Are you campaigning for a better energy system for people and the climate? Would you like to link up with other activists and explore how your campaigning can support each other?

This is the first of two event planned to help us draw collectively on our varied activist and organising backgrounds, to build an effective movement for a decarbonised energy system and for energy justice for workers and communities. A second in-person meeting will take place early next year (date to be announced) to build on and develop the work.

• Connect and network to build visibility and wider support for specific struggles - for example against new nuclear, biomass, carbon capture or new fossil fuels – and identify common demands and strategies
• Explore how climate activists can support workers' just transition demands; seek to identify collectively the needed elements of a movement for energy justice that brings workers, communities and activists together
• Explore how different and complementary tactics and approaches can support each othe

SCHEDULE

10.30 - Intro to the day
10.40 - 11.45 - Plenary: overview of government energy strategy and plans, including transition pland for workers, technologies and finance/subsidies, with speakers to set the scene

• Suzanne Jeffery (Chair, Campaign Against Climate Change and CACC Trade Union Group)
• Paul Atkin (Greener Jobs Alliance
• Pete Cannell (Scot E3: Employment, Energy, Environment)
• Tony Staunton (CND)
• Ellen Robottom (Campaign Against Climate Change)
• Q+A/Comments

11.45 - 12 - break

12 - 1pm - Discussion groups: what does a decarbonised and equitable energysystem look like and encompass, and what are the barries and issues that need to be addressed in our campaigns and organising?

1pm - 1.45 - Break

1.45 - 2.45 - Intro to some of the campaigns happening currently and the different approaches adopted, with speakers:

• Ruby Earle (Platform)
• Nicky Crosby (HyNot: Campaign against HyNet CCS/hydrogen greenwash)
• Cordelia and Lisa: Insure our Future/Insure our Survival campaigns and NVDA)
• Molly and Ellen (Stop Burning Trees Coalition)
• Chris Wilson (Together Against Sizewell C).
• Q+A/Comments

2.45 - 3pm Break

3pm - 4pm Discussion- complementary strategies, alliances, solidarity between different actors (unions, site- and issue-based campaigns, movement activists, community projects). How to bring together our strengths and experiences and identify key demands to build a powerful movement.

4pm - 4.30pm -plenary: where do we go from here; what are the priorities for further work; who else do we need in the room; what do we need from our next (in-person) strategy day?

Note: the next, in-person, energy campaigns strategy day will be in Leeds on 1st February 2025. You can register for this at https://actionnetwork.org/ticketed_events/energy-campaigns-strategy-day

A bit of suggested pre-reading - absolutely not compulsory, but you are encouraged to share this as widely as possible when you have the chance Carbon capture and storage and hydrogen - basic briefing