Earth Day Live!

Behind a curtain, hidden from the eye of the consumer, lies the truth about the world of fashion.  Along a supply chain that begins in the soil and ends in a landfill, clothing production exacts a devastating toll on the earth as well as on the labor force toiling in garment factories around the world. This webinar discusses the way the supply chain works, what mitigating efforts are in place and looks at how fashion fits in a circular economy that aims to halt the endless consumption of our planet’s finite resources.

The next big citizen science effort is a partnership between Earth Day Network, the Wilson Center, and the U.S. State Department. Learn more about how Earth Challenge 2020 can help you save the bees, clean up your environment, and support science around the world.

THE RISING BATTLE FOR FOOD: Global Solidarity to Increase Food System Resilience  Join us and our panel of experts in a discussion about food security, hunger and how we can rebuild our food systems by making them more sustainable and resilient — especially in a time of global pandemic. The panel will also talk about approaches we can take to mitigate our climate crisis through our agricultural systems by explaining the linkages among agriculture, food systems and the environment.  Panelists: Dr. Sweta Chakraborty Risk and Behavioral Scientist, U.S. Representative - We Don't Have Time  Max Finberg President and CEO of Growing Hope Globally  Umezuruike Linus Opara Distinguished Professor Stellenbosch University, Laureate - African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Prize for Life and Earth Sciences  President, CIGR - International Commission of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering  President, AfroAgEng - The pan African Society for Agricultural Engineering  Jillian Semaan Director of Food and Agriculture, Earth Day Network   Elizabeth Whitlow Executive Director, Regenerative Organic Alliance

Join our panel of experts to learn the dangers, challenges, and solutions of our plastics crisis.

Can art save the world? Join a team of three incredible Artists for the Earth, plus Nora Lawrence of Storm King Art Center and EARTHDAY.ORG's own Shelley Rogers, to discuss the ways that moving, educational art can make our planet more sustainable.

Join our panel of food system experts to discuss food waste, its impacts, and the solutions for healthier, planet-friendly diets.

Join EARTHDAY.ORG for an engaging global panel as we observe World Environmental Education Day. The webinar will examine the interdisciplinary nature of environmental and climate change education and how we use civic education to inspire hope and action for students across the world.

Better agriculture can save the world. Learn how we can eat better, fight climate change, and support farmers by joining our panelists!

Join EARTHDAY.ORG's panel of inspirational women from Latin America who have impressive careers in protecting and supporting the environment, youth empowerment and environmental education.

We're excited to have Melissa Tan,-- Actor, Producer, and Zero Waste Advocate from Malaysia -- speak on the topic of Sustainable Fashion and Zero Waste living. 

We can't overstate how dangerous ocean-borne pollution is. Join Dr. Nathan Robinson, Marine Biologist and Science Communicator, and Abhiir Bhalla, EARTHDAY.ORG My Future My Voice Youth Ambassador for an enlightening discussion on what plastic is doing to our waters -- and what we can do to help them.

In order to combat the current climate crisis, compulsory and assessed climate and environmental literacy is essential. Join EARTHDAY.ORG on Thursday, July 29 at 4PM EAT/9AM EST for an engaging discussion that will examine the critical need for high-quality climate education in Africa to develop the next generation into informed and active environmental stewards. The panel will focus on how civic education can be used to inspire hope and action for students in African countries and around the world. The event will also launch the all-new “Africa Climate Ambassador Toolkit,” a helpful resource that teaches youth how they can engage in climate restoration in their communities and rally support through grassroots organizing.

Nature has billions of stories to tell if we listen to it. Join Ashwika Kapur, Nature Filmmaker, and Nanticha Ocharoenchai (Lynn), Environmental Writer and Founder of Climate Strike, Thailand for a great talk on the world around us and the lessons we still have to learn.

Please join us as we celebrate World Cleanup Day. This edition of Earth Day Live will feature voices from the Clean Up space who have impressive careers in protecting and keeping communities around the world clean.

This panel will highlight the current gaps of climate literacy and how countries must commit to compulsory, assessed climate and environmental education at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).

