WECAN AT CLIMATE WEEK 2024
Please join us at Climate Week this September as the call grows louder than ever for governments and financial institutions to take urgent climate action. Global climate justice movements are rallying to address the deepening crisis and accelerate a path forward. At the forefront, women and feminists in all of their diversity are championing just and resilient community-led solutions.
WECAN will be on the ground in New York City during Climate Week 2024 from September 20-28 advocating and organizing with women leaders globally for public events, actions, and advocacy opportunities as well as strategy sessions with policy makers and movement partners. Please be welcome to join us in-person and online! See the following public events hosted by WECAN.
We will continue to update this page soon with more of our events in-person and online, as well as highlighting events in collaboration with partners and colleagues.
WECAN CLIMATE WEEK EVENTS & ACTIONS
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In-Person Forum: Women on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis: Ending the Era of Fossil Fuels and Implementing Solutions
Wednesday, September 25
4:45 - 8:00pm ET NYC Time
777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY
Registration for this event is at capacity, if you would like to attend please join the waitlist at the button below:
Please join us in-person during Climate Week in New York City for an inspiring and strategic WECAN forum, “Women on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis: Ending the Era of Fossil Fuels and Implementing Solutions.”
During this event, women leaders in all their diversity will come together to share comprehensive and intersectional approaches and strategies to stop fossil fuel extraction, accelerate community-led climate solutions, and lead a Just Transition grounded in a climate justice framework. Critical topics include fossil fuel resistance; food sovereignty; forest protection; gender-responsive climate policies; Indigenous and human rights; Rights of Nature; strategic preparations for COP29 and COP30; uplifting care economies; community-led solutions; and transformative policies for our collective future. Women are leading the way!
Featured Speakers:
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Federal Deputy Célia Xakriabá (Xakriabá), Member of the Brazil Chamber of Deputies from Minas Gerais State, and Co-founder of The National Association of Indigenous Ancestral Women Warriors (ANMIGA), Brazil
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Casey Camp Horinek (Ponca Nation), Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator, Turtle Island/United States
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Olivia Tirko Bisa (Chapra), President of the Chapra Nation of the Peruvian Amazon, Peru
- Jacqui Patterson, Founder and Executive Director of The Chisholm Legacy Project, 2024 TIME Women of the Year, Earth Award recipient, Turtle Island/United States
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Secretary Puyr Tembé (Tembé), the first Secretary of Indigenous Peoples of the State of Pará in Brazil, and Co-founder of The National Association of Indigenous Ancestral Women Warriors (ANMIGA), Brazil
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Roishetta Ozane, Founder of Vessel Project of Louisiana and Gulf Fossil Finance Coordinator for the Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund, Turtle Island/United States
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Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation), Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action, Turtle Island/Canada
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Farhana Yamin, Coordinator, Climate Justice & Just Transition Donor Collaborative, United Kingdom
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Tzeporah Berman, Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, Turtle Island/Canada
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Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa), Spokeswoman for Mujeres Amazónicas Defensoras de la Selva, WECAN Coordinator in Ecuador, Ecuador
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With moderation and comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/United States
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Virtual: Transforming Global Economies:
From Extraction to Regeneration in a Just Transition
Thursday, September 26
11:00 - 12:30 PM ET NYC Time
Virtual event via Zoom
Our current economic system relentlessly extracts resources from the Earth, fueling climate chaos and exploiting both people and the planet. It's time for bold, regenerative solutions to transform global economies! To secure a healthy and equitable future, we must change our global economic system and champion a regenerative, rights-based approach that prioritizes communities and nature, tackling the root causes of our intertwined social, economic, and climate crises.
Join us for an inspiring event where global women leaders will shine a light on a Just Transition and innovative economic models, solutions, and frameworks. Topics include community-led initiatives, feminist economics, Indigenous wisdom, beyond-growth economies, and traditional practices of reciprocity with the Earth. We will engage in dynamic discussions on emerging, socially just, place-based, and ecologically enriching economic models that offer a clear path to a thriving future for all.
Featured Speakers:
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Lidy Nacpil, The Asian People’ Movement on Debt and Development, Philippines
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Faith Lumonya, Economic Justice and Climate Action Lead, Akina Mama Wa Afrika, Uganda
- Monique Verdin (Houma Nation), WECAN Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator in the Gulf South, Director of Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange, Turtle Island/USA
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Monica Chuji Gualinga (Kichwa), Deputy Director for Latin America for the Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI); Former Minister of Communication and Constituent Assembly Member for Ecuador; Member of the Sarayaku Community of Sucumbios and a part of the Tukui Shimi & All Voices organizations, Ecuador
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Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and Director of Local Futures, United Kingdom
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Zukiswa White, Coordinator for the Women and Gender Constituency, South Africa
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Johannah Bernstein, Senior Policy Lead with Earth4All, Switzerland
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With moderation and comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA
WECAN CO-ORGANIZED EVENTS
The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice
Can Remake a World in Crisis
Wednesday, September 18
Closed event at Columbia University
To live in a healthy and equitable world, we must fundamentally change how we respect and interact with the Earth and one another. To change the present and future, it is imperative to change the narrative and amplify worldviews and stories of solutions that transform the dominant worldview from an extractivist, colonial paradigm of exploit and extract to a thriving, globally-conscious one of respect and restore.
During this event with students at Columbia University WECAN founder and author Osprey Orielle Lake will discuss the themes above and share a special presentation of her new book "The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice can Remake a World in Crisis."
"The Story is in Our Bones," was recently listed by Yale Climate Connections as one of the 12 books for a summer read.
