A formation of climate leadership across the global Black Diaspora.
Rooted at Taproot Earth, Taproot Noire (TN) is an international 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 welcomes leaders, organizers, and practitioners of Black and African descent committed to advancing climate justice. Apply today.
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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 key milestones marking Taproot Noire’s growth and the global Black leadership advancing climate solutions.
Converged global Black climate leaders, artists, and organizers for a transformative gathering rooted in liberation, connection, and collective power.
Advanced conversations on land, liberation, and climate migration while engaging global leaders in climate finance advocacy during NYC Climate Week and the UN General Assembly.
Expanded the Summit with an international delegation, connecting Gulf South and Global South struggles and advancing political alignment across regions.
Convened a retreat and strategy gathering centering rest, resistance, relationship-building, and shared climate solutions across the diaspora.
Launched the first Black Climate Leadership Summit during NYC Climate Week, building a national convening space for Black climate leaders.
Convened the first Global Black Leaders Social during COP29, creating a dedicated space for Black leaders to gather, connect, and affirm their identities in community.
Have a question for Taproot Noire? Contact us at noire[at]taproot.earth.
