Amazon Watch is honored to be participating in the International Women’s Earth & Climate Summit which will take place on September 20th – 23rd in New York. The Summit will bring together 100 global women leaders from 35 countries including grassroots activists, economists, scientists, businesswomen, indigenous leaders, policy-makers, faith leaders, culture shapers to help further a Women’s Climate Action Agenda to build momentum for substantive action on meaningful policy changes necessary to address the global climate crisis.
You are encouraged to watch and participate in the Summit from wherever you are. To follow via live stream, go to the IWECI YouTube Channel and join the discussion in the Comments section. Subscribe to the IWECI YouTube Channel while you are there and you’ll get all the latest updates of Summit sessions!
Amazon Watch Founder and Executive Director and our special guests from the Amazon, Mayalú Txucarramãe and Patricia Gualinga will join Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary to the UNFCCC; Marina Silva, former Brazilian Minister of Environment; Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland; Dr. Jane Goodall, Dame of the British Empire, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Messenger of Peace; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams; Dr. Sylvia Earle, marine biologist; May Boeve, 350.org Executive Director; Dr. Vandana Shiva and leaders from Global Gender Climate Alliance, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), 1 Million Women, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and other grassroots organizations. See a full list of Summit delegates here.
We encourage you to watch Atossa, Mayalu and Patricia live at the following times:
Saturday, September 21st
11:15 am, Plenary 3: Voices of the Forest
Mayalu Txcarranmãe is the 1st speaker
1:15 pm, Plenary 4: Our Bodies on the Frontlines: Fossil Fuel Resistance Campaigns
Atossa Soltani is the 3rd speaker
Sunday, September 22nd
9:45 am, Plenary 6: How We Live: Rights of Nature, Community Rights, Earth Community Economy, Our Relationship to the Earth
Patricia Gualinga is the 3rd speaker
3:00 pm, Plenary 8: Breaking the Sound Barrier in the Movement Building
What are the most far reaching, “out of the box” ideas for projects, campaigns, and direct action that will get the most traction, and build our movement together?
Facilitated by Atossa Soltani and Summit Co-Directors Osprey Orielle Lake and Sally Ranney
The full Summit agenda is available here.
