Food Systems Leadership Events

Established in 2015, CoFED’s Summer Co-op Academy (SCA) has been re-birthed as BUD. We are living and responding to a global shift in this moment and movement, and we hope you will BUD with us. BUD is a 5 week-long cooperative education intensive designed to support young BIPOC looking to bring generative and cooperative food sources to their communities. BUD is a life-changing experience, where young folx like you can learn more about cooperative economics, decolonizing our food system and creating community-led food solutions with a triple bottom line of food sovereignty, sustainability and social justice. Folx graduate from BUD ready to take their collective liberation visions to the next level, with new tools, connections, and questions to lead with love.

Climate Week NYC (September 21-27, 2020) is biggest climate summit taking place this year. As the focus shifts to how we rebuild after COVID-19, Climate Week NYC 2020 will explore what lessons we can learn in the pursuit of a net-zero future through just transition.

Our “For New York, for the World” approach is crucial to put people at the heart of climate action and build a better future. We must rebuild the global economy for people and planet, and we must halve global emissions by the end of this decade.

The Climate Group will host all our events, including the Opening Ceremony and the Hub Live, on an online digital platform that will incorporate live broadcast, interactive sessions, networking areas and meeting space. We will also support the hundreds of events hosted across New York City and around the world as part of the official Climate Week NYC events program.

Climate Week NYC is hosted in association with the United Nations and the City of New York.

Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony
The Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony brings together business and government leaders to showcase amazing climate action and find ways to do more. We will broadcast the Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony through both an interactive online digital platform for sector leaders and on an open on-demand platform for public viewers.

The Hub Live at Climate Week NYC
Now in its third year, Climate Group will host The Hub Live – a series of forums, discussions and workshops that bring together the expertise and influence of public and private sectors. The Hub Live is hosted through an interactive online digital platform where attendees can meet, collaborate, and inspire each other to build a better future. The Hub Live events will also be broadcast on an open on-demand platform so the global community can participate in the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

The Hub Live agenda will be updated throughout the summer. If you are interested in attending, please request an invitation.

Events Program
The Climate Week NYC events program is the primary way for the communities and individuals to engage. Organizations are invited to host an event to become an official part of the program.

The Climate Week NYC official events program will comprise of digital events from around the world and physical events (if allowed) in New York City. The full program will be updated weekly. Register your event and be a part of the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

Events are categorized in ten themes:

1. Clean Energy Transition
2. Transport and Infrastructure
3. Industry and Built Environment
4. Finance, Investment and Jobs 
5. Food and Land Use 
6. Nature and Science 
7. US and International Policy  
8. Youth, Public Mobilization and Justice  
9. Sustainable Travel and Tourism   
10. Climate Impacts and Adaptation

The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC
The Nest Summit is an official event partnership with the Climate Group to expand the realm of climate awareness and action. For the past decade, the Climate Group has gathered the world’s top innovators in knowledge, policy, and climate action.

Now at the Javits Center, the nation’s largest green venue, The Nest Summit will help expand this mission and become a prime destination during Climate Week NYC, broadening climate awareness and action. The Nest Summit 2020 program will host the companies, visionary researchers and influential policy-makers that are advancing sustainability in the United States and will be broadcast on the Climate Group’s open media channels, as well as hitting the airwaves with select media partners.

Presenters

Our September presenters will be Tobias Fox and Youth representatives from Vietlead.

Tobias Fox

Tobias Fox is the Founder and Managing Director of the community-driven, nonprofit organization Newark Science and Sustainability, Inc. Aside from being a writer and having ten years of independent publishing experience, Fox is a Professional Organizer, Urban Farmer, Photographer, and Coordinator of an annual Sustainable Living Empowerment Conference. He conducts various community events, presentations, and workshops on sustainable living practices and has assisted numerous urban farmers and gardeners with the cultivation of their agricultural space. Learn more at www.sasglocal.org.

