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Global Climate Jobs Conference
6 October 2023 - 8 October 2023
The Conference Program
At the 2023 Global Climate Jobs Conference, we will bring together everyone who wants to take part in the challenging but pressuring task of building social power to stop climate change. We want to move from policy discussions to action. We seek to set a conference for frank and ambitious discussions on working-class organizing, alliance and movement building and political strategy, towards Climate Jobs and Ecological Unionism.
In this conference, we will build on three pillars of questions:
- Program: What is the progressive agenda and policy proposals to face the multiple social and climate crises? What does a political program compatible with climate science and driven towards social justice looks like?
- Strategy: What do these political proposals mean to our movements and organizations strategically? What is the left plan for power? What do different organizations need from each other to build strong alliances? How will we organize to win?
- Narrative: How will we communicate our agenda? How do we show people what we are fighting for? How can we gain broad support for progressive proposals?
And these will be structured in 3 kinds of sessions: Panel Discussions (interventions by invited speakers), Plenary Sessions (open and facilitated discussions with all of the participants), and Parallel Sessions (workshops session or focus discussion proposed by participants and organizations).
The Panel Discussions will set the key questions and present some key experiences and learning, from which the parallel sessions can build on. The parallel sessions will then further develop some of the content. And plenary sessions will be used to share, amongst all participants, some of the main discussions and conclusions coming out of the parallel sessions.
On the final day (narrative) the workshop session will be focused on real cases for implementation of the learning from the previous days, and to take forward key discussions and proposals. The plenary will then allow participants to share the results of the implementation sessions.
