People's Summit
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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.

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Life in the Middle. A feminist vision from Abya Yala to climate collapse / La Vida en el Centro. Una mirada feminista desde Abya Yala frente al colapso climático

  • Digital

Incorporar una mirada feminista desde Abya Yala frente al colapso climático y sus impactos en los cuerpos y vidas de las mujeres. Y visibilizar la importancia de la economía feminista, los cuidados y soberanía alimentaria como propuestas y alternativas de acción reales y transformadoras al sistema capitalista, patriarcal y colonial.

Climate Walls – How the Militarisation of Borders Drives Injustice and What We Can Do About It

  • Digital

As climate change exacerbates displacement, the border industry is cashing in on anxiety about the future and states are investing billions in military, surveillance, and control systems. Border control as a climate adaptation strategy doesn’t work, causes unquantifiable human suffering, and draws investment away from real climate action - join us and help hold the […]

La Vida en el Centro. Una mirada feminista desde Abya Yala frente al colapso climático

  • Digital

Incorporar una mirada feminista desde Abya Yala frente al colapso climático y sus impactos en los cuerpos y vidas de las mujeres. Y visibilizar la importancia de la economía feminista, los cuidados y soberanía alimentaria como propuestas y alternativas de acción reales y transformadoras al sistema capitalista, patriarcal y colonial.

CANCELLED: Covid to Climate, What Role for Public Services

  • In-Person
Adelaide Place 209 Bath StreetGlasgow,

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled due to illness and visa issues. The Covid crisis created new awareness of the importance of strong public services and responsive governments. How to build on this awareness to deal with the climate crisis.

Energy transition and mining : risks and opportunities for Sub-Saharan African countries

  • Digital

Join our debate on the social and environmental risks associated with accelerated mining activity, and on the approaches that would make the energy transition a real lever for growth and development in mineral-rich Sub-Saharan African countries. This session will gather experts from different backgrounds (resource governance, environment, human rights) bringing various perspectives on the issue.

Illustration of a woman in a wheelchair on a train platform, with the text 'mind the gap' visible on the platform and a gap between her and the train.

Reclaiming Justice: Disability, The Blind Spot in Climate Activism

  • In-Person
Fred Paton 19 Carrington StreetGlasgow,

Everybody possesses inherent prejudices that we carry in our daily lives. Ableism is present at all levels of society, often left unspoken, it is the essence of othering, stating what is desirable and not desirable. It is an ugly issue to address and is often left at the bottom of the pile when doing anti-oppression […]

How Apartheid Israel and the Climate Crisis are Intertwined

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

Apartheid Israel and western extractivism build a settler colonial structure and barries to climate justice. The East-Mediterranean gas pipeline and the Jewish National Fund are examples of environmental racism. We will be defining steps to stop the JNF and discuss the joint struggle to achieve Palestinian self-dertermination and climate justice from the Jordan river to […]

Solidarity and organising with Migrant workers in the food system

  • In-Person
Civic House 26 Civic StreetGlasgow,

In the UK we rely on 10s of thousands of migrant workers to pick and process our food. These workers are at risk of and experience exploitation on a daily basis, but are often least able to find safe representation due to being in rural areas, subject to bonded labour and intimidation. In 2020 some […]

The Net-Zero Smokescreen: Why we need system change to keep it in the ground

  • In-Person
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose StreetGlasgow,

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.

Plastic Fuels the Climate Crisis

  • Digital

This panel will bring representatives from impacted communities together to explore the climate implications for the massive buildout of plastic production along the entire supply chain, from wellhead to incinerator, and other impacts related to plastic pollution. It will also present the BFFP Brand Audit 2021, a large-scale community plastic brand audit to demand corporate […]

Climate-induced loss & damage: Impacts and climate justice solutions at COP26

  • In-Person
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose StreetGlasgow,

Vulnerable communities on the front lines of the climate crisis urgently need the UNFCCC to provide real and gender just solutions for those dealing with the aftermath of disasters. Social protection strategies, and a new Loss & Damage financing facility paid for by polluters, must be advanced at COP26.

Plastic Fuels the Climate Crisis

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

This panel will bring representatives from impacted communities together to explore the climate implications for the massive buildout of plastic production along the entire supply chain, from wellhead to incinerator, and other impacts related to plastic pollution. It will also present the BFFP Brand Audit 2021, a large-scale community plastic brand audit to demand corporate […]

Questioning the Paris Agreement in Feminist Pathways towards a Just and Equitable Transition

  • Digital

This interactive session aims to bring the analysis and stories of resistance and resilience of grassroots women leaders and feminist advocates from across regions, struggles and generations who are directly confronting the human rights impacts as well as the structural drivers of the climate crisis and other intersecting crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The speakers […]

Uprooting the Drivers of Deforestation & Climate Change: frontline Visions and Pathways to a Transformative World

  • Digital

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 […]

Post Fossil Civilization

  • In-Person
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose StreetGlasgow,

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 […]

No Climate Justice without Climate Jobs

  • In-Person
Albany Centre 44 Ashley StreetGlasgow,

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 […]

Climate Justice is racial justice

  • Digital

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.

Frontline Truths – Voices of Resistance

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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 […]

Air Quality in Latin America with regards to central aspects of the Climate Crisis

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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 […]

How are we doing with climate ambition? Analysis and reflections from Latin America

  • Digital

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.

Pacific Talanoa: deep sea mining is no answer to the climate crisis

  • Digital

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 […]

The Glasgow Diet

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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 […]

Resisting language loss and the ecological crisis

  • In-Person
Adelaide Place 209 Bath StreetGlasgow,

According to UNESCO a language is lost every ten days - the same forces driving ecological collapse are destroying cultures and languages around the world. Moreover, many of the world’s linguistic minorities, including Scotland’s Gaels will be the first to suffer the physical and cultural displacement of ecological collapse. Come learn about the intersections of […]

Keep It In The Ground: No More Fossil Fuel Exploration in the Mediterranean

  • In-Person
GalGael 15 Fairley Street, GovanGlasgow,

Don't Dig International Campaign is an umbrella of 70 ecological organizations of all around world, mostly from Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. In this panel, we would like to discuss the potential ecological and societal consequences of the fossil fuel exploration in the Mediterranean sea.

Your Story Our Future: Climate-Nature Youth Storytelling Exhibition

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

A guided showcase of the stories received under Youth4Nature’s Campaign “Your Story Our Future” and on our Glocal Climate-Nature Storymap, including the urgent messages, communities,-centred action & solution-oriented work on climate and biodiversity from youth across the world.

About the continuity of the colonial heritage: the impact of the British mining company Brazil Iron in the state of Bahia.

  • Digital

This session will explain how the mining sector still operates throughout colonial power relations subjugating the quilombolas communities in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The steel open mine exploited by the british company Brazil Iron pollutes and destroys water, land and air and threatens those villagers opposing its presence with the support of public authorities, […]

50 questions about mega mining: a pedagogical tool.

  • Digital

We will share the process and the result of our pedagogical material that seeks to disseminate information about mega mining in Haiti and in communities in Latin America.

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