Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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We need a radical Global Green New Deal framework to deliver a transformation that tackles climate, inequality and uproots the systems of oppression. In this panel discussion thought leaders, policy makers and activists came together to discuss the 4 key political tests and policy demands propping a GGND and how we can build power from below and above to turn this moment of crisis into a transformative call for justice

Speakers
Asad Rehman, War on Want
S'bu Zikode - Abahlali baseMjondolo - Shack Dwellers Movement, South Africa
Kalpona Akter - Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity
Ilhan Omar - Parliamentary Alliance for the Global Green New Deal
Jayati Ghosh - Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Lucio Cuenca - OCMAL and Eco Social Pact of the South
Jason Hickel - Author Less is More


Recorded online from the COP26 Coalition's People's Summit. 9 November 2021.