Programme

How It Works

The climate movement is global, and so is the Gathering: the event covers all timezones!

You choose what sessions to attend. For the full experience, you can join a 6-hour ‘cycle’ for each of the 3 days in your desired timezone; otherwise, simply drop in for individual workshops. Each 6-hour ‘cycle’ will include:

  • An opening musical performance and an inspirational panel of keynote speakers
  • Your choice of smaller-group, interactive sessions including Workshops, Cultural, and Movement Stories sessions
  • Plenty of time for breaks so you can rest and step away from the screen, or network with other participants and partner organisations

 

Opening Cultural Session

15 mins

Panel Session

1 hr

Workshops

1 hr 30 mins

Long Break/ Informal Time

2 hrs

General Cycle Format

Short Break

30 mins

Closing Cultural Session

15 mins

Workshops

1 hr 30 mins

Movement Stories

1 hr

 

Want more detail? Visit our Frequently Asked Questions, or scroll down to browse the summarised programme.

The timings you’ll see below are based on your apparent location. Want all the cycles in your calendar, or to check the timings in the UTC timezone? Find them here

Once you’re registered, you can also log into the event portal to see the full programme including individual session timings, and plan out your personal schedule.

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Day 1: Friday 9th April, 2021

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Panel: Just Recovery for All

"The pandemic has exposed the deep inequities of our existing economic system and opened a pathway to leave these injustices behind. We need to come together and push for a world that puts people before profit. Now it's the time to turn the corner away from harmful practices that destroy our climate and the living world around us."

With Hakima Abbas, Naomi Klein, Amitav Ghosh, Dominique Palmer

  Languages supported
Interpretation: Bahasa Indonesia, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Português, Türkçe, 日本語
Captioning: English
Workshops
  • Community Organising for Climate Justice
  • Student Climate Activism as Civics Education
  • Speaking to the Media
  • Scaling Diverse Land Protection Movements Without Money
  • Introduction to China Finance Campaigning
  • Understanding Climate-driven Migration
  • Resilience & Wellbeing for More Joyful Activism
And many more...
Movement Stories
  • How Campaigners Are Mobilising Global Communities of Climate Advocates Online
  • Innovations in Clean Energy Solutions
  • Oil and Gas Industry 101: What They Are Planning, What Are Their Strengths and Weak Spots, How We Beat Them By Connecting
  • Organising Under a Brutal Regime—Case Study: A Case Study in Gambia
  • Why We Need a New Multilateralism for a Global Just Recovery
And many more...
Cultural sessions with musicians, poets & artists

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Panel: How to Postpone the End of the World?

"We are going through a major crisis and its deepest roots are related to our continuous war against nature. This disconnection with nature has caused damage to the planet and ourselves. We need radical changes in our way of being in the world."

With Vandana Shiva, Ailton Krenak, Tasneem Essop & Adriana Calderón

  Languages supported
Interpretation: Bahasa Indonesia, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Português, Türkçe, 日本語
Captioning: English
Workshops
  • Strategic Creative Activism for the Win
  • European Financing of Fossil Fuels Globally: The 21st Century Version of European Colonialism
  • Energy Policy Tracker: Influencing Recovery Policies Across Countries
  • Bird-dogging Tactics and Research
  • Messaging Testing 101: When, Why, and How
  • Healthy & Non-Extractive Storytelling in the USA
  • How to Win the Narrative: Climate Movement Communication
And many more...
Movement Stories
  • Building a Better Future in Latin America: Moving out of Business as Usual to Buen Vivir
  • Shell Must Fall!
  • Climate Change, Plastics, and Environmental Racism: Slaying the Petrochemical Hydra
  • Women for Climate Justice Leading Solutions on the Frontlines
  • The Future We Want! Youth’s Perspectives for a New Development Model of Brazil and the World
  • “Net Zero” is NOT Zero: Smokescreens, Threats and the Need for Real Action
And many more...
Cultural sessions with musicians, poets & artists

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Panel: Grounding Ourselves: Science Updates & Our Mental Health

"How do we cope with the most up-to-date data from climate scientists without getting trapped by anxiety-related responses and mental health disorders? Sharing ways to process this information and remain steady to keep on fighting.”

