COP26 UNFCCC United Nations Glasgow Official Side Event 11th November 11.30-12.45 am Uk time in Blue Zone Passes Required Room, Derwentwater Room : National Event Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

Fair, fast and feminist! ‘Raising climate ambition levels’ IPCC 2021:

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.

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:

Energy is at the core of climate change, and clearly, it will not be transformed by the same tools which have brought us here. Gabrielle Sousa e Silva Hiltmann

11th November 2021- 11.30- 12.45 UK time

Faster Climate Ambition 1.5 degrees:

Alternative Gendered Diverse Voices to save the climate

Fires,storms,floods, landslides; we are drowning! Critical realist voices for climate ambition. All hands on deck. Leadership perspectives from Indigenous, feminist,Inclusive,diverse,accesible,sustainable gendered intersectional energy transitions.

System transformation Official Stream of COP

Part of the official COP26 pathways: Differentiation and equity Negotiation

The Special Side Event will ask for:

1. Every country, every company, every person, to take faster ambition to limit the climate to 1.5 degrees of warming:

Every country, every person, every company to divest from Fossil Fuels Now and move to renewables now. Finance and Technology support for global south- 600 billion to be released now. Loss and damage and climate equity- 2 tonnes of carbon per person on th e planet down from a global human average of 4.9 tonnes. Contraction and convergence to sustainability and equity.

2. Climate solutions must be fair, feminist, gendered, inclusive, indigenous, diverse, intersectional to be effective.

Leadership in the 21st century to become fair, feminist, gendered, inclusive, indigenous, diverse, intersectional.

3. Climate Action Now:

Reducing per capita human emissions from 4.5 tonnes of carbon pp per year to 2 tonnes of carbon pp per year by 2025.

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We argue that alternative perspectives need to be heard as they hold the key to success.

80% of people displaced by natural disasters are women -UK government -cop information video.

Alternative voices for a fair & feminist transition: The event aims to amplify alternative voices to highlight the intersectionality of the climate crisis, and how a truly just transition can be achieved. As energy consumption is one of the key aspects of climate change, the event will specifically look at the transition of energy systems. What changes need to be made? How can we implement those changes in a just manner?

Rationale for the Side Event:

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 and gender equity

Over the past 171 years, human activities have raised atmospheric concentrations of CO2 by 48% above pre-industrial levels found in 1850. This is more than what had happened naturally over a 20,000 year period (from the Last Glacial Maximum to 1850, from 185 ppm to 280 ppm. It is now at 416 ppm (Nasa website 01,07,2021.)

High Climate Ambition: Alternative voices for a Fast & Fair Just Inclusive Diverse Energy Transition

Fast& Fair:High Ambition to save the climate. Towards inclusive,diverse,accessible, sustainable intersectional Energy Transition Leadership:Feminist Matrifocal ambassadors,Kenya,Europe & Mongolia Indigenous farmers, Young people,ScotsHighlands,Mine workers Smartgrid End of combustion engines&fossil

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

The Green Economics Institute is inclusive and diverse and feminist and intersectional.

Speaker panels with Q and A

Session 1: Indigenous perspectives from around the world for intersectional and inclusive climate action and change. Indigenous wisdom and leadership is an important part of the climate solutions we all need. Time to reverse our power structures and begin afresh.

Speakers:

.-Nangoonzi Daisy Prossy, Indigenous farming practitioner (Uganda)

-Irene Leching’ei Baringo Basin, Indigenous health worker, a remote area (Keyna ) Speaker from (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.

-Dr Enkhbayar Shagdar ( Mongolia and Japan), ERINA specialist expert coordinator of the Pan Asian Smart renewables grid,

Session 2: Intersectionality- femininst perspectives, diversity and inclusion and the global south

Speakers:

-Dorothy Nalebega speaker and specialist in women and environmental action (Uganda)

-Patrick Harvie MSP Minister in the Scottish Parliament intersectionality(Scotland) tbc

-Baroness Natalie Bennett, House of Lords (UK)-Feminist Climate Ambassadors, Title – Extractive systems, exploitative systems – how feminism and environmentalism fit together.

-Gabrielle Sousa e Silva Hiltmann Specialist in a just energy transition and a climate feminist ambassador.(Germany and Brazil)

-Johana Alazar- (Eritrea)

Krsytel Sil Kana -() Climate Feminist Ambassador- how African ideas are curated by the global north and not included in discussions or academia- The mechanics of exclusion.

-Lucy Wanjairu -(Keyna)Farmer- Community worker round Molo near Mau forest -youth and womens groups promoting sustainable agriculture farming and gardening.

Session 3 Loss and Damage in the COP26 treaty for the global south.

Speakers:

-Chelungut Scholar Green activist (Kenya)

-JeanLambert,(UK )Former MEP Member of the European Parliament, former MEP, working on Just Transition, social justice and democracy.

-Dorothy Nulabega Farmer (Uganda)Indigenous peoples from Kenya & Sweden

-Michelle Gale Lead Negotiator for GEI at COPs (USA and Brazil) and VP of large social justice charity in Chicago, USA.

-John Mnguwe (NECOFA) Agronomist -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.

-Samuel Tini Mani Tese NGO ( Italy and Keyna) – hands on changing the world

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For more information please email Miriam Kennet, The Green Economics Institute,

greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com

www.geiclimate.org and www.greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk

PLEASE NOTE – IN ORDER TO ATTEND THIS EVENT- YOU MUST HAVE A COP26 PASS TO THE CONFERENCE. IF IN DOUBT PLEASE CHECK WITH US BY EMAIL.

Lead applicant: Green Economics Institute (GEI), by Ms. Miriam Kennet.

Co-applicant: Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG),

Co-applicant: Global Greens (Verts Mondiaux) (Global Greens),

Co-applicant: Green European Foundation (GEF).

Co-applicant: Technology Education Research and Rehabilitation for Environment Policy Centre (TERRE Policy Centre), – Founding President Dr Vinitaa Apte Terre Policy Centre -Pune,( India ) Terre Policy Centre- Pune( India)-Promoting policies and projects in energy and food security, including Renewable energy, energy efficiency, micro-grids, organic farming, sustainable agriculture, climate change and leveraging interlinkages for the cost effective transformation to sustainable living. o Networking with World Natural Heritage (WNH) sites of UNESCO to advance the sustainable living of the communities, eco-tourism and nature conservation