2:00 - 7:00 PM EST

Pier 4 - Brooklyn Army Terminal

80 58th St, Brooklyn, NY 11220

Join UPROSE for the “Climate Justice Lives Here!” community festival on Saturday, September 28th, 2024, in Sunset Park. This significant event concludes NYC Climate Week and marks the 10th anniversary of the People’s Climate March, celebrating the pivotal role of frontline communities in advancing climate justice. The festival will take place at the Brooklyn Army Terminal waterfront, offering a vibrant array of activities, including cultural performances, poetry readings, learning circles, and art projects, all centered around raising awareness for climate justice.

6:00 - 7:30 PM EST

Wollman Hall

66 West 12th Street, New York, NY, 10011

Join us for a galvanizing conversation on how grassroots-led climate solutions are not just innovative and scalable, but essential for the systemic change we need.

Environmental justice (EJ) and climate justice (CJ) grassroots communities are building holistic climate solutions that also address complex social issues in a way that puts communities and peoples in charge of their own futures. This work is often mistranslated or inaccurately translated in the “impact” frameworks of funders and policymakers, who may incorrectly perceive this work as too small to tackle the climate crisis effectively, even though these efforts are key to creating healthy and thriving climate-resilient communities. 

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Online (Zoom)

During this virtual event, global women leaders will spotlight a Just Transition and economic models, solutions, and frameworks based on community-led solutions, feminist economics, Indigenous knowledge, beyond growth economies, and ancient concepts of reciprocity with the Earth and the web of life. The event discussion will focus on the growing emergence of socially just, place-based, and ecologically enhancing economic models that provide a clear blueprint for a thriving future for all.

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

*Application required

Join Taproot Noire, a formation rooted in Taproot Earth, for our annual Black Climate Leadership Summit during Climate Week NYC in 2024. This year's theme, “Connecting Land + Black Liberation" is a powerful and meaningful exploration of the intersections between climate justice, relationship to land, and collective liberation. Drawing inspiration from the seminal speech "Connecting the Struggles: An Informal Talk with Black Americans" by the legendary Amilcar Cabral, this Black-exclusive space will provide a vital opportunity for participants to come together, connect with one another, and deepen their shared understanding of the critical issues facing Black communities across the Gulf South, Appalachia, and the global South.

6:00 - 8:30 PM EST

China Institute of America

100 Washington St., 1st Floor, New York, NY 10006

A dynamic evening celebrating the AAPI artists involved in the ALL ARTS/PBS documentary series "Climate Artists" with an expert panel discussion, comedy from rising star Jiaoying Summers, climate-conscious food & cocktails, and an exclusive documentary series screening!

4:45 PM - 8:00 PM EST

UN Church Center

777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017

During this in-person forum hosted by WECAN, 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!

7:00 - 9:30 PM EST

The People's Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018

Western Democracies all over the world are now responding to civil disobedience and peaceful protests by climate activists with disproportionate penalties and harsh new laws. What’s the future of democracies, if its citizens aren’t allowed to peacefully protest and advocate for a just green economy? Join us for an open and in-depth discussion on the future of climate activism.

6:00 - 8:30 PM EST

Hilton Midtown, 1335 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019

Each year, the Grist identifies 50 innovative and emerging leaders in climate, equity, and sustainability. These brilliant people are driving change in policy, in fashion, in tech, and in our food systems. Collectively, their work shows what a vibrant, diverse climate movement looks like, and how everyone has a place in it.

Join Grist in celebrating the 2024 Grist 50 with an event highlighting the personal stories and solutions of three of the new members of our Fixer community, followed by a networking reception to meet members of this year's Grist 50 list and mingle with other climate leaders.

5:30 - 7:30 PM EST

The People's Forum

320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

Join a panel discussion and fundraiser to benefit AMANESER 2025, a Puerto Rican environmental justice organization that works to bring rooftop solar systems to the people and communities that need it the most. These affordable, small-scale systems are designed to meet the critical needs of refrigeration, lighting and medical equipment during Puerto Rico's frequent blackouts. As Puerto Rico faces what could be a record-breaking hurricane season, join us to learn more about and support AMANESER’s life-saving work!

3:30 - 5:00 PM EST

675 3rd Ave, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10017

Are you a boba-loving-transportation-nerd looking for just solutions to the climate crisis? Oh boy - do we have an event for you.

The transportation sector is a key driver in the climate crisis, comprising about a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the consequences of climate change will endanger transportation infrastructure by increasing the severity and frequency of extreme weather events. To meet the moment, it is critical that policymakers and industry leaders make drastic, near-term changes to decarbonize the sector and move toward clean, sustainable transportation solutions.