EARTHDAY.ORG at COP26

Climate Change: Can we rise to the challenge? Doha Debates will livestream a debate on climate change with live interaction from the audience at the pavilion. International journalist and Doha Debates moderator Ghida Fakhry will be joined by award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, president of Copenhagen Consensus Center Bjorn Lomborg, and former president of Mauritius Ameenah Gurib-Fakim. Each invited speaker will present a view and opinion on a possible solution for the world’s climate crisis.

EARTHDAY.ORG at COP26

EARTHDAY.ORG and African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC)
Intergenerational dialogue

Moderator: Jabri Ibrahim, from the office of the UN High Level Climate Action Champions Kenya

Panelists:

• EARTHDAY.ORG President Kathleen Rogers
• Hon. Lawrence Songa Bayika Ministry of Water and Environment Uganda
• Mr. Keriako Tobiko, Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Kenya
• Hon Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu Ministry of Environment Climate Tourism and Hospitality Industry Zimbabwe
• H.E Sharon Ikeazor Minister of State for the Environment Nigeria
• Youth speaker Brenda Mwale Earthday Malawi
• Youth speaker Kasim Gawusu AYICC Ghana

EARTHDAY.ORG at COP26

Official Side Event, Strangford Lough Room

Climate Education and Youth Empowerment: The key to meeting our climate and environmental goals

World leaders and youth voices discuss urgent reasons and benefits for universal access to climate education and outline potential implementation strategies and funding options.

Panel 1: The Roadmap for Promoting Universal Climate Literacy

Moderator: Kathleen Rogers – President, EARTHDAY.ORG

Panelists include:

• Haldis Holst – Deputy General Secretary, Education International
• Aysha Al-Mudakha – Director of Strategic Initiatives & Partnership Development in CEO Office, Qatar Foundation

Panel 2: Innovative Climate Education Solutions and Practices for Youth Empowerment

Moderator: Donna Goodman – Founding Director, Earth Child Institute

Panelists include:

• Donna L. Goodman – Founder, Earth Child Institute; Author, ECOMASTERSbooks.com
• Ismail Farja – Coordinator of the Youth Climate Hub, Foundation Mohammed VI/African Youth Climate Hub
• Naomi Nyamweya – Research Officer, Malala Fund
• Kazi Zubair Hossain – Bangladeshi Youth Representative, World Organization of the Scout Movement

EARTHDAY.ORG at COP26

Panel 1

Climate Restoration – The Only Future to Save the Planet

Reducing carbon emissions won’t restore the conditions that historically enabled humans to thrive. How can we make climate restoration possible? Which climate restoration technologies are most promising? And what are the likely costs, the possible risks, and the potential benefits?

Speakers include:

• Interviewer: Nick Nuttall – International Strategic Communications Director, EARTHDAY.ORG
• Peter Fiekowsky – Author, Entrepreneur, & Founder of global initiatives for climate restoration

Panel 2

Scaling Carbon Removal Worldwide to Achieve the Paris Agreement and Beyond:

The Power of Global Partnerships and the Oceans

This session will highlight two bold and ambitious efforts intended to massively scale safe, durable and financeable carbon removal (CDR) through both natural and technological solutions.  There will be breaking news from a cross-sectoral multi-stakeholder Task Force on Carbon Removal that has met over the last 16 months, and a deep dive into pathbreaking work to accelerate absolutely critical Ocean-Based CDR approaches.

Moderators:

Brad Ack – Executive Director, Ocean Visions

Dr. Sanjeev Khagram – Dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University

Panelists include:

• Ukur Yatani Kanacho – Minister of Finance for Kenya
• Ambassador Ertharin Cousin – Senior Advisor to the City of LA
• Kumi Naidoo – Former Global Head of Greenpeace and Amnesty International
• Margaret Leinen – Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Kilparti Ramakrishna – WHOI Senior Advisor on Ocean and Climate Policy
• Anne-Marie Laurie – Director of Climate Policy, Ocean Conservancy

EARTHDAY.ORG at COP26

Which countries are prioritizing quality climate education for all? Education International launches ground-breaking research on national commitments to climate change education. Join us for a dialogue between policymakers and union leaders on how countries must step up their climate education ambition.

