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.
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 […]
Discover one of the most innovative and effective strategies for the regeneration of Brazilian forests.
Intensive factory farmed livestock contributes to our carbon (methane, nitrate) emissions, and cause huge environmental damage. We must find alternatives, but there are different perspectives on what those alternatives could be. Debates are difficult and sometimes divisive. This discussion will be a space for open discussion and listening from different perspectives on the role of […]
Privatised climate solutions lead to profiteering and broken promises. Public ones – led by our town and city councils, public transport systems, and publicly-owned companies - can lead a timely and just transition. How do we decarbonise our public sector and fight for a public green future? TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT OR THE FULL […]
Training Session: Learn how to build collectives in new industries and explore the tactics and strategies workers have used in previous transitions. TO REGISTER FOR THE FULL DAY JUST TRANSITION HUB: https://bit.ly/3iUNMI6
Training Session: Learn how to empower workers to take action in industries which are unionised but will need to adapt to a low-carbon world. TO REGISTER FOR THE FULL DAY JUST TRANSITION HUB: https://bit.ly/3iUNMI6
Join an informal movement space where activists will share inspiring stories from their own experiences and across the world.
A 1 hour mobilising webinar (and podcast) for campaigners who aren’t able to attend COP26 in person, sharing learnings from the conference and translating them into tangible calls to action for campaigners up and down the UK.
Anarchist thought underpins the organisational structures and theory of change of many environmental movements - yet anarchism itself is rarely named or discussed in these spaces, why is that? Join this activist-led discussion exploring the role of anarchist thought in the past, present and future of our movement.
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 […]
In this session, the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), Friends of the Earth Ghana, Akina Mama wa Afrika will each give a short overview of how they approach climate justice in their everyday work and what it means for their respective target groups. In the second part, all three organisations will offer a panel […]
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, […]
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.
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 […]
Media has failed to cover the climate crisis like the emergency it is. Join us for a Zoom panel discussion featuring international journalists covering climate change. We'll discuss what we can do better, best practices for climate journalists, and pitfalls to avoid. Hosted by the International Federation of Journalists, the world's largest journalism organization, with […]
Contributors to the 3rd Edition of Hoodwinked in the Hothouse come together to discuss the project! Hoodwinked calls out the false solutions to climate change and uplifts key characteristics of climate justice solutions and regenerative solutions rooted in principles of environmental justice rooted in: Local Indigenous and frontline community knowledge and self-determination, efforts to deepen democracy, […]
Direct action is a creative, effective way to make change - it takes many different forms and involves many different roles. This workshop will look at awesome examples of creative action, and explore your concerns and motivations to work out which ways of getting involved are right for you. We'll share practical tips for safer, […]
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.
What are the threats facing the Amazon and how are Amazonian Peoples organisingto defend their collective territories, rights and futures? Join this session to learn from and exchange with community leaders from Brazil, Peru and Guyana about their struggles to protect their forests, lands and waters against land invasions, agribusiness, illegal logging and mining, narcotics […]
The Climate Crossroads series of Human Impact Stories sheds light on the lives and work of 10 inspiring Indigenous climate leaders from the Global South who are championing resilience in the face of the climate crisis. These incredible individuals have shared stories from their communities, knowledge from their ancestors, and a glimpse into their lives […]
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 […]
During this event, participants will experience artistic encounters that uncover our relationships to each other and the world in climate change. We will also move forward together, participants and presenters, to use what emerges from these encounters to cooperatively (and vulnerably) create elixirs for disruption, release, grief, solace, and radical imagination to bring back to […]
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.
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 […]
The member countries of the UNFCCC have been indicating as their long-term commitments the neutralization of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through schemes such as net zero emissions. In practice, the examples underway point to the privatization of forests as a large part of these GHG reductions and removals will be through forest offsets, with […]
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.
Participants will experience artistic encounters that uncover our relationships to each other and the world in climate change. We will also move forward together, participants and presenters, to use what emerges from these encounters to cooperatively create elixirs for disruption, release, grief, solace, and radical imagination.
In the context of COP26, we need to take a hard look at the gap between the needs of climate justice (including keeping below the 1.5 degrees ceiling) and the current trajectory of the Scottish government. Where does independence fit into that gap?
Weaving text with movement, we are taken through a fiery past layered with Black Summer’s sounds. As a dance-theatre work from the daughter of an environmental geochemist intertwining fact with personal account, Burnt Out stands as an intimate story and a universal meditation. One Australian’s experience of our changing climate.Followed by a Q and A […]