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.
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 […]
The RESISters’ Dialogue brings the voices of the community and women affected by different projects and investments, posed as solutions to climate change, to speak about their experiences in the multiple crises - natural resources, Covid and climate, their acts of resistance and their call for just solutions. The Dialogue will also have voices of […]
The session will cover research being conducted by Save the Tigris on the potential social, cultural, and environmental impacts of the construction of the Makhoul Dam in Iraq and the perspectives of experts, policymakers, and locals.
The rapid development of climate geoengineering -- defined as large-scale technological manipulation of the Earth's systems -- is a next-level false solution to the climate crisis that largely unfolds under the radar of the broader international climate movement. The struggle against geoengineering is part and parcel of the struggle for addressing the root causes of […]
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Empowering Meaningful Change for a Lower Carbon Life - Exploring Personal and Lifetime Experiential Values in day to day choices. An activity requesting visitors to evaluate their everyday choices and lifetime choices in terms of sustainability. Through answering the question: 'How can you contribute to a healthier balance for yourself, for your community and for […]
We need a radical Global Green New Deal framework to deliver a transformation that tackles climate, inequality and uproots the systems of oppression. Join movements, scientists, academics to discuss the 4 key political tests and policy demands needed. And how we build power from below and above to turn this moment of crisis into a […]
Join Mayors, trade union leaders, public transport workers and campaigners from around the world to build action for an urgent modal shift to public transport. Mobilise for public transport as a public good linking economic, social, gender and climate justice.
The Language of Sound: Eco-Sounds for Climate Influence – An accessible Audio Workshop Collaboratively create a real time audio piece and learn how amplifying and generating noise can contribute towards the momentum of modern-day climate activism. Combining sounds from the natural world with political broadcast and live musical composition we will evoke a visceral response […]
A portrait series from Huaraz in the Peruvian Andes where impacts of the climate crisis, environmental fears and traumas are real-life experiences.
Before we can understand how language is relevant to effective climate action, we need to ask ourselves how language is relevant to our thinking and acting in general. Therefore, the first part of the workshop will focus on the psycho-linguistic basis of framing. We will discover what framing is and how it is an unconscious […]
Join La Via Campesina, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Indigenous Environmental Network, Friends of the Earth International, and other popular movement allies in a movement convergence space led by grassroots organizers. This workshop will explore the core principles behind the model of Just Transition and deepen discussion already developing around what this system change approach […]
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.
The world's money fuels the climate crisis. But all over the world, people are fighting back - join this session to see how movements are challenging different types of financing and how you can too.
Virginia Alfaro, Johnny Azpilicueta, Juan Bordera, Sergi Caballero, Pilar De Lorenzo, Juan Del Río, Barbara Di Giacinto, Héctor Escudero Leiva, Esteban Goode, Karen Killeen, Sergitz Moreno, Maria Prieto, Candida Shinn, Verónica Van Horenbeke, Lorens Witty
In this panel we will speak about the feminist critique of false solutions to climate change, how feminist economics confronts extractive capitalism, how women and gender diverse peoples sustain and reproduce human and non-human life, and what feminist climate justice looks like.
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.
Everyone has their own ideas about what climate justice is, but also many gaps in our own constructs. Through improvisation, we will together aim to generate ideas that help us individually and collectively better understand what makes climate action just.. and maybe even come up with some insights into how to get there.
Around the world, zero waste implementation is showing that this is a waste management approach with the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions with its proven ability to divert as much as 85% of all waste from disposal and openly call for upstream solutions to the other 15%. This panel will consist of waste pickers […]
This participatory workshop is based on the Indigenous Environmental Network carbon pricing training series. The interactive workshop shared with hundreds of frontline communities breaks down the jargon and false solutions in the Paris Agreement. All are welcome to come and learn, share and arm yourself with knowledge for the week of action ahead!
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, […]
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. Many people involved in socially engaged work – environmental activism, human rights defenders, and political organising – encounter situations which can be traumatising. Existing within the conditions of post colonial patriarchal capitalism also impacts us in many different ways, depending on our identities and experiences. Learning to work with […]
Come hear testimonies and discussion from grassroots environmental activists from across Africa, as they share footage and experiences of direct action across Africa on the Global Day of Action.
Drawing on grassroots experiences from Brazil, Peru and Bolivia this panel will explore the destructive reality of the energy sector in Latin America and open a discussion on avenues to a just and popular transition that articulates social movements and creates space South-South and South-North dialogue.
Kurdistan is simultaneously the frontline of ecological destruction as a weapon of war, and also the place where the principles of social ecology — a holistic view of society and the environment — are practiced, providing hope and an example of rebuilding a new world in the shell of the old. In this session, our […]
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.
Join Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! placard making session and discussion to build on the conversations following their panel of the same name (on Monday in Glasgow Film Theatre).
Drawing on grassroots experiences from Brazil, Peru and Bolivia this panel will explore the destructive reality of the energy sector in Latin America and open a discussion on avenues to a just and popular transition that articulates social movements and creates space South-South and South-North dialogue.
The Meeting is an opportunity for producers of socio-environmental podcasts to have contact with other podcasts around the world, enabling the creation of partnerships, aimed at sharing knowledge and skills, expanding the reach of listeners, and discussing the challenges in producing content and in the engagement of society in the podcasts' places of origin.
When we read reports about the advancement of renewable energies across the world and in Latin America, some questions remain open in relation to climate justice, especially when we talk about themes related to the world of work and the rights of the communities. In this debate, we will look to bring contributions of ongoing […]