2023 Global Climate Jobs Conference

In the 2023 Global Climate Jobs Conference we want to join together everyone who wants to take part in the challenging but pressuring task of building social power to stop climate change. We want to move from policy discussions to action. We seek to set a conference for frank and ambitious discussions on working-class organizing, alliance and movement building and political strategy, towards Climate Jobs and Ecological Unionism.

YOUR CONTRIBUTION IS VERY IMPORTANT

Help us create a space for the conference - from 20€
With your donation you will help cover the rent for the venue, stationary and translation costs.

Support food for 1 person - from 35€
With this donation you will cover food for 1 conference participant (3 x lunch + 2 x dinner).

Solidarity with global south participants - from 100€
Make it possible for a person from the global south to participate in the conference. Your donation will go to travel compensation and VISA costs. 

We are living through a cost of living crisis and worsening housing, energy and climate crises. Billionaires and corporations are getting wealthier while working people cannot get by. Growing social despair risks driving people into the hands of right-wing extremists. Amidst these crises, there are opportunities for advancing progressive politics. We believe Climate Jobs & Ecological Unionism are paths out of this crisis.

The status quo is not providing real solutions to these crises. Left and progressive movements need to fill this vacuum and organize for radically progressive policies that widen its support and build social power.

From Green New Deals to Climate Jobs, many blueprints for just transitions and socioeconomic and ecological transformations have been put forward. But we are failing to build powerful social movements around these ideas while their labels are now being used to promote green capitalism.

As so, the Global Climate Jobs Network is hosting a conference from October 6th to 8th in the Netherlands.

At the 2023 Global Climate Jobs Conference, we will bring together everyone who wants to take part in the challenging but pressuring task of building social power to stop climate change. We want to move from policy discussions to action. We seek to set a conference for frank and ambitious discussions on working-class organizing, alliance and movement building and political strategy, towards Climate Jobs and Ecological Unionism.

We will host open and frank discussions about radically just policies, about the future of working class organizing, about alliance building between climate, labour and social movements, and about goals and political strategy and organizing. A conference based on the acknowledgment that without a radical restructuring of our economy we will fail to deliver a just transition and climate justice. A conference to build the social power that can stop climate change. 

 
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As we are asking for your financial contribution, we find it important to be transparent about what we want to use your contribution for. As so, below you can find the overview of the budget for the conference.

Besides from collecting donations in this platform, there is a small team of volunteers applying for funding. Furthermore, we will also challenge ourselves to find ways to cover the minimum essential expenses, finding creative and community-based ways. However, some things involve purchases and costs that you just can't avoid.

It is key for us to guarantee funding to support travel costs ensure the participation of global south participants, grassroots activist, and other activist whose financial situation requires them to have have financial support. We wish for this conference to be build on the basis of solidarity, and do not want participants to restrain from attending the conference due to financial reasons. As so, we hope for everyone's contribution within your possibilities. 

The current budget is:

Total: 73.900€

Your contribution is very important for us to cover these costs!

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 Note: Climáximo is hosting this Open Collective project to collect donations to support the 2023 Global Climate Jobs Conference. Climáximo has been one of the organizations launching the Portuguese Climate Jobs Campaign, in 2016. The portuguese campaign is part of the Global Climate Jobs Network.