A global formation of climate leadership across the Black Diaspora.
Rooted at Taproot Earth, Taproot Noire (TN) is global formation connecting Black leaders across the global Black diaspora to support and to strengthen global Black leadership in the climate movement.
Recognizing that Black communities have long stewarded land, water, and energy systems while bearing disproportionate climate harm, the Taproot Noire network seeds and advances climate solutions rooted in frontline knowledge, cultural memory, and collective care.
Taproot Noire brings together leaders, organizers, and practitioners of Black and African advancing climate justice. Share your interest through our survey.
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Taproot Noire creates space for connection, strategy-sharing, and collective learning among Black climate leaders working across various regions and contexts. This formation uplifts and exchanges:
Models of collective self-governance and self-determination
Collaborative stewardship practices protecting land, water, and food systems
Solutions and strategies rooted in local control
Replicable frontline solutions emerging from lived experience
By connecting leaders across borders, Taproot Noire shifts the political lines that separate toward connection points that advance frontline solutions, culturally grounded, politically informed, and scalable without extraction.
Taproot Noire is global, linking Black leaders across Africa, the Americas, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America and the global Black diaspora. This formation centers frontline communities navigating climate impacts shaped by colonialism, racial capitalism, and resource extraction.
Taproot Noire works because it recognizes that frontline solutions already exist and that global Black leadership is essential to shaping climate futures rooted in repair rather than exploitation.
This formation advances Taproot Earth’s #WeChooseNow initiative by advocating for communities most impacted by climate harm to lead the response, implementing tangible elements to achieving Global Climate Reparations.
We honor, strengthen and connect the wisdom already in motion across the global Black Diaspora. As the original Peoples of the planet, members of Taproot Noire have a leading role to play in achieving Climate Justice.
Explore moments marking Taproot Noire’s growth, gatherings and the global Black leadership advancing climate solutions.
The fourth Black Climate Leadership Summit was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Boriken) convening Black climate leaders, movement builders, artists, organizers, and technical experts from across the global Black diaspora for a transformative gathering rooted in liberation, connection, and collective power.
The third Black Climate Leadership Summit explored the intersections of land and Black liberation by addressing climate migration. Held at NYC Climate Week, members participated in climate finance panels and the UN General Assembly sessions to advocate for a better approach to supporting the climate frontlines.
The second Black Climate Leadership Summit was held in New York City with an international delegation to begin connecting the issues from the Gulf South to the Global South to begin conversations on network political alignment.
In Tarrafal, Cape Verde, Taproot Noire convened a Black Climate Leaders Retreat and safe, skill-building space to practice resistance through rest, community-building and information exchange on climate solutions.
Taproot Noire launched the inaugural Black Climate Leadership Summit at NYC Climate Week, inspired by discussions with members of the U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN).
Convened the first Global Black Leaders Social during COP 29 in Glasgow, Scotland, providing a safe space for Black identified individuals to come together joyfully and express their identities freely.
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