Following COP29, this is the international climate gathering of 2024 to know about

Another international climate conference being held in an oil-rich nation, filled with fossil fuel lobbyists. Donald “drill baby drill” Trump winning the US election. UK climate activists being locked up for years for taking action on the biggest crisis facing humanity. Oil companies winning climate lawsuits.

And of course, devastating man made climate disasters sweeping away lives in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia – almost too many places to count.

You’d be forgiven for feeling like the climate movement is on the back foot; like the fight is just getting harder for us.

But there’s something bigger and more powerful than the Trumpian ego, or the eye watering profits of the world’s worst polluters. 

It’s hope. It’s resistance. And it should be supported, shared and amplified.

The Community Gathering for Climate Justice, 25–29 November

The Community Gathering for Climate Justice brings community leaders from around the world to the UK. 

Over the week they will exchange knowledge, share skills, and develop strategies to resist fossil fuels in their communities and demand climate justice. 

The gathering hosts people from communities in Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, Argentina, Colombia, Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Italy, the UK, the Philippines, and Guyana.

Participants include:

• Environmental lawyers working with grassroots communities to litigate against cement and chemical companies and aiming to tackle international oil companies.
• Communities fighting deadly oil and gas pollution in Iraq. 
• UK activists fighting to stop North Sea oil drilling
• Those bringing climate justice lawsuits against oil companies in the wake of devastating typhoons that have destroyed entire areas of the Philippines. 
• Fishing communities of women and young people standing up to oil companies in Senegal.
• Colombian river communities fighting fracking.

Gatherings like this are important if we want to tackle climate change in a way that works for all of us. We need to listen to and organise with as many voices as possible – especially people who are already experiencing it.

The people-powered solutions to this crisis – that both fix the problem and allow everyone to thrive – already exist. 

What’s crucial is who we listen to (like these leaders fighting for justice) and who we don’t (like fossil fuel lobbyists)…

Celebrate and support the activists fighting for all of our futures

The reach of the oil companies is global – and so are their climate crimes. But the scale and energy of the resistance should not be underestimated. 

Everywhere, all over the world, people are organising to fight back against a system of corporate power that’s destroying our only planet home.

We can win this fight.  But to do that we need to be greater than the sum of our parts. We can’t exist in a vacuum or work in silos – we are strongest when we come together. 

And every communities’ fight counts too. Each fossil fuel company held to account for their pollution, their death and devastation – is a win for all of us, wherever in the world.

Everyone who cares about climate change has a common cause. This is why these spaces are so important: sharing stories, building networks, connecting struggles. Please join us in welcoming our global community.