This panel will bring together civil society and policy experts working to address the negative climate and environmental justice impacts of our current transportation infrastructure with a particular emphasis on skyrocketing emissions from the ecommerce sector.

Doors at 7 PM EST

Event starts at 8 PM EST

Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

When it comes to climate change, there’s an important question we don’t ask often enough: What if we get it right? Let’s flip the apocalyptic script. To joyously explore this topic, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson will host in conversation Jade Begay, Indigenous rights and climate policy strategist, and Colette Pichon Battle, attorney and climate justice organizer. Ayana will ask her guests, and you, to envision the world we could build if we charge ahead with the plethora of solutions we have at our fingertips. How the heck can we start these societal transformations and reel climate possibilities into being?

3:00 - 5:00 PM EST

29-35 9th Ave, New York, NY 10014

Join us for an unforgettable afternoon as we gather to honor and elevate the power of expression, unity, and civil disobedience in the Environmental Justice movement. In Season of Dissent, we spotlight voices at the forefront of the fight for environmental justice and democracy, centering the essential freedoms of expression and assembly. Counterstream is thrilled to host powerful stories from activists and organizers who have taken bold stands against environmental injustices that threaten their communities and our shared future. Hear their stories of resistance, resilience, and creativity as they use art, protest, and unity to defend our collective rights.

12:00 - 1:30 PM EST

Tishman Auditorium

63 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003

This Event has reached capacity for now. You can join the waitlist here, and as seats open up, we will add names from the waitlist based on the order in which we receive your request. All event attendees and waitlist registrants will receive a video recording of the event.

To navigate our current climate reality, we must imagine a better climate future. Join visionaries Stacey Abrams (Rewiring America) and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Urban Ocean Lab) for an in-depth conversation about imagining better futures, finding hope and motivation for continued action, and where climate solutions are already taking root. Esteemed multi-disciplinary artist Aisha Shillingford (Intelligent Mischief) will guide an interactive visioning exercise to help us collectively articulate the climate futures we want and how we can start building them now.

9:00 AM - 9:00 PM EST

The Forum at Columbia University

601 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027

This summit is a powerful convening of climate justice leaders from around the world, focusing on global collaboration and knowledge exchange. This summit aims to catalyze global collaboration to drive progress on climate justice, particularly across the following themes: Climate Governance and Inclusive Decision-Making, Sustainable Cities and Food Systems, Loss and Damage, and Nature-based Solutions. Discussions will feature frontline communities, land defenders, international policymakers, researchers, funders, and BIPOC climate justice leaders.

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM EST

Starr Foundation Hall

The New School University Center Room UL102

63 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003

The International Rights of Nature Tribunal will convene at Climate Week in New York to address the global challenges posed by the fossil fuel industry. This session aims to amplify the Rights of Nature as a crucial tool in defending life on Earth – featuring testimony from frontline community representatives and expert panels. The Tribunal will scrutinize the fossil fuel industry’s impacts on biodiversity and BIPOC communities and advocate for a just and clean transition by keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Join us in this pivotal moment as we pave the way toward COP30 in Brazil.

March starts at 2:00 PM ET, meet up at 1:15 PM ET

City Clerk's Office, 141 Worth St, New York, NY 10013

On September 20, 2024 thousands of people will march in New York City for a Global Climate Strike to demand action from governments to end the era of fossil fuels.

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.

12:00 - 2:00 PM EST

Wolff Conference Room

Albert and Vera List Academic Center, room D11036

6 E 16th Street, New York, NY 10003

As a prelude to Climate Week, the Tishman Environment Design Center will host our visiting scholar Kali Akuno for a second lunch and learn. Kali will build upon the last session by expanding on the Build and Fight Formula that Cooperation Jackson utilizes in its mission to build just communities in Jackson, MS. 

As an environmental justice leader, Kali is working on a transformative book, The Build and Fight Formula. With this text, Kali aims to provide strategic suggestions for social movements in the US and beyond. These suggestions focus on building participatory democracy from the grassroots level and altering the commodity form of production to regenerate social relations. Ultimately, this transformation aims to end various forms of exploitation and extraction and reposition our communities in the right relationship with our ecologies. Kali's work is not just inspiring but also offers hope for a better future.

1:00 - 2:30 PM EST

Online (Zoom)

Join us for our annual Sustainability Town Hall to discuss and review this year’s campus sustainability work. The Tishman Environment and Design Center and The New School’s Buildings department would love to hear from you about composting in the cafeteria, the Demand Response Program, and any other environmental and climate-related issues on your mind. 

The town hall will be facilitated by Ashley Kossakowski, Director of Energy Management and Sustainability in the Buildings Department, and Mike Harrington, Director of Sustainability Engagement at the Tishman Environment and Design Center. 

