Greenpeace Roots (Room E1)

Have you ever felt anxious, exhausted, upset, pressured, or sad in your circles of activism? Saving the planet is an empowering, exciting, and super motivating mission, but it can also burn us out, and sometimes it feels like it’s all too big. In this workshop, we’ll work on how activism moves us, as well as the ways in which it can burn us out and cause damage. Collectively, we’ll build care and resilience strategies to ensure we’re looking after ourselves and our community, and that our activism is happy, joyful, and of course fun!

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Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (Room E3)

Workshop organized by two activists from the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, a coalition of indigenous and local communities from the Amazon Basin, Brazil, Indonesia, Mesoamerica and the Congo Basin. Together we represent forest peoples in 24 countries, protecting more than 958 million hectares of tropical forests.

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#StopEACOP Campaign (Room D5)

Stretching for nearly 1,445 kilometers, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) would have disastrous consequences for local communities, for wildlife and for the entire planet – we have to stop it. 

The project threatens to displace thousands of families and farmers from their land. It poses significant risks to water resources and wetlands in both Uganda and Tanzania – including the Lake Victoria basin, which over 40 million people rely upon for drinking water and food production. The pipeline would rip through numerous sensitive biodiversity hotspots, and risk significantly degrading several nature reserves crucial to the preservation of threatened elephant, lion and chimpanzee species.

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Eco anxiety: climate change between activism and fear (Room D4)

It is possible to feel a sense of true dismay, aware of the disastrous effects that even the simplest everyday actions are having on the future of the planet and generations to come. This workshop will discuss strategies that could be used to reduce the effects of eco-anxiety on the lives and health of people, both those directly exposed to drastic environmental changes and those suffering from media exposure to them.

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Occupy: End Fossil Now! (Room E5)

Between September and December 2022, the youth movement for climate justice will occupy hundreds of schools and universities around the world. We will not relent until we have reached the end of the fossil fuel era. The youth movement has shown its strength in recent years, but emissions continue to rise as the time to act shrinks. The climate justice movement has the power to change the world and the youth movement has the power to end fossil fuels now. The fossil fuel industry is one of the most important pillars of the system. If we dismantle it, we can pave the way to stop climate change and ensure a just transition for all peoples.

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SOS Mediterranee and Mediterranea (Room D3)

Climate refugees and the Central Mediterranean: How are the people who are, mostly because of the climate crisis, already fleeing across the Mediterranean being received and rescued? This will be discussed with SOS Mediterranee, a Franco-German-Swiss non-profit humanitarian non-governmental organisation whose aim is to conduct search and rescue operations at sea in the Mediterranean Sea region, and Mediterranea, a platform of civil society realities founded to monitor the situation in the Mediterranean and to rescue people in distress there.

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The resilience of the forest (Room E2)

Workshop with Giorgio Vacchiano (Researcher at University of Milan), ZeroCo2 and VAIA - NGOs on the true potenial of forests in tackling the climate crisis. We discuss this starting with Giorgio Vacchiano's book 'The Resilience of the Forest', an essay that talks about plants, woods, forests, but above all about us, about how we will be able to imagine our future in relation to the environment that surrounds us.

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Survival International (Room F4)

Survival International is a movement of people from over 100 different countries. Our vision is a world in which indigenous peoples are respected as contemporary societies and their human rights protected. We exist to prevent the extermination of indigenous peoples and offer them a stage from which to address the world to denounce the genocidal violence, slavery and racism they suffer every day. By putting pressure on those in power, we help defend the lives, lands and future of peoples who should have the same rights as other contemporary societies.

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New European Taxonomy and the financial greenwashing (Room D2)

Workshop with BancaEtica and Legambiente on the consequences of the new taxonomy on the financial world and the role of these institutions in the ecological transition. The European Commission and the European Parliament included fossil gas in the taxonomy in June. This inclusion has been strongly criticised by scientists and experts, and will have a very negative impact on the path to decarbonisation. Despite this, for several months many European environmental organizations have been fighting to oppose this choice.