EJ LEADERS CRUSH CLIMATE WEEK: Climate Justice Movements Disrupt Business As Usual at COP27

The upcoming 27th UNFCCC Conference Of the Parties (COP) in Egypt has been optimistically designed as a space for governments, policy makers, business, and civil society to confront the growing climate crisis. This year, Social Movements are being restricted from organizing on the “streets” to build power with local Egyptian communities not accredited to enter the COP official spaces - seriously limiting the input of civil society in the COP negotiations.
Representatives from frontline environmental justice communities gathered to:
-Reflect on the historical wins of Social Movements at the UNFCC-Conference of Parties
-Share the evolution and co-mingling of national and international policy that help and hurt BIPOC frontline communities, workers, and women most impacted as a result of the negotiations
-Crowdsource how to creatively disrupt business as usual along with three decades of global incremental climate negotiations that have seem to run their course.
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The discussion explored the unique role of frontline delegates both inside and outside strategy in the negotiations, resistance to false solutions and organizing for more inclusive, democratic and just climate solutions beyond the Conference of Parties. It was hosted by the Environmental Justice Movement Fellowship at the Tishman Environment and Design Center.
Moderator:
Angela Mahecha - Director, Ripe for Creative Disruption, EJ Movement Fellowship
Roundtable:
Bineshi Albert - CJA/It Takes Roots, EJ Movement Fellowship Advisory Board member
Colette Pichon Battle - TapRoot International
Jade Begay - NDN Collective, EJ Movement Fellow
Osprey Orielle Lake - WeCAN
Jacqueline Patterson - The Chisholm Project, EJ Movement Fellowship Advisory Board member
Jesús Vázquez - Organización Boricua; La Via Campesina, EJ Movement Fellow