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.
The session will discuss the environmental destruction and widespread dispossession caused by multinational corporations working with India's BJP government. Speakers will focus on the global importance of people's resistance, particularly Adivasi (indigenous) resistance, in the face of intense repression and discuss ways of building international solidarity’
To address the climate crisis, we must save the Amazon. Listen to the cry of the jungle and come to build together a path to stop the ongoing ecocide, ethnocide and genocide.
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 the complexities of our climate system and understand the causes and consequences of its disruption.
Preview screening of Finite: the Climate of Change, a feature documentary which tells the dramatic inside story of communities in the UK and Germany taking direct action to defend their homes, nature and the climate from the destruction of opencast coal mining. Followed by a panel discussion between frontline communities resisting fossil fuel extraction from […]
Biofuelwatch, Colectivo VientoSur, FASE and Global Forest Coalition seek to organize an online panel discussion with activists from frontline communities that will first discuss and challenge some of the false solutions being proposed and promoted at COP26. The discussion will address why these false solutions are to address the climate crisis worse and it will […]
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 […]
COP26 is another yearly ritual of governments discussing the climate issues and now limiting the talks to the review of national communications and emission inventories submitted by parties.Global call for deep cuts in emissions, such as Oilwatch International’s call Annex O proposal are still being met with indifference. The illusion of the silver bullet called […]
There are currently over a dozen national climate jobs campaigns around the world, as well as further green new deal proposals. The articulation between the climate justice movement and the labour movement is, at this moment, still in its early steps and the pandemic has not promoted any sort of coalescence. The Corona Crisis is […]
Cities can play a catalytic role in building momentum for a global just transition away from coal, oil and gas. Join us and hear from campaigners and councillors around the world who are actively campaigning or have successfully passed resolutions for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and SAFE Cities policies to phase-out fossil fuels, and […]
Panel to highlight the resistance process facing climate change, taking into account that it directly affects the living conditions for native peoples and afro-descendant communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The activity will be divided in two moments: one in which guests will talk about their experience and a short Q&A session.
A public workshop for anyone interested in the work of frontline environmental defenders, organised by campaign group Not1More, who support environmental defenders at risk of persecution. Participants will discuss the relationship between direct action and political agreements and disseminate their findings through hand-printed flyers.
In this workshop, participants will use creative and embodied techniques (e.g. Theatre of the Oppressed, creative writing) to explore narratives they hold about climate-just futures. The group will explore commonalities and differences between visions, and delve into how to make them come alive honoring multiplicity and shared purpose.
Join an informal movement space where activists will share inspiring stories from their own experiences and across the world.
This session will start from current struggles by local communities, Indigenous and others, against extractive industries in Latin America and develop the arguments around what kind of alternative is possible and needed. It will relate these local struggles to the broader resistance to neoliberal policies and the governments that pursue them, and to the global […]
What do trade unions & the climate justice movement have in common? How can workers better organise for climate justice? How can climate activists fight for the protection of workers’ rights? Find out in this interactive session looking at the history of union-based organising, what a ‘just transition’ looks like and how to build power […]
This event brings together farmers, environmental advocates, and international experts who are advancing natural, regenerative solutions to address the double crisis of climate change and the global pandemic. The speakers will present projects and case studies to highlight opportunities to accelerate recovery and transformation of food systems around the world.
Next year, we will organize the Great Climate Justice Caravan in dozens of countries around the world, for a period of up to a month of travels through territories, massive polluting infrastructures and communities already in the midst of the climate crisis. Each country will define its most relevant issues and together, in different contexts […]
An exploration of how we can build hope and resilience into our fight for climate justice, systemic change and into creating alternative ways of living. This will be an interactive panel discussion with visionary activists and changemakers, exploring how hope can be utilised as an empowering strategy to help us respond resiliently in these times […]
Fossil fuel projects the world over are connected by a flow of finance that brings destruction to indigenous land and people but wealth to the already wealthy. It is dirty fossil finance. This session will connect indigenous peoples at the frontlines of the fight against these fossil fuel giants and their investors with indigenous people […]
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, […]
Queremos reunir a un conjunto de organizaciones y redes internacionales de justicia climática, para revisar la efectividad, los logros y las deficiencias de las diferentes estrategias y enfoques que han desarrollado las redes de justicia climática, incluyendo las resistencias, las movilizaciones y la incidencia política en diferentes niveles (local-territorios, nacional-gobiernos, global-CMNUCC), las articulaciones interseccionales y […]
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 […]
Colin Macleod was a modern-day land raider who gave a voice to the people of Pollok in the 90s. The M77 was being driven through their park, cutting the local community off from their only green space. He started by staying up a tree for nine days to grab press attention. This grew into a […]
The training will prepare climate advocates to speak to the media and will include everything from messaging and storytelling to interview preparation. This is a hands-on training session that will provide practical tips and skills for TV, press and radio interviews.
Panel for a centralized discussion on air quality in Latin America highlighting the main challenges and issues related to the climate crisis. It is intended to discuss the monitoring of air quality in the Brazilian context, the impacts of pollution on the daily lives of citizens, with special consideration for the social, territorial, income and […]
Looking to analyse five cases from Latin American countries and how the governments are failing to meet their climate commitments, fostering extractive policies that damage the environment and territories, without taking into account the impacts of climate change, in post-pandemic time, the urgency of reorienting the economy in order to confront the climate crisis.
Over 1.5 million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean is under deep sea mining exploration leasehold. Promoted by the deep sea miner as an answer to the ‘green’ transition and climate action, it is poised to be the largest mining operation in history. But what is deep sea mining? Has it started yet? Can mining […]
Inspirational communities and campaigners resisting coal, oil and gas in the UK right now in discussion with those who’ve already won – Join this session to hear how we can win against fossil fuels locally and nationally.
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 […]
The Glasgow Diet” (trailer - https://vimeo.com/370038341) is Zev Robinson’s engaging, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant 37 minute documentary about the evolution of food from the city’s industrial past through the post industrial decline and present day resurgence. Interviewees share memories of homemade soups their mothers and grandmothers once made and how that disappeared with the advent […]