With Luisa Neubauer, Ko Barrett, Renee Lertzman, George Marshall

  Languages supported
Interpretation: Bahasa Indonesia, English, Español, Français, Português, Türkçe, 日本語, 中文
Captioning: English
Workshops
  • Fossil Free Fed: Public Money for the Public Good
  • Follow The Money: Tracing Climate Injustice to Fossil Finance in the Pacific
  • Cut the Money: Cutting the Flow of Money to Australia’s Gas Expansion in the Northern Territory
  • Private Finance Campaigning in Japan
  • Grassroots Digital Storytelling: Telling Our Truths About the Climate Crisis
  • Get Noticed By Asian Media: A 101 Workshop
Movement Stories
  • Kato Ni Mana: Weaving our Stories Into the Baskets of Hope
  • Use of Legal Options for Climate Justice
  • Climate Colonialism and Reparations
  • Just Recovery in Japan
  • Ecofeminists for Creative Solutions: Advocating for Gender and Climate Justice as Artists
Cultural sessions with musicians, poets & artists

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Day 2: Saturday 10th April, 2021

 

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Panel: Hearing the Guardians of the Earth

"Nature is sacred and so we treat it. We need to learn from the ancestral wisdom of those who stay attached to the multiple forms of life and existence on Earth."

With Eriel Deranger, Noelene Nabulivou, Francisco Javier Vera Manzanares

  Languages supported
Interpretation: Bahasa Indonesia, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Português, Türkçe, 日本語
Captioning: English
Workshops
  • Finance Campaigning 101
  • How do We Build Solidarity in Environmental Movements Between the Global North and South?
  • Cut Through the Noise and Shift the Conversation
  • deCOALonize: A Model for Community Climate Justice
  • Creative Online Tactics for Your Campaign
  • How We Build People Power: Pakistan
And many more...
Movement Stories
  • Not On Our Soil: The Gendered Lens
  • Mozambique Gas Rush Provokes Human Rights Abuses, Climate Devastation, Insurgent Attacks
  • How to Beat the Energy Charter Treaty
  • Climate Jobs: People's Plan to Fight the Fire
  • Equity, Solidarity and Collective Care for People and Nature: Gender-Just, Community-Based Systems and Practices for a Just Recovery
  • Questioning Green Recovery: Feminist Critical Pathways to Just and Equitable Transition
And many more...
Cultural sessions with musicians, poets & artists

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Panel: The Urgency of Intersectional Organizing: BIPOC Voices on Climate

"How our struggles link altogether? To face the crisis in the urgency and proportion that it needs to be faced, we need everyone, at the same time and now. Combining efforts is a fundamental task among movements in search of freedom and dignity."

With Chibeze Ezekiel, Pennie Opal Plant, Patricia Wattimena & Ayakha Melithafa

  Languages supported
Interpretation: Bahasa Indonesia, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Português, Türkçe, 日本語
Captioning: English
Workshops
  • Building Labour Climate Coalitions for a Just Recovery
  • Building Digital Campaigning and Organising Tools for the Global Movement
  • Honouring Language Diversity: Organising Multilingual Online Events
  • [Re]Frame Gas: How Anti-Gas Movements Are Reframing Industry Narratives
  • Holistic Security in the Amazon
  • Oil and Gas in the Amazon: Histories of Impacts and Tactics for Resistance
  • Building People Power in Your Campaign Group Using Digital Tools Especially During COVID Times
And many more...
Movement Stories
  • The Devastating Impact of the Climate Crisis on Racialised Communities in Europe
  • Degrowth at its Core
  • Building a Climate Safe Caribbean
  • Why Does Climate Justice Matter: How the Most Affected Communities are Dealing with Climate Change
  • The People's Climate Commitment: Our Glasgow Agreement
  • Mobilising Around a Feminist Climate Justice Agenda
  • Regenerative Leadership in the Environmental Movement in Latin America
And many more...
Cultural sessions with musicians, poets & artists

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Panel: End Fossil Finance

"To prevent devastating climate breakdown, we have to end all finance to fossil fuels. The only way to stop them is through sustained public organising and people power."

