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Climate Feminists Weekend Summer School
August 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am - August 22, 2021 @ 7:00 pm
Free – £22.15About this event
Climate Summer School and Feminist Climate Ambassadors
Weekend Summer School in the run up to COP26 United Nations Climate Conference
Programme
Day 1 August 20th 2021 Introductory afternoon
Session 1 Introductions and familiarisations
Introduction to the Climate Feminist Ambassador Project
Introduction to the Green European Foundation
Introduction to GEIClimate and The Green Economics Institute and welcome
Short Break
Session 2
Networking with all particpants in break out rooms
Introduction to the Issues about climate change
Introduction and scene setting about feminist climate issues
Session 3 Opening Plenary
Impacts of climate change on women- historical and archaeological perspectives and understandings and insights -gender impacts and intersectional impacts and implications -demographics -contraction and convergence and the SDGs- feminist perspectives – indigenous womens perspectives
Session 4 climate equity-green recovery- jobs for the boys- sharing a common future- women and intersectional feminst perspectives
Session 5 -team builder and networking and social – quiz –
Session 6- common climate dinner- and impacts -music
Day 2 August 21st 2021
Session 1- networking plenary and recap day 1
Session 2- Opening Plenary
Impacts of climate change on different demographics in more detail
Meeting people around the world and the lived experience of climate change for women:
climate change, oppressions and the SDGs impacts throughout the world -case studies
Session 3- Oppressions around the world- and climate implications
Meeting people around the world and the lived experience of climate change for women:
climate change, oppressions and the SDGs impacts throughout the world -case studies
Session 4 -Exploring main stream climate narratives- women as victims- women as saviours, women as sustainable spenders- ? The theoretical background
Lunch Break
Session 5- invisible women -women at the UN- women at COP -women missing from climate negotations, from think tanks, women experts, women in the climate dialogue-
Meeting people around the world and the lived experience of climate change for women,
climate change, oppressions and the SDGs impacts throughout the world -case studies
Session 6 -Exploring lived experiences and particular challenges of women of colour, indigenous women, LGBTQ+ women, older women and other groups marginalised decision making from the climate decision making.
Session 7- women as role models, pandemic and climate, womens leadership style
Sessions- 8 -women in the climate industry, in climate finance, climate science -how they are challenging the status quo and how they are leaders today – introductions to key climate women
Session 9 – gender and feminist perspectives of green new deal, build back better, renewables, climate and green economy
Session 10 – empowering women -skills and information to take part in climate dialogue and in shaping a renewed climate future- the information and reports we need.
Day 3 August 22nd 2021
Session 1 -Networking and recap
Session 2- Opening Plenary – Introducing the COP United Nations Climate Event and our plans and how we can each plan to make a difference
Session 3 Enabling us to take part in climate leadership -the tools, the info, the skills, empowering us all. The GEI plans for COP26 and UN plans for COP26. Opportunities, strengths, weaknesses and threats.
Session 4- climate change, oppressions and the SDGs impacts throughout the world -case studies
Lunch Break
Session 5- the law and how to use it- the issues for women and gender – the institutional framework of climate change.
Lecturer- Professor Alexandra Harrington
Session 6- Fish bowl takeaways and thoughts and outputs.
Session 7- Closing plenary and plans for the next sessions and COP 26 Glasgow and Kunming, China- next steps and take aways.