Description
COP26 UNFCCC United Nations Glasgow Official Side Event
Fair, fast and feminist!
A successful and just energy transition needs to be fast, fair and feminist. It also needs to be open, transparent, and inclusive. Presenting green, inclusive diverse indigenous, intersectional. Presenting feminist perspectives to achieve the Paris COP21 Climate Goals:
90 minute
Speaker panels with Q and A
You are invited to participate in an official UN side event, which considers how the race to save the climate needs to change to be more inclusive and diverse. We argue that alternative perspectives need to be heard as they hold the key to success.
The Green Economics Institute and C40s Cities have been arguing for a faster, more deep transition halving our carbon usage more quickly to ensure nothing is left to change and to keep track of climate change in time and implement a green recovery. C40 is a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change. C40 supports cities to collaborate effectively, share knowledge and drive meaningful, measurable and sustainable action on climate change
We present here- diverse, feminist, intersectional, indigenous voices informing us of what needs to be done and how and when it needs to be done. If we continue to simply transfer the profile of petro masculinity onto renewables -this wont solve our problems.
We need to consider how to change our consumption patterns and our profile of our relationship to each other and the planet and wild nature. The planet and nature and women are not there to simply be domesticated for the growth of the economy or for men’s use-.By trashing, mining, polluting and otherwise destroying the planet, workers and nature: -the earth and the climate may no longer support us, we need a new relationship with our home and our climate. One that acknowledges our place as temporary residents not owners of the planet.
Too achieve a green recovery, governments need -to secure decent living standards for all while, reducing global energy use to avert climate breakdown,: increase public services, reduce income equality, reduce extractive industries and reduce economic growth in affluent countries
1. Introduction: Partner organisations introduce the issues :5 minutes
Partners: Leena Ahmed -Sudan and UK- Green Economics Institute: Alice Hubbard, Uk and Australia, The Global Greens, Dr Shadbar (Japan and Mongolia) ERINA-Pan Asian Government Renewables Network- Smart Grid, (Mongolia), Green European Foundation TBC,C40 Cities TBC
Session 1. What do we need to do to create change in practice?
Invited Speakers:, Professor Cara New Daggett, Professor of political science at Virginia Tech (USA) Petro-masculinity, Hyper Petro masculinity an economic narrative of high mass consumption and supporting the American dream of man as hyper consumer, supporter, woman as home maker, despite fossil fuels’ degrading the environment and reflecting the inherent colonialist practices of oil extraction tbc
Gabrielle Sousa e Silva Hiltman Sustainability through Energy Transformation (Brazil and Germany) https://www.gabriellesousa.com/ Climate Feminist Ambassador Methodologies and philosophies for non standard conversations (Southern Europe, Baltics and Balkans).
C40s speaker- tbc -explains the importance of the role of planning for a fair, fast and inclusive energy transition in cities as the main place of human habitation tbc
Baroness Natalie Bennett House of Lords, United Kingdom. Why inclusion, diversity and intersectionality lead to more practical successful solutions-Women leaders and leadership styles in climate change tbc
Thomas Waitz MEP Organic Farmer (Austria)
Session 2
What do alternative voices for a just, inclusive intersectional transition say we need to do?
Speakers: Damola Shobowale, (UK) Jurisprudence and the legal perspectives. Mansfield College, University of Oxford
Climate Feminist Ambassadors, Methodologies and philosophies for non standard conversations (Southern Europe, Baltics and Balkans), explaining the struggles of non binary people and feminist perspectives part of a GEF project 2021.
Agneta Granstroem MP, (Sweden): Indigenous perspectives and inclusion Constructing the landscapes of today–The Indigenous contribution to the environment as it is today- SAMI perspectives in the pandemic
Anjiwki Mshallbwalla Action Aid (Nigeria):- Why girls and women’s participation in the energy transition and climate is critical and where we are now and how to change it.
Clare Bailey (UK)-Northern Ireland; Women and feminist perspectives.
Q and A from the floor
Session 3. Creating a just energy transition- Innovation and Learning from other alternative voices from around the world
Co Chairs: Dorothy Nulembega (Uganda), and EGP Jean Lambert(UK)- The role of women and intersectionality, diversity and inclusion in solving climate change
Speakers: : Dorothy Nalubega,( Uganda) Global Greens: Women Farmers of Uganda: Speaker
Jean Lambert EGP former Member of the European Parliament. The role of women and intersectionality, diversity and inclusion in solving climate change.. We need to make the fossil fuel lobby transparent, we need to transition from the combustion engine, we need to have a kerosene tax and we need to phase out coal.
– Mining for metals- can it ever be fair? Can we have a renewables transition without mining-or exploitation -what are the implications of this for a just transition- ? Part of a GEF project 2021.
Dr Susan Canney, Zoologist University of Oxford; expert in Elephant conservation in Mali and the involvement of diverse healthy local communities and the implications for the just transition tbc.
Nikofa-(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.
Manitese NGO ( Italy)- school exchanges and young people with crofters in the Scottish Highlands
Dr Shadbar (Japan and Mongolia); Erina climate science and energy in less developed countries.-Learnings from Indigenous peoples in Mongolia
Q and A from the floor
Side Event Applicant Partners
Green Economics Institute Research Organisation RINGO-UNFCCC (UK) www.greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk
Erina, Trans Asian Renewables Network and SMART GRID, Nomadic Peoples perspectives (Mongolia)
| Global Greens, | www.globalgreens.org |
| *Possibly C40 cities | tbc |
* Green European Foundation, Brussels tbc
**The Heinrich Boell Foundation Germany tbc
*Possibly Greenpeace International
Participating groups: (please send logos and web addresses
Manitese NGO Italy- hands on changing the world- https://www.manitese.it/en, Italy
Visio Education Organisation, Finland www.opintokeskusvisio.fi
GEIClimate Organisation www.geiclimate.org
The Climate Feminist Ambassadors Project
Mining for Metals Project Group
Global Young Greens (Belgium), – Janmejai Tiwari <
Action Aid, (Nigeria)
European Green Group (Belgium)
(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 https://www.necofakenya.or.ke/
Scottish Highlands Schools Exchange (Scotland) Learning for Sustainability Scotland, Scotland’s Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development – acknowledged by the United Nations University. – https://learningforsustainabilityscotland.org/ partnering with the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms project.
