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 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 […]
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 […]
The session will discuss the environmental destruction and widespread dispossession caused by multinational corporations working with India's BJP government. Speakers will focus on the global importance of people's resistance, particularly Adivasi (indigenous) resistance, in the face of intense repression and discuss ways of building international solidarity’
To address the climate crisis, we must save the Amazon. Listen to the cry of the jungle and come to build together a path to stop the ongoing ecocide, ethnocide and genocide.
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 […]
International climate finance is central to climate justice, as is Indigenous self-determination. Learn from Indigenous Uitoto, Wampis, Ogiek and Sengwer leaders both how existing global climate finance reproduces top-down logics of domination which undermine their autonomy, and their proposals, demands and strategies for how it can be restructured to recognise and better support their self-government […]
Cities can play a catalytic role in building momentum for a global just transition away from coal, oil and gas. Join us and hear from campaigners and councillors around the world who are actively campaigning or have successfully passed resolutions for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and SAFE Cities policies to phase-out fossil fuels, and […]
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.
This session will start from current struggles by local communities, Indigenous and others, against extractive industries in Latin America and develop the arguments around what kind of alternative is possible and needed. It will relate these local struggles to the broader resistance to neoliberal policies and the governments that pursue them, and to the global […]
This event brings together farmers, environmental advocates, and international experts who are advancing natural, regenerative solutions to address the double crisis of climate change and the global pandemic. The speakers will present projects and case studies to highlight opportunities to accelerate recovery and transformation of food systems around the world.
An exploration of how we can build hope and resilience into our fight for climate justice, systemic change and into creating alternative ways of living. This will be an interactive panel discussion with visionary activists and changemakers, exploring how hope can be utilised as an empowering strategy to help us respond resiliently in these times […]
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.
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 […]
Inspirational communities and campaigners resisting coal, oil and gas in the UK right now in discussion with those who’ve already won – Join this session to hear how we can win against fossil fuels locally and nationally.
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.
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 […]
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.
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 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.
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 […]