Moderator:  Haldis Holst – Deputy General Secretary, Education International

Panelists include:

• Larry Flanagan – General Secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland and President of ETUCE, the European Region of Education International
• David Sengeh – Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Sierra Leone
• Shirley-Anne Sommerville – Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills for the Scottish Government
• Shreya KC – Climate Justice Activist, Campaign Coordinator of Mock COP26, Nepal

Earth Day Live from COP26

The discussion highlights EARTHDAY.ORG’s Climate and Environmental Literacy Campaign and its mission to ensure every school worldwide has integrated, assessed climate and environmental education with a strong education component.

Moderator: Andrew Jack – Global Education Editor, Financial Times

Panelists include:

• Kathleen Rogers – President, EARTHDAY.ORG
• Stefania Giannini – Assistant Director-General, UNESCO
• Haldis Holst – Deputy General Secretary, Education International
• A. Alonso Aguirre DVM, PhD, Chair and Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Earth Day Live from COP26

The education sector has a unique role to play in building a greener twenty-first century. The OECD, UNESCO, and Education International have launched a joint initiative to gather teaching expertise on what makes a difference in empowering students for climate action. This event seeks to present the initial insights that have emerged and, from this, to highlight the future directions that climate action in education can take.

Moderator: Rodolfo Lacy, Director of the Environment Directorate at the OECD

Panelists:

• Haldis Holst – Deputy General Secretary, Education International
• Stefania Giannini – Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
• Andreas Schleicher – Director for Education and Skills at the OECD (remote)
• Larry Flanagan – General Secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland and President of ETUCE, the European Region of Education International

Earth Day Live From COP26

Workforce leaders and government agency officials emphasize the nexus between climate literacy, green jobs, and a sustainable economy.

Moderator: Vicky Allan – Senior Features Writer, The Herald (Glasgow)
Panelists include:

• Sharan Burrow – General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation
• Moustapha Kamal Gueye – Global Coordinator of the Green Jobs Programme, International Labour Organization
• Joy Zheng – Founder & Executive Director, Youth Leader Fund
• Lucía Muñoz Moro – Climate Action and Analysis- Iberdrola

Earth Day Live From COP26

Creating systemic change for a more regenerative economy by realizing the “potential of the system.”

Moderator: Emilie McGlone, Director, Peace Boat US

Panelists include:

• Michele Bongiovanni – CEO/Founder, HealRWorld and Founder Music4ClimateJustice
• Peta Milan – CEO, Jet Group
• Henk Rogers – Founder & Chairman, Blue Planet Alliance
• Yoshioka Tatsuya – Founder, Peace Boat

Earth Day Live From COP26

“Nothing About Us Without Us!” is a slogan used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided by any representative without the full and direct participation of members of the group affected.

To take care of our planet, there is no substitute for action. Qatar Foundation believes that education, and youth empowerment are catalysts for this action, and for energizing and mobilizing the youth of every country to lead the charge for change.

Qatar Foundation will host a session with youth from Qatar and Scotland to discuss the impact of climate change on our future and the role of youth as global citizens guarding our planet.

Speakers:

• Abdalla Al Darwish – Qatar Academy Student
• Sama Ayoub – Qatar Academy Student
• Giulia Pinna – Secretary General, THIMUNQatar

From Earth Day Live at COP26

The discussion explores the relationship between citizen science and activism and how citizen science is the next frontier for building a movement and creating science-based solutions. Including a discussion on one such platform, Global Earth Challenge.

Moderator: Matt Lefler – Director of Citizen Science, EARTHDAY.ORG

Panelists include:

• Kathleen Rogers – President, EARTHDAY.ORG
• Anne Bowser – Chief of Staff, NatureServe
• Landon Van Dyke – Senior Advisor for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, U.S. Department of State
• Michelle Wyman – Executive Director, Global Council for Science and the Environment

Earth Day Live From COP26

Youth leaders outline their demands to governments. The discussion focuses on why governments have failed to prioritize climate literacy and civic skills, and how youth can pressure them to act.

Moderator: Derrick Mugisha – Regional Director Africa, EARTHDAY.ORG

Panelists include:

• Giulia Pinna, Secretary General of The Hague, International Model United Nations, Qatar 2022
• Alexandria Villasenor – Founder, Earth Uprising
• Johnny Dabrowski – Co-Founder of the Climate Education Team, Fridays for Future
• Ayisha Siddiqa – Co-Founder of Polluters Out, and a Pakistani-American Environmentalist
• Helena Gualinga – 19-Year-Old Environmental and Human Rights Advocate