Date: Wednesday, September 25

Time: 4:45 PM - 8:00 PM EDT

Location: 777 United Nations Plaza, New York

On September 25th, join us at the UN Church Center for a powerful forum organized by the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). Hear from influential women leaders like Federal Deputy Celia Xakriaba, Casey Camp-Horinek, Jacqui Patterson, and others on the frontlines of the climate crisis as they discuss ending the era of fossil fuels and implementing solutions for a Just Transition.

This is an in-person during Climate Week in New York City for an inspiring and strategic WECAN forum, “Women on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis: Ending the Era of Fossil Fuels and Implementing Solutions.”​

​During this in-person forum, 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!

​Confirmed speakers, with more to be announced soon:

• Federal Deputy Célia Xakriabá (Xakriabá), Member of the Brazil Chamber of Deputies from Minas Gerais State, and Co-founder of The National Association of Indigenous Ancestral Women Warriors (ANMIGA)

• Casey Camp Horinek (Ponca Nation), Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator

• Jacqui Patterson, Founder and Executive Director of The Chisholm Legacy Project, 2024 TIME Women of the Year, Earth Award recipient

• Secretary Puyr Tembé (Tembé), the first Secretary of Indigenous Peoples of the State of Pará in Brazil, and Co-founder of The National Association of Indigenous Ancestral Women Warriors (ANMIGA)

• Roishetta Ozane, Founder of Vessel Project of Louisiana and Gulf Fossil Finance Coordinator for the Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund

• Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation), Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action

• Tzeporah Berman, Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

• With moderation and comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)

Date: Wednesday, September 25,

Time: 11 AM – 5 PM EDT

Location: Elsie Rooftop, 1412 Broadway, New York
Organizers: Commission Project and co-hosts: Asia Pacific Movement on Debt & Development, CIEL, Ford Foundation, Global Climate & Health Alliance, GreenFaith, GWL Voices, Oak Foundation, Parliamentarians 4FFF, FFNP
Register here

Date: Monday, September 23

Time: 1 - 5:30pm EDT

Location: 63 5th Avenue University Center, UL102 New York, NY 10003 United States

All in person attendees must register on Eventbrite. Space is limited.

Please join the waitlist if tickets are sold out, we will be accepting more registrants over time.

For VIRTUAL access, please register for the Zoom livestream here

As You Sow and Carbon Tracker are proud to present a Climate Finance Day as part of NYC Climate Week 2024 on Monday, September 23rd from 1 pm - 5:30 pm ET.

Climate Finance Day will bring together leading financial experts, investors, corporates, and advocates to engage in discussions, exchange ideas, and foster collaborations to find solutions. Don’t miss our last session – an expose on extreme weather and food, with a special tasting menu of foods threatened by climate change.

The day will include a diverse array of panels and speakers, covering the following topics: Overvalued Oil; Responding to the Anti-ESG Crusade; the Win-Win of Addressing Portfolio Risk and Fiduciary Duty; and a curated tasting event.

6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal, 1st session: The End of the Fossil Fuel Era

Date: Sunday, September 22

Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM EDT

Location: The New School Starr Foundation Hall, University Center Room UL102

63 Fifth Ave, New York

This Tribunal session for the End of the Fossil Fuel Era aims to expose the insufficiency, ambiguity, and structural limitations in achieving the 1.5° goal established in the Paris Agreement. Despite the lack of a phase-out agenda from governments, which continue to expand fossil fuel extraction under the guise of false solutions to the climate crisis, frontline communities worldwide continue to suffer from the destruction and pollution of their lands and water systems. The Tribunal session will highlight violations of the rights of Nature and Nature Defenders, demonstrating that a just and clean transition is viable by keeping oil underground, especially in biodiverse areas like Yasuní, and stopping further fossil fuel extraction. Additionally, the session will introduce the next Tribunal session, which will unveil that the energy transition and post-extractivism cannot rely on mining as a solution.

The Tribunal will convene frontline community representatives from around the world to provide testimony and present evidence. This event will not only bring international scrutiny and pressure to bear on the fossil fuel industry but also create a powerful opportunity for Indigenous Peoples and frontline communities fighting the same industry to come together, exchange knowledge and experiences, and build strategies for resistance.

The Tribunal will feature case presentations, expert panels, and deliberation sessions open to public and media engagement.

Cases from End of Fossil Fuels Era Tribunal:

1. False solutions (Carbon markets, geoengineering, net zero)
2. Fossil fuel infrastructure expansion and impacts
3. Sacrifice Zones

Solutions and voices of land defenders - Rights of Nature:
1. Yasuní
2. Keystone XL Pipeline
3. Just transition