From March 2 - 6, 2025, Taproot Earth convened the first-ever Frontline Peoples Jubilee Convening on Global Climate Reparations in Rome, Italy. Despite despair and challenge in our global community, the goal of this unique convening was to make the impossible- possible. Bringing together communities across borders and perspectives to address challenging conversations, Taproot Earth’s Global Facilitation Team designed and convened a pathway for climate justice and liberation to advance repair.

This required the careful gathering of faithful people across different spiritualities and practices in a radical kinship with a core belief that we must be the love that produces hope and liberation, especially in troubling times. Over 100 people hailing from 24 countries and speaking 6 distinct languages (French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and English), moved past the barriers of language, the challenges of race, the differences of religion and came to agreement around the accountability and repair needed for a just future.

The 2025 Jubilee Convening on Global Climate Reparations was catalyzed by the Catholic Church and Pope Francis’ 12 year papacy and his call for a Jubilee Year in 2025. In the Catholic Tradition, the concept of “Jubilee” has its roots in the book of Levictus (Chapter 25), as a special year of hope, renewal, pilgrimage, forgiveness of sin and debt, and reconciliation. It is a time that calls for the restoration of unbalanced relationships with God, with one another, and with all creation.

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