VietLead

VietLead is a grassroots community organization in Philadelphia and South Jersey that is creating a vision and strategy for community self-determination, social justice, and cultural resilience. They are staffed and led by community members with collectively over 25 years serving the community and are committed to working from love and solidarity. Their community programs include intergenerational farming, youth organizing, health navigation & healing, civic engagement and community defense. They do this through a Heal.Resist.Grow. framework that focuses a pathway to healing trauma in our communities, contesting for power to make systemic change, policy advocacy/campaign, and growing community-based solutions. Learn more at www.vietlead.org.

Sankofa Series

Sankofa is a word from the Akan people of Ghana. It means “go back and fetch it” and reminds us of the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bring it into the present in order to ensure a strong future. The Sankofa Series is a monthly webinar series that focuses on the wisdom shared in past NESAWG conferences, sharing this information again and using it to help us move forward to continue creating meaningful change in the food system.

NESAWG has had 26 years of presenting our It Takes A Region annual conferences. In the past we have had dynamic keynote speakers, panelists, and presenters who are working towards a fair food system. In alignment with one of NESAWG’s core values ``A farm and food system for all”, presenters at the NESAWG Conferences have been multi racial, economically diverse and have spanned across food system movements and represented various food system work. Presenters have been youth leaders, elders and all those in between. The Sankofa Series will feature some of your favorites from the past. We will revisit some of the pertinent information shared as we continue to seek solutions to issues within the food system and create a positive change.

This webinar series will happen from September to February.

Registration

Registration fees for the Sankofa Series webinars are by donation. Donations will be used to cover the cost of putting on this webinar, including stipends to presenters and technology upgrades. Any profit remaining after costs are covered will be split equally among each presenter (or their organization) and NESAWG. NESAWG will put our share of profits towards our 2021 Conference Scholarship Fund.

The ticket prices are our suggested donation levels. Please choose one that feels do-able for you, your budget, and your commitment to economic and social justice.

Established in 2015, CoFED’s Summer Co-op Academy (SCA) has been re-birthed as BUD. We are living and responding to a global shift in this moment and movement, and we hope you will BUD with us. BUD is a 5 week-long cooperative education intensive designed to support young BIPOC looking to bring generative and cooperative food sources to their communities. BUD is a life-changing experience, where young folx like you can learn more about cooperative economics, decolonizing our food system and creating community-led food solutions with a triple bottom line of food sovereignty, sustainability and social justice. Folx graduate from BUD ready to take their collective liberation visions to the next level, with new tools, connections, and questions to lead with love.

Climate Week NYC (September 21-27, 2020) is biggest climate summit taking place this year. As the focus shifts to how we rebuild after COVID-19, Climate Week NYC 2020 will explore what lessons we can learn in the pursuit of a net-zero future through just transition.

Our “For New York, for the World” approach is crucial to put people at the heart of climate action and build a better future. We must rebuild the global economy for people and planet, and we must halve global emissions by the end of this decade.

The Climate Group will host all our events, including the Opening Ceremony and the Hub Live, on an online digital platform that will incorporate live broadcast, interactive sessions, networking areas and meeting space. We will also support the hundreds of events hosted across New York City and around the world as part of the official Climate Week NYC events program.

Climate Week NYC is hosted in association with the United Nations and the City of New York.

Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony
The Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony brings together business and government leaders to showcase amazing climate action and find ways to do more. We will broadcast the Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony through both an interactive online digital platform for sector leaders and on an open on-demand platform for public viewers.

The Hub Live at Climate Week NYC
Now in its third year, Climate Group will host The Hub Live – a series of forums, discussions and workshops that bring together the expertise and influence of public and private sectors. The Hub Live is hosted through an interactive online digital platform where attendees can meet, collaborate, and inspire each other to build a better future. The Hub Live events will also be broadcast on an open on-demand platform so the global community can participate in the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

The Hub Live agenda will be updated throughout the summer. If you are interested in attending, please request an invitation.

