While much of the Climate Week in New York City centers corporate strategies, policy commitments, and technical solutions, the Sovereignty and Liberation Summit, happening Wednesday, September 23, born will center non-extractive solutions and possibilities growing from the frontlines, with truth-telling, reparative climate action and community power as connecting threads.
Black women-led and movement-rooted organizations are bringing communities, advocates, funders, legal workers, and movement leaders together to learn, build relationships, and advance climate justice. Through a mix of invitation-only gatherings and public events registered with Climate Week NYC, the Summit creates multiple pathways to exchange knowledge, resource frontline solutions, and build power across movements. Explore the day and find where you can join us.
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The Black Femme Climate Breakfast, hosted by Black Girl Kinda Green, People’s Climate Innovation Center, Ubuntu Climate Initiative, and U.S. Climate Action Network, brings multiple generations of Black women leaders together to assess this moment in the climate crisis and explore the role of the divine feminine in shaping what comes next.
Centered in the shared space will be community power, collective wisdom, and wellness of Black femme environmental leaders leading liberation work.
The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice supports organizations building power for a just transition from dirty to clean energy, with a focus on the U.S. South and multiyear, flexible funding for groups led by Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander women and gender-nonconforming leaders.
Hosted by the Hive Fund team, this invite-only funder briefing will create space for frontline leaders to speak directly with philanthropy about the realities communities are navigating, the solutions already taking shape, and what it takes to resource lasting climate justice, redistribute power, and sustain healthier, safer, more prosperous communities for generations to come.
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Frontline communities are building the infrastructure needed to strengthen resilience, defend their communities, and respond to a changing climate on their own terms. Hosted by Kataly Foundation’s Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective and Surdna Foundation, this invite-only funder briefing will bring philanthropy into direct conversation with frontline organizers about what communities are building, what they are learning, and what meaningful investment looks like to resource community-led solutions, strengthen long-term infrastructure, and sustain the power needed to meet the challenges ahead.
Hosted by Taproot Earth, the Just Transition Lawyering Network, the Global Justice Clinic and the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU Law, this three-hour gathering will bring movement leaders, legal practitioners, and frontline advocates into two connected conversations exploring how law, climate finance, and climate migration can advance pathways toward repair. Together, the sessions will examine emerging legal strategies alongside frontline approaches to building power, directing resources, and advancing the rights to remain, migrate, and return. Registration is required and closes at 5 PM ET on Monday, September 21.
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Ndjimu, also known as Deep Cobalt, is an award-winning documentary from Congolese filmmaker Petna Ndaliko Katondolo that confronts the human and environmental costs embedded at the roots of the global green energy supply chain. Hosted by Friends of the Congo and Basandja Coalition, this screening and conversation will bring attention to the communities at the source of the minerals powering the global energy transition and the realities too often obscured further along the supply chain. Together, participants will consider what a transition to a greener economy requires when justice, community power, and the people and places bearing its costs are centered.
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The Green Leadership Trust is a network of people of color serving on national and global climate and environmental boards and using their positions to advance environmental justice and equity within the institutions shaping the field.
This invite-only reception will bring members together for an evening of relationship building, information sharing, and connection, creating space to strengthen the relationships and leadership needed to shift power and advance a more just environmental movement.
