About the event

Join Trócaire for a panel discussion where we imagine what a world with Climate Justice would look like. We will take a look at the current situation where many women, men and children in poor countries who have done the least to cause this crisis are suffering the most. We will see what these affected communities are doing in response, ask what policymakers can do to bring about climate justice and look a little closer to home to see how we can join in and take action.

Light refreshments will be served

Peter Heaney, Trócaire’s Head of Region for Northern Ireland, will chair the discussion with members of the Trócaire policy team and Trócaire partners from our Climate Change portfolio. We will also feature some special guests from Northern Ireland to share their perspectives on the key challenges we face and what can be done to ensure we no longer have to imagine a world with climate justice.

The Trócaire Policy Team will join us to talk about what policymakers need to do to bring about climate justice. Tackling the structural causes of poverty and injustice is core to Trócaire’s approach to how we work. Trócaire’s Policy and Campaigns Team leads this work, engaging people across the island of Ireland to take action on issues of global injustice and working with our leaders and elected representatives to play an integral role in building a just and sustainable world. We urge those with power to take action – both domestically and within international forums – to contribute significantly towards global justice. The Policy Team provides expert analysis, research, policy briefs, reports and opinion pieces relating to the key policy issues which affect the communities we work with all over the world. Our advocacy campaigns for nearly half a century have challenged apartheid in South Africa, businesses abusing human rights, trade with illegal Israeli settlements, and for over a decade we have raised the urgent need for Climate Justice. We continue to hold the Irish Government, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the UK Government to account for their policies and actions which impact on global poverty and injustice.

Trócaire partners work with communities to bring about change. Our approach is based on identifying local organisations already working on the issues and supporting them. We will hear from some of our partners from overseas who are working to advance climate justice and address climate change in their own communities. We are passionate about our partners being able to speak directly to the public on the island of Ireland, to share their experience and expertise, allowing us all to better understand the impacts of climate change on the communities that are most affected.

We will also feature a video interview with Salome Mumba, Irrigation and Natural Resource Management Officer for Trócaire in Malawi who will be visiting us a few weeks before this event to meet with our supporters and the public. She will speak about her work in Malawi and share reflections on her visit to Northern Ireland.

We will also be inviting some special guests to discuss their own activism and work to advance climate justice in Northern Ireland and beyond.

There will also be the opportunity to see a piece of solidarity art entitled ‘Threads for Corporate Justice’. Trócaire volunteers collaborated with Conflict Textiles to create this special textile as part of the campaign which calls for companies to be held to account for harming people and the planet. The textile has 12 panels which each reflect elements of the campaign that the volunteers felt strongly about, including indigenous communities being violently evicted off their land, the negative impacts of the fast fashion industry, and the power of global solidarity. This is the result of a series of four online workshops facilitated by Conflict Textiles which were held for Trócaire volunteers from across the island