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.
Everybody possesses inherent prejudices that we carry in our daily lives. Ableism is present at all levels of society, often left unspoken, it is the essence of othering, stating what is desirable and not desirable. It is an ugly issue to address and is often left at the bottom of the pile when doing anti-oppression […]
The voices of many activists from frontline nations, tribes, and communities are missing at this COP. At this workshop we will hear in person and online about their experiences of the climate crisis while also handling a pandemic.
No human community can preserve its life and identity if it doesn't respect its natural environment. However, in recent decades the political and economic elites in the Region have allowed the Mar Menor´s degradation. For this reason, it has had to be the citizens who mobilize to defend the rights of the Mar Menor through […]
Apartheid Israel and western extractivism build a settler colonial structure and barries to climate justice. The East-Mediterranean gas pipeline and the Jewish National Fund are examples of environmental racism. We will be defining steps to stop the JNF and discuss the joint struggle to achieve Palestinian self-dertermination and climate justice from the Jordan river to […]
Climate litigation is emerging as an increasingly successful strategy to hold governments and corporations accountable. This session will profile three iconic cases challenging the lack of accountability of governments and the fossil fuel industry for the climate crisis: the Huaraz vs RWE case in Germany, the Shell case in the Netherlands and the Paid to […]
Hear movement leaders from the Global South alongside international policy experts and local Glasgow activists reveal why COP26 is not the global “success” for people and the planet it’s being hailed as. We’ll hear from the frontlines what’s happening in the fight for climate justice and link this to what’s on the agenda at COP26, […]
In the UK we rely on 10s of thousands of migrant workers to pick and process our food. These workers are at risk of and experience exploitation on a daily basis, but are often least able to find safe representation due to being in rural areas, subject to bonded labour and intimidation. In 2020 some […]
Join transport workers from around the world for a discussion of what a worker-led transition to a green transport system looks like. From driving jeepneys to crewing deep sea vessels, transport workers are seeing the impacts of climate change and know what it takes to transform transport into a public good from the bottom up.
To avoid runaway climate breakdown, the world needs system change to cut emissions to Real Zero. But big polluters plan to continue polluting business-as-usual, using the smokescreen of ‘Net Zero’ climate targets and dubious carbon offsetting schemes that will drive land grabs, harm Indigenous Peoples and delay real action.
There is a rich legacy of working-class direct action for the climate, from Australian construction workers’ “Green Bans” movement, Lucas Aerospace workers’ plan to transition their factory, and Vestas wind turbine workers’ occupation against factory closure. How can reconnecting with this legacy inform both the fights for radical climate action and free trade unions today?
Come and learn about the satirical work of Darren Cullen, aka Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives! He will guide us through his creative process, and help you come up with your own satirical slogans and images. This session is also running at the Deep End Venue Room, Sunday 7th from 14:00-15:30.
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.
Loss and damage is an essential issue of climate justice, and a priority for UK faith groups working on climate. COP26 is not going to deliver the finance needed – so let’s get together to learn from each other and build an international faith-led campaign. People of any faith or none are welcome to join […]
After 500 miles on the road - XR Faith-bridge Camino to Cop welcome travellers from all over the world to share stories, songs, music and gesture. Performance and Workshop led by Old Crone and Fiddlers in r elaxed warm atmosphere.
This panel will bring representatives from impacted communities together to explore the climate implications for the massive buildout of plastic production along the entire supply chain, from wellhead to incinerator, and other impacts related to plastic pollution. It will also present the BFFP Brand Audit 2021, a large-scale community plastic brand audit to demand corporate […]
Shell has long been impeding any hope of a Just Transition from the fossil fuel age, making an end to Shell necessary, overdue and inevitable. But what are the pathways to a Future Beyond Shell? With this interactive workshop we aim to facilitate this discussion to delve deeper into some central questions concerning the dismantling […]
This workshop and skillshare will explore the ways in which state surveillance has been used to undermine social movements, and what we can do to protect ourselves whilst keeping our movements open and inclusive.
What is the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill? What are its implications on civil rights and, in particular, the right to protest? Why does it matter?This is a new training created by the Ella Baker School of Organising in response both to the proposed PCSC Bill, and recent years of high profile mass […]
Vulnerable communities on the front lines of the climate crisis urgently need the UNFCCC to provide real and gender just solutions for those dealing with the aftermath of disasters. Social protection strategies, and a new Loss & Damage financing facility paid for by polluters, must be advanced at COP26.
In May, a Dutch court passed a landmark ruling in the case Milieudefensie v Royal Dutch Shell. The court ordered Shell to cut its emissions by 45% in 2030. This is the first judgment in which a multinational corporation is held responsible for its contribution to climate change. During this event we will launch a […]
This panel will bring representatives from impacted communities together to explore the climate implications for the massive buildout of plastic production along the entire supply chain, from wellhead to incinerator, and other impacts related to plastic pollution. It will also present the BFFP Brand Audit 2021, a large-scale community plastic brand audit to demand corporate […]
Confronting the climate crisis and advancing a Just Transition to a regenerative economy demands an end to wars, military culture, and the violence of militarized forces and police in our communities and across the world. The U.S. military is the single largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world, and has served as the enforcer […]
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 […]
What are the specific visions and demands from Global South grassroots movements of the world we want to create? This session will feature grassroots leaders followed by an interactive fishbowl-conversation type discussion where participants will share their grassroots stories and visions of resistance and radical alternatives. This session is both digital and in-person. To register […]
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 […]
Impacts of the climate crisis for children. It is unfair that all the responsibility falls on the children of today (and tomorrow) without us adults doing something
Police surveillance seems inescapable, both online and in the streets. But is it, really?A presentation-discussion on secure organising tools and practices, with a focus on accessible, easy-to-adopt measures orgs and individuals can use to keep their organising activity private
The event will bring together, and widen access to, a diversity of voices, especially from the Global South to propose an ethical and spiritual perspective, and to inform and share real life perspectives on the human rights implications of climate change with communities seeking to devise and implement adaptation and resilience strategies. It aims to […]
The training will prepare climate advocates to speak to the media and will include everything from messaging and storytelling to interview preparation. This is a hands-on training session that will provide practical tips and skills for TV, press and radio interviews.
What are the specific visions and demands from Global South grassroots movements of the world we want to create? This session will feature grassroots leaders followed by an interactive fishbowl-conversation type discussion where participants will share their grassroots stories and visions of resistance and radical alternatives. This session will feature grassroots leaders followed by an […]