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. The topics will include climate justice implementation strategies, enabling conditions, and the roles of people, policy, pedagogy, and philanthropies in delivering them.

This special gathering is collaboratively hosted by HBCU Green Fund, Donors of Color, Columbia World Projects, ACE Observatory, Open Government Partnership, and Columbia University Climate School.