Climate Justice and the Roots of Conflict
- Digital
Our speakers will explore climate justice, the roots of conflict and the way forward - giving voice to frontline defenders.
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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The Amazon forest, global warming and agribusiness
- Digital
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
- In-Person
The 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 socially just and equal society.
Exposing False Solutions: how dangerous distractions are undermining real zero in a hurry.
- In-Person
Our 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 rapid progress. Join leading experts and campaigners to get a wide-ranging guide to some of the most dangerous distractions from real zero in a hurry, […]
Reparations, Debt and Climate Justice
- In-Person
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 climate debt repayments are needed to achieve climate justice. Part two will consist of a panel discussion by activists from Fridays for Future Most Affected […]
Climate Change and Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era: Lessons Learned and Way forward
- Digital
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, from the health-related and non-health-related background on the effects of climate change on human health, through a reflection on the impact of climate change on […]
Let Them Eat Cake: The Tale of Two Cities
- In-Person
‘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 the intricate link between the climate crisis and structural racism with particular emphasis on the United Kingdom Hostile Environment Policy and celebrates the resilient nature […]
U.S. Militarism, Space Tech, and the Climate Crisis – The Role of Demilitarization in Climate Justice
- Digital
This panel will identify the intersections of militarism, space tech, and climate change - and how these can be challenged.
Intersectionality 101 – A Beginner’s Guide to Climate Justice
- In-Person
Introduction into the concept of intersectionality and its links to the climate crisis. Moving from theory into practice, we will explore holistically how the climate crisis intersects with other social struggles, drawing on practical exercises from our “Toolkit for Intersectional Movement Building”.
Exposing False Solutions on Land and Water: decolonizing climate action
- In-Person
This session will highlight the dangers of False Solutions to climate change. These encompass proposals such as so-called Nature-based Solutions, 30x30 and the expansion of hydroelectric dams. These are diversions from real solutions, such as burning less fossil fuel. They are unjust because they will lead to greater human rights violations, loss of land, destruction […]
Untold Climate Stories: Extractivism, Climate Colonialism and Community Alternatives (Virtual Toxic Tour)
- Digital
Join this virtual 'toxic tour' to discover stories from Indonesia, Kenya and the UK which can be woven together to tell a bigger story about the making of climate colonialism, the logics of extractivism, and the ways communities resist and find alternatives. We will share stories which have come to us through our research with […]
Towards a Just Transition: Frontline knowledge and visions for change
- In-Person
Communities and workers first and most impacted by storms, floods, fires and droughts - as well as those historically harmed by the colonial extractive economy driving climate change - have been cultivating radical, visionary and transformative pathways of change. Join us for a discussion with these frontline leaders from around the world! TO REGISTER FOR […]
Climate Colonialism and Climate Justice: the Case of Western Sahara
- In-Person
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 […]
Australian companies and the extractivist response to the climate crisis
- Digital
Australia is one of the main mining countries in the world, holding 40% of the total market share and is rapidly gearing up to take advantage of the mineral profits to be made from the race to net zero, with industry, economic and political support from the Federal Government. Voices from concerned frontline communities in […]
Climate Justice on Turtle Island: Truth and Reconciliation for the Land and Resilience of Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledges
- In-Person
Indigenous peoples protect 80% of the earth’s biodiversity, despite catastrophic displacement and forced assimilation while facing centuries of imperialism vis-a-vis settler colonialism. Panelists will discuss their lived experiences as Indigenous people on Turtle Island (North America), current efforts to combat the climate crisis, climate resilience frameworks, and challenges posed by settler-colonialism, extractive industries, capitalism, and […]
Ending Fossil Fuels 101: Politics and Power
- In-Person
Ending fossil fuels means ending the industry's grip over our political system, as well as removing their power to sue governments for billions for leaving coal, oil and gas in the ground. Come and hear from the Fossil Free Politics campaign on how we go about it, with a special section on the climate-wrecking Energy […]
Growing up amid climate injustice: Youth MAPA stories
- In-Person
As youth from different countries in the most affected areas, we want to tell the world about our stories growing up facing the climate crisis and injustice. Through this creative storytelling session, we aim to showcase our different cultures and lifestyles that have been erased through colonization -- these cultures and lifestyles that already live […]
A Grassroots Feminist Path to Climate Justice
- In-Person
This is a critical moment for climate action, and time to act urgently to confront the global climate crisis. All over the world women and gender-oppressed leaders are advancing feminist analysis from the grassroots, to build alternative visions for a feminist and regenerative economy. Climate breakdown disproportionately impacts women, girls, gender non-conforming and LGBTIQ people […]
Film screening: Subsidising the Climate Crisis
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 […]
Urgency of Climate Just Actions: Voices from the Most Impacted
- In-Person
Join representatives from some of the most impacted communities- small scale artisanal fishworkers, workers from the informal sectors of economy, people seeing the severe impacts on mountain communities will bring up this urgency through their recent experiences. Speakers will also thread these together with a broader picture. Given stable netconnections, some communities, representatives from south […]
Shadow World: film screening and discussion with Andrew Feinstein
- In-Person
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 […]
Sisters Uncut police intervention training
- In-Person
Sisters Uncut are the direct action feminist group who led the vigil for Sarah Everard at Clapham Common in March 2021. They are launching a nationwide network of CopWatch groups, empowering communities to stand together and protect each other from police violence. "The Police don’t keep us safe: we keep us safe. We will intervene […]
Science & activism: acting with the face of evidence
- Digital
Traditionally, climate scientists, with a few notable exceptions, have spoken in public only about their scientific evidence on climate change rather than what we should do about it. How can we encourage more scientists to join other engaged citizens and speak out in the face of perceived risks to their careers and funding?
How Our Voices are Silenced
- In-Person
This event will delve into the different ways in which political and corporate oppression have silenced voices of communities around the world. Our panelists will speak on their experience and knowledge of how the systems that govern us have deliberately ignored science and kept working class people, BIPOC communities, and youth from taking part in […]
Sharing Untold Climate Stories: Extractivism, Climate Colonialism and Community Alternatives (A Story Weaving Workshop)
- In-Person
We invite you to join us in a guided workshop to share and connect places, stories and experiences which are often overlooked in maintsream ideas of of 'climate change' or 'climate action'. Workshop participants will share, listen to and connect stories of extractivism, climate colonialism and everyday resistance. How do these stories and experiences shed […]
Girls for Future
- In-Person
This event will host the screening of “Girls for Future”, about four young girls, aged between 11 and 14 years, representing a new resilient generation born in times of the climate crisis. They are all directly affected by climate change, and their cases expose how plastic pollution, climate change, and all other interrelated environmental crises […]
People’s Rally: This global economy is killing us: how the climate crisis is a crisis of capitalism – and what we do about it
- In-Person
Climate change is being driven by the rules of corporate dominated global economy: global trade rules, financial institutions, and the debt system. This session will look at how these systems work and why we can’t hope to deal with climate change without a transformation of our economy. Our speakers will outline what an international economy, […]
The Independent COP: Democracy, Self-Determination and Climate Justice”
- In-Person
While there will be at least 197 parties represented at this year’s COP, many nations and communities will be denied a seat at the table as a result of their status as non-independent or self-governing polities. By bringing representatives of some of these groups to Glasgow, this event will seek to correct this democratic deficit […]
What about the workers? Making workplaces safe for workers and the environment
- Digital
The round table discussion will look at the connected issues of toxics use reduction, air pollution inside and outside of the workplace, workplace adaptation to address climate change and just transition for working people.
Zovu Dialogue- community voices on climate & social justice
- In-Person
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 […]