Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit

From October 19 – 22, the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth US are convening a Global Grassroots Leaders Summit, to engage the voices on the ground from grassroots and community leaders from countries across the globe who are far too often left out of international climate conversations.

After the success of the First Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit in June, Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth US are convening a second group of global grassroots leaders to participate in the Second Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit from October 19 – 22.

The grassroots summit comes ahead of the G20 leaders summit and the UN Climate Summit this Fall, where world leaders must raise their ambitions and make progress on global climate commitments. We believe grassroots voices are critical to this conversation and the measures taken by world leaders must be informed by the knowledge and demands of activists across the world who represent their communities.

During a global pandemic with inequitable access to vaccines and healthcare, burdensome travel restrictions, and costly barriers to participation, world leaders must make a more concerted effort to be accessible to grassroots voices. All too often, their viewpoints aren’t sufficiently represented at convenings like the G20 and UN Climate summits where critical decisions are made.

The Second Global Grassroots Climate Summit is an attempt to bridge that gap—to bring grassroots climate leaders together with U.S. decision-makers prior to these critical international summits so their voices can be heard. Like the first summit, participants will partake in a series of private discussions with decision makers, as well as public-facing conversations about their campaigns and the actions they want to see taken by world leaders.

RSVP for The Second Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit!

When you RSVP, we’ll keep you informed as the participants are announced and the agenda for the summit develops. You’ll also be invited to attend the public-facing sessions of the summit, where you can learn more about the participants and their demands of U.S. and global decision-makers.

Participants

Participant list is coming soon—stay tuned!

Agenda

Oct. 19 – 22, Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit Agenda: Public facing webinars – to be recorded and shared live

Date TBD,Ensuring Equity in Retiring Coal: Equity Mechanisms for coal plant retirements
Date TBD, Climate Change, Impact on Livelihoods and Elevating Demands from New Orleans to Philippines
Date TBD, Gas is not a transition fuel: Examples from the Frontlines in the Global South

Private Meetings

Date TBD, Congressional briefing
Date TBD, Meeting with John Kerry, US Special Envoy for Climate
Date TBD, Meetings with other US COP Negotiators
Date TBD, Strategy session(s) between grassroots leaders
Date TBD, A presentation from US civil society organizations on progress from the US on climate internationally, and remaining challenges

Tell U.S. Climate Negotiators: Center Grassroots Voices and Demands at Key Global Climate Summits!

Tell U.S. Climate Negotiators: Climate action should center the needs of the communities most impacted by climate change. Take Action

Summit organized by the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth US. Questions? Send them to Neha Mathew-Shah: neha.mathew@sierraclub.org.

The Eight Trillion Dollar War w/ Dr. Heidi Peltier

At the beginning of September, The Cost of War Project at Brown University released its report showing that the costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the other post-9/11 wars was a staggering $8 Trillion dollars. And these trillions of dollars are only the extra money the U.S. has paid specifically for those wars. For the most part they do not include the huge Pentagon base budget that pays for everything except for actually fighting these wars. In addition, the report states that over 900,000 people were killed in our post-9/11 wars.

Join Massachusetts Peace Action to hear Professor Heidi Peltier present the main findings of this report. She will give us a rundown of the various categories of expenses spent conducing these wars over these 20 years and the significance of these enormous numbers. And she will give us the costs specifically attributed to the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War. You will learn just what these wars really cost us – and these expenses don’t even include most of the interest on the money we borrowed to fight these wars that will have to be paid for years to come.

Heidi Peltier is a Research Professor and contributor to the Cost of War Project at Brown University. She is also director of “20 Years of War,” a Costs of War research series in partnership with the Pardee Center at Boston University. Dr. Peltier has written extensively on the employment impacts of public spending, including in the areas of green growth as well as demilitarization. Her research focuses on how the public sector can serve the public good, including by putting the economy on a path toward sustainable development — as well as demilitarizing federal spending in order to shift funds to other areas of public interest. Dr. Peltier has consulted with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the International Labour Organization, the U.S. Department of Energy, and various other organizations.

Time

Meeting ID: 837 5355 4330

Please click this URL to join. https://us06web.zoom.us/w/83753554330?tk=3-lru-QNS28QJ0dX5BSLY-Bk26_s6dY756VK-y9GPEk.DQMAAAATgBnRmhZ2MmNMeHFCMVEyNnhqQUJXNHBydGd3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Deadline for public comments on Digihost purchase of Fortistar

The NY State Public Service Commission is Accepting Comments on whether to allow bitcoin miner Digihost to purchase the Fortistar frack-gas power plant located in North Tonawanda, NY.

Deadline for comments is October 12, 2021. The Sierra Club is providing talking points here. Given the immense amount of CO2 and raw methane the will escape into the atmosphere, this PSC should not allow this sale to go forward.

Send your comments here: secretary@dps.ny.gov. Make sure the Case Number is included: 21-M-0238

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