Events Program
The Climate Week NYC events program is the primary way for the communities and individuals to engage. Organizations are invited to host an event to become an official part of the program.

The Climate Week NYC official events program will comprise of digital events from around the world and physical events (if allowed) in New York City. The full program will be updated weekly. Register your event and be a part of the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

Events are categorized in ten themes:

1. Clean Energy Transition
2. Transport and Infrastructure
3. Industry and Built Environment
4. Finance, Investment and Jobs 
5. Food and Land Use 
6. Nature and Science 
7. US and International Policy  
8. Youth, Public Mobilization and Justice  
9. Sustainable Travel and Tourism   
10. Climate Impacts and Adaptation

The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC
The Nest Summit is an official event partnership with the Climate Group to expand the realm of climate awareness and action. For the past decade, the Climate Group has gathered the world’s top innovators in knowledge, policy, and climate action.

Now at the Javits Center, the nation’s largest green venue, The Nest Summit will help expand this mission and become a prime destination during Climate Week NYC, broadening climate awareness and action. The Nest Summit 2020 program will host the companies, visionary researchers and influential policy-makers that are advancing sustainability in the United States and will be broadcast on the Climate Group’s open media channels, as well as hitting the airwaves with select media partners.

U.S. agriculture currently contributes 10.5% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. However, agriculture is unique in that it has the potential to sequester more carbon than it emits, becoming the first carbon positive sector. In fact, as a sector that involves 50% of the land mass in the U.S. and, along with the food sector, employs 11% of the U.S. population, U.S. agriculture has the potential to contribute significantly to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This session will focus on where the U.S. agriculture and food sectors have the greatest opportunities to mitigate climate change, provide dignified livelihoods, and support health and well-being, and how we can get started on them.

This event will be structured as a Panel featuring 4 Farmer Leaders AND facilitated by USFRA CEO Erin Fitzgerald. The session will start with a short presentation and we will then hear a short story from each panelist before we move into discussion. We will use Polls and Q&A to interact with attendees throughout, and will engage attendees in considering what role they can play to drive action.

The target audience for this panel is anyone who is interested in collaborating with farmers, ranchers and the agricultural value chain to unlock these opportunities for significant positive impact on people, the climate, and the planet.

U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action (USFRA) represents farmer and rancher-led organizations, and food and agricultural partners, with a common vision to further our global sustainable food systems. We believe farmers uniquely contribute to nourishing our planet, people, and natural resources. Our focus is creating a proactive collaboration between the best minds in food, agriculture, science, and technology to co-create solutions that will result in environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

At the start of a new decade, the agriculture sector is evaluating what’s working and where additional effort is needed to meet the industry’s climate mitigation and adaptation goals. The stakes are higher than ever before. Extreme weather events threaten to reverse U.S. agriculture’s long-term productivity gains at a time when global demand for food is rising. In the same way, many global companies have also established ambitious, science-based greenhouse gas reduction targets with looming deadlines. As a result, the agriculture community finds itself caught in the middle—as a source of greenhouse gas emissions, a solution for carbon sequestration, and the industry most at risk from increasingly volatile weather patterns.

As part of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture’s 2020 Cross-Sector Dialogue series, this roundtable discussion convenes food executives, farmers, policy leaders, scientists and conservation experts to explore some of the most innovative examples of how the food and agriculture value chain is scaling the adoption of climate-smart farming, while also examining the serious consequences of not meeting our collective goals to address the climate crisis.

Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, brings together a diverse group of grower organizations; agribusinesses; food, beverage, restaurant and retail companies; conservation groups; universities and public sector partners to focus on defining, measuring and advancing the sustainability of food, feed, fiber and fuel production. By uniting the agricultural value chain around a pre-competitive sustainability measurement framework and process-based standard to accelerate continuous improvement, Field to Market seeks to harness collective action to support resilient ecosystems and enhance farmer livelihoods. Field to Market is comprised of more than 140 members representing all facets of the U.S. agricultural value chain, with members employing more than 5 million people and representing combined revenues totaling over $1.5 trillion.

