ground up: climate justice forum Agenda

At registration you'll sign the sign in form, receive a ‘Ground Up’ wristband which you'll need to access the different sessions and receive your free lunch voucher to use in the UCC Student Centre only. 

Also you can sign up to the breakout sessions you would like to attend Friday morning on a first-come-first-served basis at registration. Some breakout sessions will have capacity limits

Sinéad Roche - Ground Up: Climate Justice Forum MC
Jim Clarken (Oxfam Ireland CEO) will deliver  Opening Remarks 
 

Location: Devere Hall

What is climate justice and who is it for? Why should we care about it during these times of social, political and economic upheaval?

Featuring contributions from a panel of experts, this high-level discussion will explore the interconnections between climate change and issues of social, global, economic and ecological justice, including the challenges and opportunities for taking just climate action. 

Cian Walsh, Chair (UCC Student Union); Prof Jennie Stephens (Maynooth University); Pádraic Fogarty (Rewild!/author); Safa' Al Jayoussi (Oxfam International)

Location: Devere Hall

• Feminist Communities for Climate Justice 
  The domestic, gendered and intersectional impacts of the climate crisis (Workshop) 
  
   This workshop format consists of two sections: firstly, we give a presentation on the project and an overview of our Feminist Climate Justice report, examining the impacts of climate change in Ireland on areas like housing, transport, health, food and care; we then invite participants to get into groups and answer prompts relating to intersectionality or actions they could take relating to climate justice.

  Location: Boole 6

• Irish Doughnut Economics Network 
  Step into the Doughnut (Workshop) 

  The Step into the Doughnut workshops introduces Kate Raworth’s, Doughnut Economics and How to think like a 21st century economist. It brings the theory into experiential active participation, and connection, enables people to literally step into the Doughnut to experience the idea rather than just read about it. There are prompts that invite participants to reflect on the things they care about in their lives, in their community and in the world. The workshop helps people to see many connections and how these can all live within the goal of the Doughnut.

  Location: Electrical Engineerings LL2

• Creativity and Change 
  ImaginACTION Space with Creativity & Change
  Exercise your imagination muscles and add to your creative toolbox through exploring ‘awesome solutions’ for the world you want to see.
  
  Workshop brought to you by Helen O’ Keeffe from Creativity & Change at MTU, Cork.

  Location: Makers space

• Concern Worldwide 
  Concern's Intergenerational climate campaign Café (Workshop) 
  Through an in person climate café we will be discussing global issues, we’re gathering voices of all ages to shape a better future. Your thoughts and opinions will be turned into key climate demands forming our Intergenerational Climate Declaration. The declaration will be delivered to the Irish Government before COP30 in November. 

  Location: FSB A1

• Plan International 
  Think global, act local (Workshop) 
  Join Erin O’Riordan and Sheenagh Rowland, Plan International Ireland’s COP29 Youth Climate Delegates for this “Think Global, Act Local” workshop. Hear from young activists who attended COP29 about the key issues for climate justice after COP29 and ahead of COP30, then work with fellow participants to brainstorm local initiatives and grassroots actions to tackle these global problems

  Location: Boole 5

Bring your placards and join local activists this Global Climate Strike Day Theme: DontSellOurFuture 

Speakers:

• Eva Mols, Fridays For Future  Cork
   
• Dylan Krug, UCC BDS
   
• Aimée Kielt  & Bríd Hennigan, Oxfam Ireland Youth Ambassadors
   
• Dearbhla Richardson, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
   
• Cian Walsh, UCCSU Environmental & Sustainability Rep
   
• Camila Soliz & Enero Roig, Friday For Futures Spain

Location: AMPHITHEATRE 

Collect your free lunch voucher at registration and use in UCC Student Centre (Café Oasis, Upstairs Café, Hamish Bar)

• Bohemian FC  
  Bohemian Climate Cooperative would like to welcome you to an interactive workshop at the Oxfam Climate Justice Weekend. We will discuss how we may respond to a community's needs when looking at climate action solutions. We will use data collected from different imaginary communities, who have different demographics, socio- economic components and where their environmental rights may be affected. From this data, we will discuss available solutions, and which may be most effective for each community's needs. (Workshop 1/2) 

  Location: Makers Space

• The Working Class Climate Alliance 
  Reorienting 'expert knowledge':

  This workshop will delve into the power of local, community-based knowledge and its potential for making progressive change. Building working class power by overturning mainstream conceptualisations of 'expertise' and 'intelligence', and seeing it not just as something held by those with advanced professional credentials such as a university degree, or extensive working experience. (Workshop 1/2) 

  Location: Boole 6

• Communities Against the Injustice of Mining (CAIM) 
  Extractivism and climate justice

  This workshop will explore extractivism, taking a global and local lens to understand how some communities are being sacrificed in the name of green transitions. The first hour will introduce the concept of extractivism and the need for "critical minerals" mining to be understood as a key climate justice issue. 

