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.

You do not need to register for a ticket or a COVID registration wristband at the Sauchiehall Street hub for events at Deep End, GalGael and Landing Hub. You will still need to show a negative lateral flow test confirmation on entrance to get a wristband and venue capacity still apply.

Your Story Our Future: Climate-Nature Youth Storytelling Exhibition

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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.

Climate Justice Convergence: Building Grassroots Alliances for Just Transitions

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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 […]

The Glasgow Diet

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

The Glasgow Diet” (trailer - https://vimeo.com/370038341) is Zev Robinson’s engaging, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant 37 minute documentary about the evolution of food from the city’s industrial past through the post industrial decline and present day resurgence. Interviewees share memories of homemade soups their mothers and grandmothers once made and how that disappeared with the advent […]

Frontline Truths – Voices of Resistance

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

Fossil fuel projects the world over are connected by a flow of finance that brings destruction to indigenous land and people but wealth to the already wealthy. It is dirty fossil finance. This session will connect indigenous peoples at the frontlines of the fight against these fossil fuel giants and their investors with indigenous people […]

Holistic sustainability for the Performing Arts – Ecostage launch

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

A hands on interactive talk and workshop celebrating resilience and sustainability in the performing arts by embedding ecological system thinking at the centre of the creative process. With a pledge at its heart: Ecostage is a public act of commitment that not only provides individuals with a personal framework for a greener practice but also […]

Air Quality in Latin America with regards to central aspects of the Climate Crisis

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

Panel for a centralized discussion on air quality in Latin America highlighting the main challenges and issues related to the climate crisis. It is intended to discuss the monitoring of air quality in the Brazilian context, the impacts of pollution on the daily lives of citizens, with special consideration for the social, territorial, income and […]

Tales of Transformation – Working with Narratives for Climate-just Futures

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

In this workshop, participants will use creative and embodied techniques (e.g. Theatre of the Oppressed, creative writing) to explore narratives they hold about climate-just futures. The group will explore commonalities and differences between visions, and delve into how to make them come alive honoring multiplicity and shared purpose.

Plastic Fuels the Climate Crisis

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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 […]

Basic broadcast media for climate activists 2

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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.

How Apartheid Israel and the Climate Crisis are Intertwined

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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 […]

Polluters Out, People In- Real Zero, Real Solutions, Right Now

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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, […]

Camino to Cop: ‘Walk The Talk’ welcome everyone to ‘Talk the Walk’

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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.

People’s Rally: This global economy is killing us: how the climate crisis is a crisis of capitalism – and what we do about it

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

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, […]

Aviation: the fairy-tale of green flying and the reality of green colonialism

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

The aviation industry is still planning a massive future expansion, despite the climate crisis. Promises of technological solutions and offsetting programs seek to legitimise this growth. However, despite the questionable effectiveness of these greenwashing strategies, they also raise concerns over intensive use of scarce global resources and severe infringements of human rights - particularly in […]

Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Nature-Based Solutions

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

Corporations are pushing Nature-Based Solutions as a solution to the climate crisis, but Indigenous Peoples impacted by these corporate development programs have their own solutions outside of carbon markets. Holders of Indigneous Traditional Knowledge will come together to share their stories, knowledges and work towards of Indigenous Just Transition

How to have ‘Transformative Conversations’

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

We live in an ever more divided society, with growing narratives of division and blame.. Yet we won’t change this culture simply by shouting louder. We need to develop the skills to listen, and disagree, well. This session looks at the reasons why myth-busting and fact-checking are so seldom successful at changing people’s minds, and […]

Film + Q&A: Immuto (Change): Reciprocity and questions of hope

  • In-Person
Centre for Contempary Arts 350 Sauchiehall StreetGlasgow,

Immuto (Change) helps stimulate processes of intellectual, emotional, and ethical decolonization required to change the course of the climate emergency and biocultural collapse. Shot in Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Morocco, the EU, UK, and US, Immuto features energetic stories of crisis and action told by compelling changemakers living and working on the frontlines. These agents of […]

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