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 aviation industry is still planning a massive future expansion, despite the climate crisis. Promises of technological solutions and offsetting programs seek to legitimise this growth. However, despite the questionable effectiveness of these greenwashing strategies, they also raise concerns over intensive use of scarce global resources and severe infringements of human rights - particularly in […]
The basic job description of most superheroes is to ‘save the world’, but in the age of the climate crisis, who on Earth is going to ‘save the planet’? Meet ‘The Renegades’ - a team of fictional comic heroes that we’ll introduce in our interactive workshop about the stories, artwork, and science behind our graphic […]
Brahma Kumaris and partners invite you to a collective meditation event, where people from across faith and indigenous communities, and other traditions, together in solidarity will share moments of prayer, silence and meditation.We would encourage anyone to join in person or virtually and meditate for our sacred home, planet earth to direct their thoughts, intentions […]
The aviation industry is still planning a massive future expansion, despite the climate crisis. Promises of technological solutions and offsetting programs seek to legitimise this growth. However, despite the questionable effectiveness of these greenwashing strategies, they also raise concerns over intensive use of scarce global resources and severe infringements of human rights - particularly in […]
You Call That Radio has picked some of the best live acts from Scotland to get the party started over a series of gigs. Hosted by Mark McG (Girobabies / Jackal Trades / You Call That Radio).
Indigenous women are in deep, dignified struggle on the frontlines of climate and social injustice. They are also at the forefront of real solutions that are regenerative, rooted in indigenous cosmology, promote economies of life over profit, and are fiercely courageous.
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.
How do we win the intersectional, transformational vision we need for climate justice? Join us in the opening panel for the Just Transition Hub to discuss ownership, neoliberalism and organising to win a worker-led Global Green New Deal. TO REGISTER FOR THE FULL DAY JUST TRANSITION HUB: https://bit.ly/3iUNMI6
Since its inception, the term “Just Transition” has embodied the democratic self-determination of workers and communities. In contrast, neoliberal climate policy is built around the needs of corporations, often with the polluting companies causing this global crisis. Join the leadership of unions and allied climate movements to examine how just transition strategies developed by workers […]
Tackling the climate crisis requires an organised working-class movement around the world that can both resist austerity and push for investment in green infrastructure, jobs and a just transition. This session will hear contributions from the anti-austerity movement in the UK as well as trade unionists on the frontlines of organising resistance against the neoliberal […]
An Indigenous art and cultural response to climate and ecological breakdown. This session illuminates linkages between climate injustice and Indigenous land rights to influence the public perception of the Indigenous plight and how the global community are tied to these struggles
Last June, an International Trade Union Forum on Ecological and Social Transitions was organized in 5 languages, it gathered during 6 days more than 140 organizations from about 60 countries. At the end of this forum we agreed on a common call in view of Glasgow, we will present during this session the call and […]
As Glasgow hosts COP26, we will curate an hospitable space to hold connectivity between our everyday lives, systems change, and climate justice. Confronting this ‘united nations’ moment with the poetics of questioning - with recognising the violences of global capitalism - we invite people to hear and participate in a collective poem, and to share […]
We are now aware that highly damaging climate events are happening globally - damaging life, property and nature. Rapid advancements in science and technology, plus consumer demand, are depleting energy resources, creating high levels of pollution, and our energy demanding lifestyles are becoming unsustainable. Governments are under pressures to satisfy their electorates, sustain their economies […]
How do we change our cities? In Leeds, Glasgow and other cities we believe it’s by building citizen-led, multi-stakeholder movements to connect community activity with city-scale, strategic interventions. This workshop will provide a space for different cities to connect, learn, share and forge future relationships.'
Last June, an International Trade Union Forum on Ecological and Social Transitions gathered, during 6 days, more than 140 organizations from about 60 countries. Over 16 workshops, bringing together trade unionists from different sectors - from industry to healthcare, from transport to public services – tackle many issues and debates that cross the labour movement […]
In Chile, France, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa and elsewhere, unions are fighting neoliberal energy policies that are not only failing to bring about cleaner, more sustainable economies we need, but are actually hindering the transition. Join us to hear from unions defending green jobs, supporting national energy sovereignty, striking against […]
This session will illuminate the myriad of urban/peri-urban agroecological practices and systems that are taking place across the globe. This hopes to inspire and inform people on what could be achieved in their own cities and communities; from the practical, political and systemic changes needed. Each speaker will cover a distinct aspect of urban agriculture […]
The energy transition is one of the biggest opportunities our generation has been given. But who owns the power? Who controls the governance? And are they accountable to local citizens? This session explores municipal and communities, examples from Europe, South Africa and Latin America where local authorities and citizen groups have used the energy transition […]
A practical demonstration and discussion about how we can use flax, hemp and other materials for our clothes and much much more, and how this can help support ecological just work
Tackling the climate crisis needs a huge expansion of public sector jobs in countries like the UK - from transport, energy and food to homes, education and more. How do we get there and how do we avoid recreating the same exploitative global system? TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT OR THE FULL DAY JUST TRANSITION […]
The concept of a Global Green New Deal needs to be rooted in struggles and popular demands if it wants to unleash its potential for transformation and justice. We will try to understand how to move beyond solidarity between North and South to articulate the different scale of transformation entrenched in our struggle.
Frontline communities, mineworkers and environmental justice activists will explore the connections between their struggles for an inclusive just transition, to achieve a democratic and just renewable energy future for all. The session will focus on actions, pathways and policies to highlight the need to join in solidarity across global renewable energy supply chains at COP26 […]
This workshop aims to explore young people’s needs and visions for a just future. We will present the collected visions for a just Green Deal for Europe developed by a diverse youth across Europe and beyond, and question what concrete actions we can take together to achieve our common goals.
How do we radically transform and entangle art, activism and everyday life in the midst of the horrors of the Capitalocene? Art activists Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan’s from the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination present (with films, pictures and storytelling) their latest book that tells their version of the of the incredible tale of the […]
Five VR films transport you to the front lines of the Climate Crisis to experience the effects on the ground, and the work already underway to fight back first hand. Meet youth activists Bea, Jonathan, Daniel, Rakesh, Txai and Daniela, and travel from the Philippines to Uganda, India, Brazil and Columbia, all without leaving the […]
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.
Our panel of speakers represent two local (Glasgow/Scotland) and two international initiatives from the Global South that have made significant contributions to building sustainable communities in their local area or country. This innovative event invites both our speakers and the audience to firstly engage in an envisioning exercise which will be followed by short presentations […]
Are you interested in what a Just Transition looks like for Latin America? Join this session to hear from a coalition of organisations in Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia who have spent the last two years in dialogue with organisations and people across the countries, producing recommendations, a collaborative conflict map and visions for a […]
The world's militaries are major carbon emitters yet are not even required to report their emissions, let alone reduce them. This workshop will discuss the size of military carbon emissions, the role of the military sector in protecting the extraction economy, how they seek to capitalise on the climate crisis by offering armed 'solutions', and […]