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.

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.

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.

Join us for a virtual conversation on Palestinian Resistance, Climate Justice, and Liberation, “Imagining a Palestine without Occupation,” featuring Moayyad Bsharat of Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Jimmy Dunson of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, and Zayneb Al-Shalalfeh of Palestinian Women Water Practitioners Network and moderated by Yusra Bitar of Arab Reform Initiative. Interpretation will be available in Spanish, ASL, and Closed Captions.

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.

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.

The Climate Museum joins forces with Lapham’s Quarterly and the Center for Constitutional Rights to present a special screening of the 2023 eco-thriller film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Andreas Malm.

Calling all New School Community members!

Please join the official New School group in this year’s NYC Pride March on Sunday, June 25.

The first NYC Pride March was held in 1970 and has since become an annual civil rights demonstration. Over the years, NYC Pride March has broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to remember those we have lost to illness, violence and neglect.

The Environmental Justice Clinic at Vermont Law & Graduate School is delighted to announce the upcoming release of our online Environmental Justice State by State (EJSBS) law library and database. On Tuesday, April 4 from 4:30 – 5:30p (Eastern) we are hosting a webinar to preview the development version of this resource and seek feedback from our friends, colleagues, and EJ stakeholders around the country.

Please join us for a conversation about environmental justice with Dr. Ana Baptista. We’ll talk about what environmental justice is, New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Law and what it means, what’s next for the EJ movement in New Jersey, and the role that allies can play. 

Join CMEJ, Ana Baptista & Danielle Swift in discussing why zoning matters!

Zoning is one of the most important functions of city law. As zoning was established nearly 100 years ago in many cities across the country, it has historically played a major role in the segregation and concentration of unwanted polluters in lower-income and communities of color.

Join this talk by Tishman Center Faculty Grant Awardee and Parsons Faculty Daniel Michalik. This presentation will be a short "provocation" on the work he was lead over his sabbatical on regenerative systems within cork agriculture and industry and applicable lessons we may learn for other industries.

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.

Join the Center for Progressive Reform and the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice on Thursday, March 10, at 2:00 p.m. Central (3 p.m. EST) for a webinar on the proposed rollout of carbon capture and storage in Louisiana and the damaging effects it would have on overburdened and underserved communities if deployed.

The oil and gas industry has targeted Louisiana as an emerging hub for carbon capture, mainly because of the state's large concentration of industrial facilities that emit carbon dioxide. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and state regulators openly support carbon capture as a way to meet the state’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050.

With the summer of 2021 still fresh in many people’s minds, NYC’s practitioners and researchers are still navigating the challenges of extreme rain events like Hurricane Ida, which brought record-shattering amounts of rainfall causing severe flooding, loss of life, and damages to property/infrastructure. Shortly before Ida, the City released its first-ever Stormwater Resiliency Plan. With the plan, pluvial (rainfall) flood risk maps were made publicly available, filling a critical data gap. However, other types of data that are still missing may be needed to support urban resilience against flash flooding such as social media, on-site sensor networks, and other crowdsourcing tools to allow communities to report their own experiences and advocate for new interventions. The use of new data types also surface new questions regarding their potential benefits and challenges. This event will convene a conversation between researchers and practitioners concerning the challenges, needs, and opportunities presented by novel data sourcing, processing, and visualization techniques to advance urban climate resilience.

Danielle Purifoy and Louise Seamster present their conceptual framework for understanding black towns within extractive white space, highlighting questions of citizenship, extraction, and exclusion as they focus on how legal, spatial, racial, and economic systems structure black spaces’ access to infrastructure and facilitate environmental violence.

Join us for *Climate Briefing for NYC Candidates: A Just Transition and Recovery*

This briefing will provide an overview of the climate crisis in New York City, both problems and solutions, to the hundreds of candidates running for local office in 2021, including city council, mayor, comptroller, public advocate, and borough president.