⟟ RAISING HOPE CONFERENCE FOR LAUDATO SI’ (ROME, ITALY)
Week of October 6, 2025
At the Raising Hope Conference for Laudato Si’, Taproot Earth joined faith and movement leaders advancing land return, debt justice, and collective governance for repair.
Taproot Earth joined the Laudato Si’ Raising Hope Conference to deepen alignment between faith-based movements and the work of Global Climate Reparations. Across this convening, leaders lifted up the intertwined calls for land return, debt cancellation, and collective governance as vital acts of ecological and spiritual repair. The gathering marked a visible shift within global faith communities toward a horizon of repair and renewal, where repair replaces extraction and co-governance restores balance. From bishops naming the right of peoples to remain on their lands to networks modeling how resources can flow back to those most impacted, the conversations affirmed what communities across the Global South have long known: justice begins with return.
The closing water ceremony, where participants mingled waters from their homelands, honored the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor, linking sacred ritual with the ongoing movement for repair that began with the Frontline People’s Jubilee Council and continues flowing toward Belém.
⟟ THE UNITED NATIONS FORUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY AND LAW (GENEVA, SWITZERLAND)
Week of October 12, 2025
At the United Nations Forum on Human Rights, Democracy & Law, Taproot Earth uplifted reparations as the foundation of climate justice and a path to transform global democracy.
At the UN Forum on Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, Taproot's Colette Pichon-Battle joined global leaders to center reparations as essential to addressing the climate crisis. Speaking on a panel on systemic transformation, Taproot emphasized that democracy cannot thrive on a planet shaped by extraction and inequity, and that Global Climate Reparations offer a framework for rebuilding governance rooted in accountability and liberation. This gathering came on the heels of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change, providing a timely platform to link human rights, climate action, and the moral and legal imperative of repair. From Geneva to the Gulf South, the work remains clear: climate justice requires structural change that redistributes power to frontline communities.
By naming reparations as both a remedy and a right, Taproot Earth helped expand the conversation from policy to possibility, grounding global dialogue in the lived realities and leadership of those most impacted, communities whose visions for repair continue to flow toward Belém.
⟟ THE JUBILEE OF POPULAR MOVEMENTS (ROME, ITALY)
Week of October 20, 2025
Taproot Earth joined the Jubilee of the Popular Movements in Rome, Italy to support and advance repair-centered frontline solutions rooted in land, labor, and lodging justice.
Taproot Earth joined frontline leaders from five continents at the Jubilee of the Popular Movements to advance justice around the three T’s: Tierra (Land), Techo (Lodging), and Trabajo (Labor), rights named by Pope Leo XIV and faith leaders as sacred to human dignity. Hosted at Spin Time Labs, the official gathering of the Catholic Church united popular movements to share lived experiences of organizing and to magnify reparative calls to action. Taproot supported language justice and co-facilitated the English commission on Tierra (Land), helping anchor the conversation in Global Climate Reparations as a framework for repair-centered frontline solutions. Building on our earlier Jubilee Convening held with Spin Time Labs and Mediterranea Saving Humans, we lifted up the right to remain, migrate, and return as frontline demands.
Together and alongside popular movements, we affirmed that repair must replace extraction and that the path toward climate justice flows through accountability, redistribution, and the leadership of those most impacted.
GCR Fellow Micheline Mwendike Kamate also addressed the press at a conference held ahead of the gathering. These shared calls for repair were later lifted up during an audience with the Pope, who affirmed the Church’s responsibility to stand with frontline communities.
⟟ BLACK CLIMATE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT (SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO)
Week of October 27, 2025
Over 50 Black organizers and GCR Fellows from 28 countries gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico to deepen a shared commitment to Black liberation through Global Climate Reparations. Grounded in rest, ritual, and joy, the summit became a living practice of repair.
From the Niger Delta to the Deep South to Madagascar, more than 50 Black organizers and GCR Fellows from 20 countries came together in San Juan, Puerto Rico for the 2025 Black Climate Leadership Summit. The gathering offered many a rare witnessing of the vastness of Blackness in one room, bringing together different ethnicities, tribes, religions, and disciplines in one Black space of connection, reflection, and joy. Rooted in Global Climate Reparations, participants expanded their language toolkit, interrogating their own and one another’s definitions while co-creating new ones reflective of the room. Attendees connected and together, explored how repair begins, what it requires, and how it can be realized through the creation of accountable systems grounded in collective self-governance and care.
The framework of Global Climate Reparations guided conversation, linking Black liberation to Indigenous sovereignty and ecological balance. Each attendee also received access to wellness services, part of a deliberate insistence on rest as resistance and repair. For many, the experience was a homecoming, a reminder that freedom begins with belonging and that repair is both personal and collective.
⟟ A GLIMPSE AT TAPROOT'S GLOBAL FINANCE REPORT (UNITED STATES)
Week of November 3, 2025
A bold reimagining of climate finance rooted in repair, this Executive Summary calls for a Liberation Economy that shifts power to frontline communities advancing Global Climate Reparations.
The Executive Summary, "Toward a Liberation Economy of Climate Finance," invites readers into a transformative vision of what climate finance can become when it is grounded in repair, care, and shared abundance. Building on the principles of Global Climate Reparations, this Executive Summary reframes climate finance as a tool for justice and collective wellbeing.
In the four-page summary, Taproot Earth calls for a shift away from an extraction economy of scarcity toward a liberation economy of abundance. A liberation economy is one where frontline, Black, and Indigenous communities guide how resources flow to foster care and collective thriving.
This vision offers a glimpse into Taproot Earth’s forthcoming Climate Finance Report, to be released in 2026. The longer report will expand this framework to show what a liberation economy can feel like. Together with the Global Climate Reparations framework and the insights shared from the 2025 Jubilee Convening, this Executive Summary invites readers to imagine climate finance as a tool for redistributing power and building a future where wealth supports thriving communities.