This event is part of the Food and Land Use, Nature and Science, and Climate Impacts and Adaptation programs.

Attendance to the event is by invitation only and capacity is limited. To request an invitation, please visit: https://bit.ly/3kmaoQT  

Continued deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon will have catastrophic climatic and economic consequences for the region and the globe. The science is clear, and effective solutions to these problems are still within our reach, but in many respects we are moving in the wrong direction.

The Woodwell Climate Research Center (formerly known as Woods Hole Research Center), in partnership with the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), developed a comprehensive forest protection program in Brazil that integrates science, public communication, and direct policy engagement. This plan targets four stakeholder groups vital to ending tropical deforestation: indigenous peoples, small family farms, large agribusiness farms and undesignated lands. By working with these four groups, we will (1) quantify and effectively communicate the environmental, climatic, and economic risks of deforestation and climate change, and (2) reduce these risks by implementing innovative economic and policy incentives to conserve forests on public and private lands. This session will target experts and non-experts who are interested in understanding the science and policy issues at the heart of preserving the Brazilian Amazon.

The 90-minute session is organized jointly by the Woodwell Climate Research Center and IPAM, who have been working collaboratively in the Amazon for more than 25 years. The session will spend 30 minutes on a moderator’s introduction and a brief presentation by experts from the two organizations, followed by a panel discussion including several key stakeholders that are working with us. We will conclude with a moderated Q&A session.

In her presentation “Hidden In Plain Bite,” Kiely Smith, New York Director of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition, reveals how our food choices are one of the most powerful ways we can help stop everything from climate change, to deforestation, to water depletion and pollution. The Factory Farming Awareness Coalition inspires and empowers individuals and institutions to create a more just, compassionate, and sustainable food system. By educating young people and stakeholder audiences about factory farming and equipping them with the tools to oppose it, FFAC builds both an inclusive consumer base as well as an informed citizenry that support cultural and legislative change for the benefit of all.

FFAC’s work centers around three core strategies:

• Raising Awareness, because people must know that a better world is possible in order to strive towards it.
• Mobilizing Activists, building our power by broadening our movement.
• Institutional Change, mobilizing connections to foster sustainable food culture and shift menus within institutions.

This event is part of the Industry and Built Environment, Food and Land Use, Youth, Public Mobilization and Justice, and Climate Impacts and Adaptation programs. 

Established in 2015, CoFED’s Summer Co-op Academy (SCA) has been re-birthed as BUD. We are living and responding to a global shift in this moment and movement, and we hope you will BUD with us. BUD is a 5 week-long cooperative education intensive designed to support young BIPOC looking to bring generative and cooperative food sources to their communities. BUD is a life-changing experience, where young folx like you can learn more about cooperative economics, decolonizing our food system and creating community-led food solutions with a triple bottom line of food sovereignty, sustainability and social justice. Folx graduate from BUD ready to take their collective liberation visions to the next level, with new tools, connections, and questions to lead with love.

Climate Week NYC (September 21-27, 2020) is biggest climate summit taking place this year. As the focus shifts to how we rebuild after COVID-19, Climate Week NYC 2020 will explore what lessons we can learn in the pursuit of a net-zero future through just transition.

Our “For New York, for the World” approach is crucial to put people at the heart of climate action and build a better future. We must rebuild the global economy for people and planet, and we must halve global emissions by the end of this decade.

The Climate Group will host all our events, including the Opening Ceremony and the Hub Live, on an online digital platform that will incorporate live broadcast, interactive sessions, networking areas and meeting space. We will also support the hundreds of events hosted across New York City and around the world as part of the official Climate Week NYC events program.

Climate Week NYC is hosted in association with the United Nations and the City of New York.

Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony
The Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony brings together business and government leaders to showcase amazing climate action and find ways to do more. We will broadcast the Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony through both an interactive online digital platform for sector leaders and on an open on-demand platform for public viewers.

The Hub Live at Climate Week NYC
Now in its third year, Climate Group will host The Hub Live – a series of forums, discussions and workshops that bring together the expertise and influence of public and private sectors. The Hub Live is hosted through an interactive online digital platform where attendees can meet, collaborate, and inspire each other to build a better future. The Hub Live events will also be broadcast on an open on-demand platform so the global community can participate in the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

The Hub Live agenda will be updated throughout the summer. If you are interested in attending, please request an invitation.

Events Program
The Climate Week NYC events program is the primary way for the communities and individuals to engage. Organizations are invited to host an event to become an official part of the program.

The Climate Week NYC official events program will comprise of digital events from around the world and physical events (if allowed) in New York City. The full program will be updated weekly. Register your event and be a part of the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

Events are categorized in ten themes:

1. Clean Energy Transition
2. Transport and Infrastructure
3. Industry and Built Environment
4. Finance, Investment and Jobs 
5. Food and Land Use 
6. Nature and Science 
7. US and International Policy  
8. Youth, Public Mobilization and Justice  
9. Sustainable Travel and Tourism   
10. Climate Impacts and Adaptation

The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC
The Nest Summit is an official event partnership with the Climate Group to expand the realm of climate awareness and action. For the past decade, the Climate Group has gathered the world’s top innovators in knowledge, policy, and climate action.

Now at the Javits Center, the nation’s largest green venue, The Nest Summit will help expand this mission and become a prime destination during Climate Week NYC, broadening climate awareness and action. The Nest Summit 2020 program will host the companies, visionary researchers and influential policy-makers that are advancing sustainability in the United States and will be broadcast on the Climate Group’s open media channels, as well as hitting the airwaves with select media partners.

Failing to achieve a global  transition to sustainable food systems presents an existential threat to society directly in the form of lost food security and food poverty; financial markets via heightened equity, bond and credit risk; and governments needing to replace not only lost food production but related earnings.

Short-term acute shocks of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted many vulnerabilities of a ‘just-in-time’ food production and distribution model, while longer term systemic shocks are being exacerbated by climate change, water stress, exceeded planetary boundaries, ongoing globalisation, and heightening political instability.

Brazil is a country at particular risk of reaching tipping points due to deforestation of the Amazon, which has global as well as national implications.

This webinar by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the think tank Planet Tracker will assess the potential for Brazil to provide healthy diets for its people while preserving its natural capital and retaining its agricultural export leadership.

Presenters:

• Nick Robins, co-founder of Planet Tracker and Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics
• Matt McLuckie, Director of External Relations, Head of Food and Land Use Programme, Planet Tracker

Hunger rates have been on the rise for the last several years. Climate change is a contributing factor. Join Bread for the World Institute for a conversation with a panel of experts, including farmers, on how climate change is affecting global food systems and what changes are needed to address the impact of climate change.

Bread for the World Institute provides nonpartisan policy analysis on hunger and strategies to end it. The Institute has been educating opinion leaders, policymakers, and the public about hunger in the United States and abroad since 1975.

Calling all undercover superheroes to the kitchen!

The food sector is uniquely poised to reverse global warming, if only everyday people embraced climate beneficial food choices as a celebrated part of food culture. Join the Food for Climate League's panel as they share their vision of a world in which every eater is a climate hero: Empowered with nutritious, delicious and Instagram-worthy foods, a sense of community, and the ability to preserve a shared planet for generations to come. You'll also learn cooking tips and recipes from a leading 'climate chef' that can transform you into a food warrior in your own kitchen.

