On the Road to COP28

Peoples’ Climate Week was a counter-space to mainstream NYC Climate Week events. The actions and events are another step to advance a Peoples’ Agenda to interrupt and disrupt the promotion of false solutions to climate change and other crises. The undeniable truth is that these false solutions are aggressively being advanced and in many cases, funded by corporate, governmental, and big NGO actors — whose presence dominated the official proceedings of the NYC Climate Week for the UN Ambitions Summit, and UN Conferences of Parties.

This is a critical moment and urgency is needed, taking a clear path to regenerative forms of economic, social equity and well-being are imperative if we are to stop the deployment of false solutions that not only extends the era of fossil fuels but increases demand for exponentially more…

A Peoples' Climate Week: Launch

Live from the New School: Plenary & Movement Social as the launch of Peoples’ Climate Week.

Speakers:

Nnimmo Bassey, HOME-F, Nigeria
Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
Claudiene Florencio, President of the Association of Pataxó Indigenous Women, Brazil
Raya Salter, The Black Hive and Energy Justice, Policy and Law Centre NY
Kali Akuno, Coop Jackson & Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Krystal TwoBulls, Honor the Earth

Moderators:

Kandi White, Indigenous Environmental Network
Margaret Kwateng, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

Live from the New School: A teach-in led by EJ/CJ frontline and BIPOC organizers on real versus false climate solutions.

Speakers:

Crystal Cavalier, No Mountain Valley Pipeline campaign
Juan Mancias, Frontlines of LNG pipelines in Texas
Jose Bravo, Just Transition Alliance
Panganga Pungowiyi, Indigenous Environmental Network
Julia Bernal, Pueblo Action Alliance
Natalie Jeffers, The Black Climate Mandate
Mohiba Ahmed, Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM)
Moñeka De Oros, feminist anti-militarism
Brittany DeBarros, feminist anti-militarism

Committed to amplifying diverse voices, The New School offers more than a thousand public programs and events each year, providing fresh perspectives and unique learning opportunities. These lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and performances feature prominent and emerging artists, activists, and thought leaders.

Environmental Justice Groups Host Response To False Solutions pushed at the UN Climate Ambition Summit

Lenape Lands, New York City, NY— National climate justice leaders from organizations representing impacted, frontline communities will be holding a press conference on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 during NYC Climate Week to demand real climate solutions, a Just Transition, climate reparations, and a phase-out of fossil fuels.

The messages delivered on September 17 and in conferences throughout the week were very clear:

Ambitions pushed by politicians of nation-states inside the Climate Ambition Summit are False Solutions to climate mitigation whose real intentions are to expand the fossil fuels infrastructure enabling destructive industries to continue business as usual, destroying the land, air and water, while simultaneously exploiting workers and Mother Earth;
Participants in the March were there to demand real climate solutions, including Indigenous Peoples’ rights and knowledge systems that are critical to the development of to the Climate Crisis and achieving Climate Justice;
A Just Transition to sustainable economies can be created around cleanup of the mess that dirty energy has made, in a way that is as fair and inclusive of everyone, creating decent work opportunities and carefully managing challenges.