Afternoon Climate Crisis Symposium and Networking Event

Speakers, messaging, ideas from around the world

The aim of this event is come up with solutions to input into the evolving Glasgow Treaty –

We have done this before and we will do it this time too. Come and take part in the conversation in Glasgow. No COP passes are needed for this event.

Come and find out and share knowledge of the latest climate ideas, climate action, climate impacts, climate solutions from around the world and the COP26 treaty and how we can each make a difference together and individually.

Introduction Session 1 :

Setting the scene- what is going on in the world and why it really matters for the next generations:

Session 1a 15.00-15.30 pm uk time

Setting the scene with one of the worlds leading biodiversity and extinction experts-

Q and A

Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Session 1 b 15.30 -16.00 uk time The power of media in helping solve climate change

Session 1 b 15.30 -16.00 uk time The power of media in helping solve climate change

The power of media in helping address climate change and other environmental matters.

-Praveen Gopalan Environmental Change Institute University of Oxford, media specialist.

Session 2

16.00- 16.30 Intersectionality, gender, feminism and social justice

Loss and damage for the global south /Methods and tech and the law – feminist perspectives: and indigenous perspectives from the global south

Science and technology- methodology and philosophy are heavily gendered and based on privilege- access to medicines, knowledge, healthcare, climate change prevention -very few companies, industries and peoples are causing the problems- many people are having to bear the consequences. How do we make the climate talks real as Greta says- we need to give ourselves a reality check.

Speakers:

-Jean Lambert: former Green MEP (UK). Committee member of the European Green Party, convening its Policy Lab on the Future of Work.

-Harriet Nakiyemba Ssebuwufu, Headteacher Environmental Activist, Koona women environmental and agricultural group, Kampala, Member, Climate Action Network (Uganda

-Dorothy Nalubega (Uganda) Chair and Speaker

-Ruth Nakatudde District Planner, Wakiso District Farmers’ Association (WADFA) Farming Organisation ( Uganda ) -physical planning, policy, local governance in regards to green economics. “Integration of Climate Change Issues on Spatial Planning and Development Control Permissions”

Short Break

Session 3 Young People at COP26 16.30-17.00

Speakers:

-Johana Alazar- Climate Feminist Ambassador -The Horn of Africa having problems being represented in global symposia- how to resolve the issues- Johanna Alazar Climate Feminist Ambassasor

-Ana Díaz Vidal is a climate activist and Sustainable Development student researching post-capitalist worldviews and the interaction between environment and the economy. She is a Feminist Climate Ambassador and is seeking to expose the intrinsic links between feminism and climate movements. – Is Degrowth as the solution to the issue of time in the climate crisis. Debt for Nature swaps: neo-colonialism or killing two birds with one stone

– -Gabriella Hiltman Climate Feminist Ambassador

Short Break

Session 4 17.00- 17.30 The voices of practitioners and experts from the Global South –

The view from the global south with intersectionality and feminist views, Loss and damage, Inter generational restitution- putting it all into practice:

(NECOFA) (Kenya) Network For Ecofarming in Africa (NECOFA) is a community based NGO in Kenya promoting Ecofarming: Ecologically sustainable land management. Indigenous Rift Valley Rural Communities in Kenya: Necofa -(Kenya) Young people and their educators to recognise the dilemmas for rural communities in the Rift Valley of Kenya and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the face of Climate Change.

(NECOFA) is a community based NGO in Kenya promoting Ecologically sustainable land management in indigenous Rift Valley Rural Communities in the Eastern Rift Valley, including the Mau Forest, where they face challenges of deforestation and the semi-arid Baringo Basin, with its cycle of severe drought and flooding.

Soeakers :

-Samuele Tini, working for partner NGO Mani Tese, will address the circular economy, the intersection of business and sustainability, entrepreneurship at grassroots level, especially involving women, and climate change.

-Farmer John Munene Mwangi from Molo;

-Community worker Lucy Wanjiru Wambui supporting sustainable agriculture projects around Molo;

-Community health promoter Irine Veriano Leching’ei from Baringo.