Energy Campaigns Strategy Day

Start: Saturday, November 9, 2024•10:30 AM

End: Saturday, November 9, 2024• 5:00 PM

Location: Swarthmore Centre•2-7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds, LS3 1AD GB

Register at 10.0 for a 10.30 start.

At this event, we aim to bring together campaigners from a wide range of areas (trade unionists, climate campaigners and activists, scientists and other experts) to build a strategy that identifies the components of a decarbonised energy system that works for everyone, and the action we will need to take to achieve it.  We will aim to have practical plans to be followed up that can both win popular support and generate the pressure needed for change.

The day will be an opportunity to
  • 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, and seek to identify collectively the needed elements of a movement for energy justice that brings workers, communities and activists together
  • Identify the labour requirements of a genuinely decarbonised and energy system and what is needed to get that labour in place
  • Bring a whole-economy, cross-sector approach to energy so as to build on intersections with struggles over economic, health, racial and gender justice.
  • Explore how different and complementary tactics and approaches can support each other
Note that the event is mainly for those "already engaged", and as such will be mainly participatory rather than platforming speakers and will focus on strategy and planning rather than on information-sharing about technologies and climate impacts.  However, we do expect to identify needs and opportunities for sharing information going forward, and bringing far more people into the conversation, including through further planned events which can be complementary to this one.

We plan to make elements of the day accessible for online participation, so please let us know if you would like to arrange this and we will supply details nearer the time.

For this and any other queries, please contact ellenrobottom@hotmail.com

The venue is wheelchair accessible and there is disabled parking but please let us know in advance so that we can ask for a space to be reserved - thanks!