Sentences with phrase «youth climate justice»

The Canadian Youth Climate Coalition seeks to build and strengthen the youth climate justice movement.

The «We Have Faith Youth Climate Justice Caravan» that had over a hundred and seventy youth brought a very strong sense of unity, inspiration and joyfulness to the conference.

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Hundreds of young people of color gather to learn about climate justice and just transitions through an innovative agenda that is entirely developed and implemented by youth leaders.

The Climate Justice Youth Summit is the largest gathering of its kind in the United States.

The solutions to school pushout supported by the Dignity in Schools campaign include shifting funding from school police to counselors and social workers; funding and using transformative and restorative justice, mediation and positive interventions; ensuring that states and districts focus on school climate under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and ending the pushout and arresting of students of color, LGBTQ youth, students who are homeless, and students with disabilities.

«When you make school climate a priority, you make homeless youth feel supported; you make sure foster youth don't fall through the cracks... you make sure that 2 million students that do not have a single caring adult, have that adult in their lives,» states Alena Cotton from Fresno, a student leader with Californians for Justice.

Traveling in from Appalachia, Brazil, London, and ranging from arrested labor justice campaigners to U.N. climate negotiations youth organizers and a Deutsche Bank analyst, 140 students and young people gathered at the «Transition to a New Economy Conference,» which was an effort to create holistic alternatives to the current economic system — a discourse cracked open by Occupy Wall Street.

Farmers, unions, social organizations, indigenous peoples, women and youth (at the national, regional and global level) have come together to demand climate justice and fight against the consumerist and extractivist model that, along with the capitalism and neoliberalism systems of the modern world, is harming Mother Earth.

These cases were united by the game - changing work of youth and elders, alongside their attorneys, and the foremost climate experts of the world seeking intergenerational justice and a liveable planet for future generations.

Past Speakers Oct 2 - Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin on Fossil Fuel Divestment Oct 3 - Massimo LoBuglio, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur Oct 4 - Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and co-author of the Obama Administration's Climate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father PauClimate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Pauclimate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father PauClimate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father PauClimate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Paul Mayer

The North Carolina Climate Justice Summit is a gathering of adults and youth who all have similar concerns about climate change relating to North Carolina specifClimate Justice Summit is a gathering of adults and youth who all have similar concerns about climate change relating to North Carolina specifclimate change relating to North Carolina specifically.

Speakers: Kiran Oommen, Our Children's Trust youth plaintiff; Justin Marquez, Rhiannon Gallagher, Daisey Guadalupe Romero, ICLEI; Michael Charles, Kyle Lemle, Troy Robertson, SustainUS; Kandi Mossett, Indigenous Environmental Network; Liana Lopez, Katia Vasquez, Organizacíon Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico & Climate Justice Alliance; Milan̄ Loeak, Kathy Jetnil - Kijiner; Pacific Climate Warriors; Kathrin Henneberger, Dorothee Häußermann; Ende Gelande Moderator: Varshini Prakash, SustainUS Hosted by: ICLEI USA; 350.

Indigenous groups, labor, youth, scientists, food justice and clean water activists, religious groups, and civil rights organizations joined environmental groups in calling on world leaders attending the UN Climate Summit in New York this Tuesday to start taking real action to halt climate disrClimate Summit in New York this Tuesday to start taking real action to halt climate disrclimate disruption.

In the midst of it all, I sat down with Jessy Tolkan, who, as one of the founders of the Energy Action Coalition, the coalition of 50 youth - led environmental and social justice organizations behind Power Shift, has had a front - row seat to the evolution of the event — and the youth climate movement.

350 DC is also pushing for a local carbon rebate that would make polluters pay and reinvest revenue in our communities, and supporting Sunrise DC, a youth - led grassroots movement fighting to make climate justice a central political issue.

Film festivals have been a major part of WITNESS's parallel online and offline distribution strategy forStories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery — a series short films co-produced with Our Children's Trust that profile U.S youth who are taking legal action for climate jClimate Recovery — a series short films co-produced with Our Children's Trust that profile U.S youth who are taking legal action for climate jclimate justice.

Our delegation has been working to coordinate with other activist groups like YOUNGO (a coalition of Youth NGOs) and DCJ (Demand Climate Justice) to create an even stronger, united climate movement in the cominClimate Justice) to create an even stronger, united climate movement in the cominclimate movement in the coming week.

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Climate justice was on the agenda at the Young Friends of the Earth Europe summer camp 2015 in Brittany, north - west France, as 100 European youth gathered to discuss action plans and environmental justice in the run - up to this December's UN climate talks in Paris — theClimate justice was on the agenda at the Young Friends of the Earth Europe summer camp 2015 in Brittany, north - west France, as 100 European youth gathered to discuss action plans and environmental justice in the run - up to this December's UN climate talks in Paris — theclimate talks in Paris — the COP21.

By empowering youth to take action within a frame of justice and optimism, we are growing and strengthening the climate movement, and shifting the national discourse on climate in ways that are proven to affect public opinion and policy.

After months of advocacy by Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, on April 9 the San Francisco Board of Education unanimously approved nearly $ 1 million in funding for teacher and staff professional development on restorative justice practices, with the goal of reducing unnecessary suspensions, expulsions, school push - outs and referrals to the juvenile justice system, and improving the school climate and relationships of trust between students and faculty / staff.