Women & Feminists for Climate Justice Contingent
at the Fridays for Future March
Friday September 20
March starts at 2:00 PM ET, meet up at 1:15 PM ET
Meet up location: the sidewalk outside of the City Clerk's Office (141 Worth St, New York, NY 10013) on the northeast corner of Centre Street and Worth Street.
Please be welcome to join us and walk together with other women and feminists who are calling for an end to fossil fuels and for gender-just climate solutions! All organizations, feminists, women, and gender justice advocates are welcome to join the contingent as we march, sing and raise our voices in community.
We will meet at 1:15 PM Eastern Time on the sidewalk outside of the City Clerk's Office (141 Worth St, New York, NY 10013) on the northeast corner of Centre Street and Worth Street. Then, as a group, walk over to the march starting location (Foley Square).
If you want to learn more about the global climate strike, please see here: https://tinyurl.com/2td8cmke
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6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal
End of the Fossil Fuel Era -1st session-
Sunday, September 22, 2024
8:30am - 4:00pm ET
The New School Starr Foundation Hall, University Center Room UL102 63 Fifth Avenue (at 13th Street)
The International Rights of Nature Tribunal will join Climate Week in New York in calling for a transition from fossil fuels and advocating for the Rights of Nature as a key response to the climate crisis. An expert panel will address global cases where the fossil fuel industry has violated Nature’s rights, harmed human rights and environmental defenders, and pushed the planet towards catastrophe. Cases will cover false climate solutions, pipeline projects, oil spills, and sacrifice zones. Learn more about the cases and tribunal here.
Register to attend in-person at the button above. If you would like to join virtually, register here.
The Tribunal aims to create a forum for people from all around the world to speak on behalf of nature, to protest the destruction of the Earth, destruction that is often sanctioned by governments and corporations, and to make recommendations about Earth’s protection and restoration. Learn more about previous tribunals here. The Tribunal is organized by the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature (GARN), WECAN, and other partner organizations.
Gender and Environment Data Alliance:
Bridging Data and Action in the Lead-up to COP29
Thursday, September 26, 6:00-8:00 PM ET Time
Population Council, 3rd floor, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY
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During this event hear from members of the Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) about the importance of data to advance and monitor gender-response climate action, particularly with a focus on the UNFCCC gender and transparency processes.
Katherine Quaid (Confederated Tribes of Umatilla), WECAN Communications & Outreach Coordinator will be joining the panel of members and small grant winners. We hope you can join us!
PARTNER EVENTS
Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty
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During New York Climate Week, the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty team will be coordinating a series of online and in-person events that will bring together world leaders, policymakers, civil society, and experts to advocate for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and chart a path toward a sustainable, fossil-free future.
Please find a full list of Fossil Fuel Treaty events here.
Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN Executive Director is a member of the Steering Committee for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, and we are honored to continue advocacy efforts for the Treaty.
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
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This September, the Rights of Nature (RoN) are taking center stage at Climate Week New York, and GARN will be present to advocate for a just transition and immediate climate action.
In addition to the International Rights of Nature Tribunal session mentioned above, GARN will host several engaging GARN hub events, and much more. Don’t miss this crucial opportunity to engage in discussions that could shape Mother Earth's future of our planet.
Find a full line up of Rights of Nature events here.
Specifically, we want to highlight a special Rights of Nature meeting being hosted by the GARN Indigenous Council, please see below:
GARN Indigenous Council Gathering
When: Tuesday, September 24, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Location: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU Law, Seminar Room, 5th Floor
139 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012
During the event, GARN Indigenous Council leadership will discuss how Rights of Nature intersects with traditional knowledge and Indigenous sovereignty. RSVP here today!
Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch will be at Climate Week in solidarity with Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and climate activists demanding climate justice and calling for the permanent protection of the Amazon and for banks to stop financing Amazon destruction.
A Mobilization for Women’s Rights and the Planet in New York City
SEPTEMBER 21st, 2024 | 10:00 am EDT at Madison Square Park
Join Tiffany Shlain of Let it Ripple, and partners including Women Connect4Good, Project Dandelion, ERA Coalition, NOW, Vital Voices, and more for a powerful event at Madison Square Park in NYC on Saturday, September 21st at 10am that will connect, inspire, amplify and mobilize people to the polls.
The event also includes the NYC unveiling of Tiffany Shlain’s sculpture Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring, which was last featured on the National Mall in DC. The program features speakers in the gender equality and climate justice movement along with select cast members from the Tony award-winning Broadway musical, SUFFS. Participants are invited to wear white. This is a non-partisan event and free and open to the public. RSVP and learn more here.
Financing the Future: Aligning Finance with the Paris Agreement's Promise
Saturday, September 21 | 1:00 PM EDT at Glasshouse on Park
Learn from leading policymakers from global south and global north countries, industry experts, and leaders on the frontlines as they discuss strategies for financing a sustainable future. From ending financing for fossil fuel expansion to green investments, this event will explore how finance can play a crucial role in achieving the promises of the Paris Agreement. Co-hosts of the event are Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), and Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD).
Speakers include parliamentarians and frontline leaders, including Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation), Environmental Ambassador for the Ponca Nation, and WECAN Board Member.
Invest in Indigenous Sovereignty:
A Panel Discussion with Indigenous Climate Action
Tuesday, September 24 | 2 - 4pm EDT at Penthouse 463
Join Indigenous Climate Action and Sacred Earth Solar on Tuesday, September 24, 2024 for hybrid panel discussion with Indigenous leaders confronting colonial false solutions, and advocating for strong rights based divestment strategies to the climate crisis. Learn more and register here.