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Transforming Global Economies for People, Planet, and a Just Transition - Climate Week NYC 2023

  • Center for Earth Jurisprudence 6441 East Colonial Drive Orlando, FL, 32807 United States (map)

As part of Climate Week NYC 2023:

During this event, global women leaders will spotlight alternative economic models, solutions, and frameworks that are predicated on community-led solutions, feminist economics, Indigenous knowledge, and ancient concepts of reciprocity with the Earth and all living beings.

Topics include land rematriation and Land Back, care economy, post-growth, Buen Vivir, and much more. There are alternative economies to learn from and an emergence of socially just, place-based, caring economic and ecologically enhancing models that are structuring a path forward for people and planet.

Speakers include:

Monique Verdin (Houma Nation), WECAN Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator in the Gulf South, Turtle Island, USA;

Ruth Nyambura, African Ecofeminist Collective, Kenya;

Nati Greene, Global Coordinator and Co-founder of the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, Ecuador;

Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Climate Policy Program Director, Roosevelt Institute, Turtle Island/USA;

Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of The Club of Rome, Belgium;

Margaret Kwateng, Campaign Lead National Organizer, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Turtle Island/USA;

Moderation and comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director, WECAN.

For more information and to register for this virtual event, click HERE.