  The second half of this workshop will be a countermapping activity, using arts, embodied and participatory tasks to explore connection to place, extraction and how we build solidarity. (Workshop 1/2) 

  Location: Boole 5

• Community Action Tenants Union (CATU)  
  Housing justice and environmental justice - exploring how the movements intersect and how to take action!

  Location: ORB 202

• Full Circle Change 
  Exploring and experiencing interconnection through music and song (Workshop) 

  Location: Electrical Engineering LL2

• Bohemian FC (cont’d) 
  Bohemian Climate Cooperative would like to welcome you to an interactive workshop at the Oxfam Climate Justice Weekend. We will discuss how we may respond to a community's needs when looking at climate action solutions. We will use data collected from different imaginary communities, who have different demographics, socio- economic components and where their environmental rights may be affected. From this data, we will discuss available solutions, and which may be most effective for each community's needs.  (Workshop 2/2) 

  Location: Makers Space

   

• The Working Class Climate Alliance (WCCA) (cont’d) 
  Reorienting 'expert knowledge':

  This workshop will delve into the power of local, community-based knowledge and its potential for making progressive change. Building working class power by overturning mainstream conceptualisations of 'expertise' and 'intelligence', and seeing it not just as something held by those with advanced professional credentials such as a university degree, or extensive working experience.  (Workshop 2/2) 

  Location: Boole 6

   

• Communities Against the Injustice of Mining (CAIM) (cont’d) 
  Extractivism and climate justice

  This workshop will explore extractivism, taking a global and local lens to understand how some communities are being sacrificed in the name of green transitions. The first hour will introduce the concept of extractivism and the need for "critical minerals" mining to be understood as a key climate justice issue. 

  The second half of this workshop will be a countermapping activity, using arts, embodied and participatory tasks to explore connection to place, extraction and how we build solidarity. (Workshop 2/2) 

  Location: Boole 5

• La Xixa (Barcelona) 
  What kind of world are we leaving for our dogs? (Forum theatre performance)
  In the face of increasingly hostile urban policies and so-called "migration crises" marked by unscrupulous mass deportations, we explore the technological, industrial, and sensationalist evolution of our ways of existing, consuming, and relating. Factors beyond our control—such as origin, language, gender, and economic status, among others—determine our supposed "independence" and "freedom" in an increasingly globalized world.
  Depending on the “human value” attributed to us—judging individuals based on arbitrary parameters—we become either objects of desire or rejection, yet always products subject to exploitation.
  This erosion of values leads to the dehumanization of the human being, transformed into nothing more than a pet of power. A position that, though disgraceful, is still one of privilege compared to those who have nothing left to lose. Is there a non-dystopian solution to face this?
  In this piece, that’s where we begin—but we glimpse a possibility in the communal and collective, which we carry into an open forum with the present audience.

  Location: Devere Hall

• Rights, the Law and the Struggle for Climate Justice 

  Rights of all sorts are under attack in many places around the world, including through the criminalisation of protest and activism. In these contexts and others, the legal system can be a repressive instrument and an active barrier to change. Increasingly, however, there are also examples of how rights and the law are being used in effective, strategic ways by progressive actors. This panel will explore these issues and more in asking, what role does the law play in the struggle for climate justice?

  
  Niamh Guiry, Chair (University College Cork), Simon Murtagh (Ecojustice Ireland), Georgina Johnston (Centre for Environmental Justice), Aoife Daly (University College Cork) 

  Location: Electrical Engineering LL2

This session is for anyone passionate about climate justice, whether you're an activist, researcher, community leader, or simply keen to contribute your ideas. Come ready to listen, share, and collaborate as we work together towards meaningful action. 

We'll also be joined by Ali Sheridan, Chair of Ireland's Just Transition Commission, and Mary Murphy, chairperson of Oxfam Ireland, who will act as Keynote Listeners. 

Keynote Listeners are people who hold positions of expertise, influence, and leadership. Their role is to listen attentively to the outcomes of the Ideas Lab, ensuring that the insights and perspectives shared by participants are fully acknowledged. Rather than leading the discussion, their role is to reflect back what they have heard, drawing on their expertise to provide thoughtful synthesis and interpretation. This process helps to validate and reinforce participants' contributions and connects their insights to broader strategic or policy considerations. 

At Registration you fill in the Sign in sheet.

Lead facilitator: Kathryn McCabe 

Building Collective Learning & Reflection 

A group lunch will be provided at Devere Hall 

Shaping Oxfam Ireland’s Role in Climate Justice.

Oxfam Ireland is committed to being part of the change to a truly just and sustainable society. But we don’t pretend to have all the answers. As we continue to shape our work and approach to just climate action, we want to listen to and learn from the knowledge, wisdom, experiences and wishes for the future that our communities, activists and committed grassroots organisations have in abundance.  

We believe that all voices should be heard and valued in any discussions about our collective future. We also believe that tackling climate change presents an unmissable opportunity to simultaneously tackle the underlying, interconnected drivers of inequality and injustice, both across Ireland and around the world.