Speakers include:

• Eve Turow-Paul, Founder & Executive Director, Food for Climate League
• Sophie Egan, Author, Founder, Full Table Solutions; Director of Strategy, Food for Climate League
• Chris Follari, Director of Culinary, Sodexo Global Food Platform
• Sara Roversi, Founder & Executive Director, Future Food Institute

Moderated by Amy Kull, Founder & CEO, Marin Restorative Communications; Director of Communications, Food for Climate League

Established in 2015, CoFED’s Summer Co-op Academy (SCA) has been re-birthed as BUD. We are living and responding to a global shift in this moment and movement, and we hope you will BUD with us. BUD is a 5 week-long cooperative education intensive designed to support young BIPOC looking to bring generative and cooperative food sources to their communities. BUD is a life-changing experience, where young folx like you can learn more about cooperative economics, decolonizing our food system and creating community-led food solutions with a triple bottom line of food sovereignty, sustainability and social justice. Folx graduate from BUD ready to take their collective liberation visions to the next level, with new tools, connections, and questions to lead with love.

Climate Week NYC (September 21-27, 2020) is biggest climate summit taking place this year. As the focus shifts to how we rebuild after COVID-19, Climate Week NYC 2020 will explore what lessons we can learn in the pursuit of a net-zero future through just transition.

Our “For New York, for the World” approach is crucial to put people at the heart of climate action and build a better future. We must rebuild the global economy for people and planet, and we must halve global emissions by the end of this decade.

The Climate Group will host all our events, including the Opening Ceremony and the Hub Live, on an online digital platform that will incorporate live broadcast, interactive sessions, networking areas and meeting space. We will also support the hundreds of events hosted across New York City and around the world as part of the official Climate Week NYC events program.

Climate Week NYC is hosted in association with the United Nations and the City of New York.

Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony
The Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony brings together business and government leaders to showcase amazing climate action and find ways to do more. We will broadcast the Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony through both an interactive online digital platform for sector leaders and on an open on-demand platform for public viewers.

The Hub Live at Climate Week NYC
Now in its third year, Climate Group will host The Hub Live – a series of forums, discussions and workshops that bring together the expertise and influence of public and private sectors. The Hub Live is hosted through an interactive online digital platform where attendees can meet, collaborate, and inspire each other to build a better future. The Hub Live events will also be broadcast on an open on-demand platform so the global community can participate in the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

The Hub Live agenda will be updated throughout the summer. If you are interested in attending, please request an invitation.

Events Program
The Climate Week NYC events program is the primary way for the communities and individuals to engage. Organizations are invited to host an event to become an official part of the program.

The Climate Week NYC official events program will comprise of digital events from around the world and physical events (if allowed) in New York City. The full program will be updated weekly. Register your event and be a part of the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

Events are categorized in ten themes:

1. Clean Energy Transition
2. Transport and Infrastructure
3. Industry and Built Environment
4. Finance, Investment and Jobs 
5. Food and Land Use 
6. Nature and Science 
7. US and International Policy  
8. Youth, Public Mobilization and Justice  
9. Sustainable Travel and Tourism   
10. Climate Impacts and Adaptation

The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC
The Nest Summit is an official event partnership with the Climate Group to expand the realm of climate awareness and action. For the past decade, the Climate Group has gathered the world’s top innovators in knowledge, policy, and climate action.

Now at the Javits Center, the nation’s largest green venue, The Nest Summit will help expand this mission and become a prime destination during Climate Week NYC, broadening climate awareness and action. The Nest Summit 2020 program will host the companies, visionary researchers and influential policy-makers that are advancing sustainability in the United States and will be broadcast on the Climate Group’s open media channels, as well as hitting the airwaves with select media partners.

One third of the world’s food goes to waste, yet almost a billion people are going hungry. Collaboration – between sectors, throughout supply chains and across continents – is the only way we will fix this most pressing global challenge.

This year saw the launch of FLAWLESS, an ambitious world-first coalition to accelerate and upscale the fight against food waste in Mexico, South Africa and Indonesia. Led by WRAP, the UK-based charity fighting food waste worldwide and funded by the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G) initiative, FLAWLESS is a unique combination of voluntary agreement (based on the pioneering UK Courtauld Commitment voluntary agreement, itself winner of P4G’s inaugural State-of-the-art Partnership of the Year Award) mobilising the financial sector to factor in both financial and environmental performance in their lending.

