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.
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 […]
This event will investigate the politics of land, food and power in the world today. Analysing the struggles for food sovereignty, climate resilience, equality, justice and ecological living in the context of who controls the land; from the fight for health, food-justice and housing in Scotland, to the decolonial and anti-imperialist land struggles around the […]
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled due to illness and visa issues. The Covid crisis created new awareness of the importance of strong public services and responsive governments. How to build on this awareness to deal with the climate crisis.
This session will introduce the Fossil Free Zones campaign. We will outline the campaign plan and host a dialogue with participants on how people can register Fossil Free Zones or work towards establishing them. Register to join online: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqf-2hqDgpGtZ4l6YhDXqYUygL_NkaJ9wk
Mother Earth Project™, MEP, is a people empowerment campaign, NOW IN 79 COUNTRIES, that encourages communities worldwide to commit to sustainable actions and Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, filled with daily acts of saving and protecting our planet. Using artwork as the catalyst for bringing people together, MEP encourages schools, communities, and climate strikers to create […]
Indigenous and environmental justice communities on the frontlines of climate chaos have been resisting a plethora of false, corporate schemes and neoliberal climate policies that continue to threaten their lives, lands and self-determined pathways to climate justice. This participatory workshop and strategy session will center the voices, experiences and collaborative strategies of frontline communities resisting […]
Join NEON to learn how to write powerful messages that: Advocate for the voices of communities most impacted to be centred in decision making. Push for real solutions that match the scale of the problem. Build the belief that change is possible.
The Paris Agreement does not mention the world coal, oil or gas once which is why momentum is building globally for a complementary international mechanism to manage a global just transition. Join this event to hear more about the bold new campaign for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Join our debate on the social and environmental risks associated with accelerated mining activity, and on the approaches that would make the energy transition a real lever for growth and development in mineral-rich Sub-Saharan African countries. This session will gather experts from different backgrounds (resource governance, environment, human rights) bringing various perspectives on the issue.
An event on the theme of Rights of Nature - with a short video, speakers, breakout rooms, music and takeaway actions for those attending.
Join a conversation about the role of Degrowth as a political framework and strategy for combatting the intersecting crises of our modern age.