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.
To avoid runaway climate breakdown, the world needs system change to cut emissions to Real Zero. But big polluters plan to continue polluting business-as-usual, using the smokescreen of ‘Net Zero’ climate targets and dubious carbon offsetting schemes that will drive land grabs, harm Indigenous Peoples and delay real action.
There is a rich legacy of working-class direct action for the climate, from Australian construction workers’ “Green Bans” movement, Lucas Aerospace workers’ plan to transition their factory, and Vestas wind turbine workers’ occupation against factory closure. How can reconnecting with this legacy inform both the fights for radical climate action and free trade unions today?
No human community can preserve its life and identity if it doesn't respect its natural environment. However, in recent decades the political and economic elites in the Region have allowed the Mar Menor´s degradation. For this reason, it has had to be the citizens who mobilize to defend the rights of the Mar Menor through […]
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.
Across Europe, long-term occupations and autonomous zones resisting ecologically destructive land grabs and infrastructure projects have acted as beacons of resistance for our movements. Come hear stories from the ZAD, Hambi, HS2 and other resistance camps where activists have built communities on the frontlines against climate breakdown.
Hear from coastal Indigenous peoples fighting the British Crown to regain control over their lands in unceded British Columbia alongside leading First Nations Rights & Title lawyers and Climate Justice allies speaking up for ancient ecosystems that support the last wild salmon and biodiversity hot spots in western Canada. Canadian and British Columbian governments continue […]
This session will share frontline stories of activists and hear diverse voices from around the globe on the real challenges that different communities face in the fight for a more just and sustainable future. We will host an in-person dialogue and show short videos of community groups highlighting their struggles and solutions in each part […]
Discover one of the most innovative and effective strategies for the regeneration of Brazilian forests.
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’ […]
Join speakers from Shadow World Investigations, the Boycott Turkey campaign and more, for a discussion on the UK arms trade and its environmental impact. Learn about campaigns to boycott the arms trade and what we can all do to mobilise against war and capitalism.
Discover one of the most innovative and effective strategies for the regeneration of Brazilian forests.
A new documentary from CEE Bankwatch Network, that will be screened during this session, reveals both the extent of this generous support and the relentless civil society effort tackling it in places like Slovenia and Kosovo - an effort which has also helped bring about a turning point in public finance for fossil fuels in […]
Shadow World' reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade – the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives.Directed by Johan Grimonprez (“dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y”) and in part based on Corruption Watch UK founder Andrew Feinstein’s globally acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, the […]
A film documenting, in their own words, the struggle of activists in Mexico, Honduras and Colombia.Followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker Manu Valcarce, and the interviewer, Susi Bascon, UK Director of Peace Brigades International, connecting this struggle with world-wide ecological and climate destruction
This session will explore how climate action is used by Morocco to entrench its illegal occupation and bolster its green credentials, and how the Sahrawi people are systematically excluded from international climate finance and governance mechanisms, increasing their vulnerability and inhibiting their ability to adapt. It will examine the Sahrawi vision for climate action, and […]
Scientific discoveries are integral to every serious vision of climate change mitigation, but how do we defend science from exploitation by profit motivated industrial directives. In this session we will discuss problems in the development of scientific practice for social ends and the kind of work necessary to overcome them in the context of a […]
An explosive artivist exploration of this historical South to North, COP25-COP26 Chile-Scotland connection. Cultura Planetaria was created in 2019 by Pau De Planet on the road to COP25 in Santiago to catalyse artivism from Chile and Latin America, collaborating in 2020-2021 with the UK´s COP Coalition to ramp up #MassMobilisationFromTheHeart around the first hybrid "in-person" […]
Trade unions are key players in jointly tackling the climate crisis, especially when it comes to ensuring that the decarbonization process is socially just. Only if the trade unions support the path to climate neutrality can it also be socially just! At the same time, it is important to create acceptance for the urgent need […]
In this panel discussion, actors from across Turkey's civil society will discuss issues of ecological crisis in Turkey, and the movements rising for climate justice.
Cette session se tiendra en présence d'une large diversité de participants qui s'intéressent aux questions de justice climatique. Elle mettra en exergue l’engagement et la détermination des mouvements et OSC en Afrique pour dénoncer l’injustice climatique
Cette session se tiendra en présence d'une large diversité de participants qui s'intéressent aux questions de justice climatique. Elle mettra en exergue l’engagement et la détermination des mouvements et OSC en Afrique pour dénoncer l’injustice climatique
Our 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?
We 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 needs to be done by humanity! / Estamos em movimento pelo reconhecimento das identidades e das diferenças da natureza humana no espaço global desigual! A […]
Join 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 activism! Meet mothers from Glasgow, Poland, Nigeria, Brazil and South Africa to hear about ways in which parents are saying no to new fossil fuels, […]
This 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 and local scale. What concrete means of societal transformation can they offer to shift our relationship with nature from one of harm to harmony?
Representatives 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 updates from the right-wing scene.
The 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 in the last year. How are these movements fighting for a just transition and climate action, and how can we support them?
At 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 livelihoods. This event will simulate a court trial to put the UNFCCC and the governments that are parties to the negotiation for the agreements, targets, […]
This 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 difference in their community.
Indigenous 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 against climate change.