With Bill McKibben, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Sharan Burrow & Demond Drummer

  Languages supported
Interpretation: Bahasa Indonesia, English, Español, Français, Português, Türkçe, 日本語, 中文
Captioning: English
Workshops
  • Pipelines to Refineries: Fossil Fuels, Impacted Communities, and Stopping the Climate Crisis
  • Navigating Power & Privilege Within Local Groups
  • Involving Youth & Media in National Advocacy Campaign
  • Social Media Strategy for Campaigns
  • Networking 101: How to Expand Your Reach, Grow Connections, and Collaborate Effectively
  • Finance Campaigning in Taiwan
  • A Better World is Paintable! How to Use Art to Win
Movement Stories
  • Building Solidarity to Defend Our Defenders: Perspectives From Asia
  • Building National Network of Climate Action and Planning Creative Campaigns
  • The Asian Context: Effective Environmental Activism Within Disenfranchised Communities
Cultural sessions with musicians, poets & artists

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Day 3: Sunday 11th April, 2021

 

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Panel: Climate Solutions Can Only Succeed with Justice at the Heart

"We cannot be distracted by false solutions allowing the climate crisis to continue to escalate, disproportionately affecting those who have contributed the least to the real problem."

With Nnimmo Bassey, Lidy Nacpil, Teresa Anderson & Sohanur Rahman

  Languages supported
Interpretation: Bahasa Indonesia, English, Español, Français, Português, Türkçe, 日本語, বাংলা
Captioning: English
Workshops
  • Intentional Intersectionality in the Fight Against Climate Change
  • China Finance Campaigning: How Does the Financing Work?
  • Artivism Training: Changing the Story to Change the World
  • Winning a Green New Deal in the UK
  • Digital Organising and Movement Building
  • Nonviolent Direct Action Globally
  • Creating Actions That Tell Stories: Principles of Narrative Intervention
Movement Stories
  • Relocalisation: Exploring Solutions for Just and Green Recovery
  • Lessons From a Victory: Defeating an Airport Project for the Commons
  • Stop EACOP: Africa's Longest Oil Pipeline
  • None of Us Are Who We Were: Why a Just Global Recovery Must Put Trauma Healing and Resilience at Its Heart
  • Ending the Age of the Combustion Engine
  • Climate Change Organising in the Middle East, North Africa and Indonesia
And many more...
Cultural sessions with musicians, poets & artists

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Panel: Building Power Through Youth Organising

"They ask us to have hope, in a clear attempt to imprison us, but the world is on fire and this requires immediate action. We won't stop."

With Greta Thunberg, Brianna Fruean & Vanessa Nakate

  Languages supported
Interpretation: Bahasa Indonesia, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Português, Türkçe, 日本語
Captioning: English
Workshops
  • What's Next: Mobilisation Perspectives for 2021 and Beyond
  • How We Organise to Win: Stories from 350 US Local Groups
  • How to Create Videos to Win Campaigns
  • Ecofeminist Direct Action: Let's be Careful so We can be Dangerous Together
  • Carbon Inequality: From Data to Impact
  • Spreading the Word: Using the Media to Get in the News
And many more...
Movement Stories
  • How We Stopped Keystone XL
  • Health Justice and the Green New Deal
  • The People v. Climate Change: Advancing Climate Justice Through the Courts
  • How Cities Can Lead the Global Transition Away From Fossil Fuels
  • Artist and Cultural Organizer Roundtable: How Can Movements Better Engage Creativity?
And many more...
Cultural sessions with musicians, poets & artists

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