1:00 - 2:30 PM EST

Online (Zoom)

What does it mean to build ethical alignment in the knowledge economy? How do university practitioners best uplift local knowledge without extraction? How can we train students and change-makers to be leaders and champions for justice through 2060 and beyond?

The Building Climate Justice Leadership panel discussion will address these critical questions, aiming to advance thinking and action related to the growing and supporting the future of climate justice leadership. The event will have a panel discussion and then open for Q&A with webinar participants. We hope you will join us.

NEW TIME AND LOCATION

7:00-8:45 PM EST

Kellen Auditorium, 

66 5th Ave, NY, NY 10011

Bhopal is the Hiroshima of the petrochemical industry.

This December 3rd, 2024, marks the 40th anniversary of the 1984 Bhopal disaster when a poorly maintained pesticide factory leaked a massive cloud of chemical gas into Bhopal, a densely populated Indian city. The negligence of Union Carbide along with the governments of the United States of America and India directly contributed to this ongoing crisis.

Frontline environmental justice communities in the U.S. share a joint fight and understanding with those in Bhopal, India. The Bhopal struggle for corporate accountability mirrors struggles in Louisiana and West Virginia against Dow Chemical and other multinational corporations for decades of environmental injustices from petrochemical production. It has been close to 40 years since the disaster and those who struggle in Bhopal stand alongside survivors of numerous other chemical disasters that are still fighting to protect their community, like those impacted by the Trinity atom bomb tests in New Mexico to East Palestine, Ohio. The environmental justice movement is global. 

We are in a climate emergency, and now more than ever we need to end the era of fossil fuels and advance solutions to ensure a healthy and just planet for current and future generations! 

As global leaders gather in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit and General Assembly, we are calling on governments to reckon with their role in fueling climate chaos, and harm against communities and the planet by continuing the extraction of fossil fuels. We only have a limited amount of years left to address and mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

Climate mitigation policies are among the most urgent and politically viable pathways to realize EJ gains in the form of co-pollutant mitigation. There are a variety of climate mitigation policies in place across the country and while these climate policies seek to reduce GHG emissions, they rarely, if ever, target or track the location-specific reduction of GHG emissions, and they neglect co-pollutants or simply assume that a concomitant reduction in co-pollutants will occur.

We all want fresh air to breathe.  Good jobs for our families. A planet where our lands and oceans thrive.

​But the more oil, gas, and coal we burn, the more toxic air we breathe; the more heatwaves, fires, and floods we face. All while wealthy fossil fuel CEOs rake in record profits from dirty practices that pollute our communities. 

​President Biden has the power to stop them by putting an end to the expansion of fossil fuels -- ensuring that we all have clean air and water, and better health and safety for our communities. 

We deserve a world free from fossil fuels. This is our chance, and Biden's opportunity, to break free from fossil fuels and build a just and safe future.

Bridging commitment to action. The Justice40 Initiative and the Inflation Reduction Act embody the current national commitment to environmental justice aiming to tackle a legacy of disinvestment and pollution in overburdened, underserved, and disadvantaged communities. More than one year into their signature into law can provide great insights into lessons learned, gaps, and opportunities to accomplish their goals.

Discussions will feature Administration and federal agency representatives and BIPOC climate justice leaders. Topics feature will include national climate justice implementation strategies and the roles of people, policy, pedagogy, and philanthropies in delivering them.

EJ Tours are an important way we can gain a greater understanding of environmental justice issues in practice. By visiting with grassroots community based organizations in these two EJ communities we have a unique opportunity to get a deeper sense of EJ work in practice. The tours are a chance to physically experience and be immersed in the spaces that EJ communities call home and to enrich your appreciation for the many dimensions of what makes each community special. These tours are not meant to be voyeuristic - they are invitations to practice building community with EJ groups we will be committed to working with over the course of the semester and I will be committed to beyond this semester. This initial touch point gives you a chance to learn about EJ in an experiential way but to also reflect on your own commitments and connectedness to these places.

For American architect and filmmaker Eric Franklin Romeo, better understanding the nuances of the environments that surround us has always served as a primer to designing within it. Over the last five years he has been observing the forgotten and underestimated areas of New York City through the moving lens of film.

It is evident in these times that climate change is a serious crisis, with serious consequences. The potential mental health impacts are being seen in people of all ages, all around the world. It can be difficult to navigate these feelings and find spaces to process them. In this workshop, Marisa will identity some of the ways that bearing witness to environmental destruction may effect one’s mental health and will help attendees to feel less alone in this experience. She will also provide guidance and suggestions for managing these, at times overwhelming, emotions.