Summit on Global Climate Equity & Canada’s Fair Share

In a time of great political and ecological uncertainty, it is critical for Canadian civil society to build shared values of internationalism and solidarity, drawing from decades of wisdom and hard-won gains by people’s movements around the world.

For those working towards climate, ecological and economic justice in Canada, we must examine the Canadian government’s role in the climate crisis internationally.

To engage and act on these issues, we invite you to Canada’s Fair Share: a Summit on Global Climate Equity. This (mostly) virtual summit will bring together scholars, policy experts, campaigners and activists working towards climate justice. Through panels and workshops, we will build a shared understanding towards a progressive internationalist vision, and onwards towards a collective set of movement demands and campaigns for global climate equity.

An important inflection point in this ongoing conversation is the UN COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan in November, where world leaders will gather to negotiate a new collective goal for climate finance. But we face many other barriers to global climate equity, including outdated global financial architecture that constrains climate action, rising geopolitical tensions and the concerning rise of fascism around the world.

Our conversation will focus on three key issues:

• Climate Finance - Canada's historical and ongoing role in global climate governance, and current demands from global climate movements.
• Trade and tax justice - exploring financial levers for global equity, including trade reform and progressive tax instruments.
• Financial Institutions and Debt - examining Canada's role in global financial institutions, and exploring calls for debt justice.

Hosted by the Climate Emergency Unit and the Padma Centre for Climate Justice from the unceded and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations in what is recently known as Vancouver.

October 28th will have the in-person Kickoff Party, and the next two days have virtual sessions on various topics.