements and creates space South-South and South-North dialogue.
The Meeting is an opportunity for producers of socio-environmental podcasts to have contact with other podcasts around the world, enabling the creation of partnerships, aimed at sharing knowledge and skills, expanding the reach of listeners, and discussing the challenges in producing content and in the engagement of society in the podcasts' places of origin.