Join WRAP’s global food waste lead Claire Kneller, [and other project partners] to hear how FLAWLESS is accelerating progress to Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, learn about the challenges and joys of tackling food waste across three continents and multiple time-zones, and discover how the power of collaboration can supercharge your sustainability mission.

WRAP was established as a not-for-profit company in 2000; we became a charity in 2014. We promote and encourage sustainable resource use through product design, waste minimisation, re-use, recycling and reprocessing of waste materials. We work with governments, businesses and citizens to create a world where resources are sourced and used sustainably. Our key focus areas are food and drink, plastic packaging, clothing and textiles and resource management.

The climate crisis is thrusting the world’s farming communities into deeper poverty while destroying forests and other ecosystems. Scientists and local and indigenous leaders declare we have very limited time to harness our best solutions and act to build climate resilience for local communities living on the front lines of climate change.

This virtual global event will bring together a diverse set of leaders in a solutions-focused roundtable addressing these and other questions:

• What are the most crucial actions companies and governments must take now to bring about climate justice and resilience for the world’s rural poor?

• With one-quarter of the world’s forests under the control of indigenous and local people, how can all of us better support the economic success and empowerment of indigenous peoples?

• How exactly does climate-smart agriculture support those who feed us to adapt to the crisis, and how can we scale this model up rapidly and sustainably?

Established in 2015, CoFED’s Summer Co-op Academy (SCA) has been re-birthed as BUD. We are living and responding to a global shift in this moment and movement, and we hope you will BUD with us. BUD is a 5 week-long cooperative education intensive designed to support young BIPOC looking to bring generative and cooperative food sources to their communities. BUD is a life-changing experience, where young folx like you can learn more about cooperative economics, decolonizing our food system and creating community-led food solutions with a triple bottom line of food sovereignty, sustainability and social justice. Folx graduate from BUD ready to take their collective liberation visions to the next level, with new tools, connections, and questions to lead with love.

Climate Week NYC (September 21-27, 2020) is biggest climate summit taking place this year. As the focus shifts to how we rebuild after COVID-19, Climate Week NYC 2020 will explore what lessons we can learn in the pursuit of a net-zero future through just transition.

Our “For New York, for the World” approach is crucial to put people at the heart of climate action and build a better future. We must rebuild the global economy for people and planet, and we must halve global emissions by the end of this decade.

The Climate Group will host all our events, including the Opening Ceremony and the Hub Live, on an online digital platform that will incorporate live broadcast, interactive sessions, networking areas and meeting space. We will also support the hundreds of events hosted across New York City and around the world as part of the official Climate Week NYC events program.

Climate Week NYC is hosted in association with the United Nations and the City of New York.

Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony
The Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony brings together business and government leaders to showcase amazing climate action and find ways to do more. We will broadcast the Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony through both an interactive online digital platform for sector leaders and on an open on-demand platform for public viewers.

The Hub Live at Climate Week NYC
Now in its third year, Climate Group will host The Hub Live – a series of forums, discussions and workshops that bring together the expertise and influence of public and private sectors. The Hub Live is hosted through an interactive online digital platform where attendees can meet, collaborate, and inspire each other to build a better future. The Hub Live events will also be broadcast on an open on-demand platform so the global community can participate in the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

The Hub Live agenda will be updated throughout the summer. If you are interested in attending, please request an invitation.

Events Program
The Climate Week NYC events program is the primary way for the communities and individuals to engage. Organizations are invited to host an event to become an official part of the program.

The Climate Week NYC official events program will comprise of digital events from around the world and physical events (if allowed) in New York City. The full program will be updated weekly. Register your event and be a part of the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

Events are categorized in ten themes:

1. Clean Energy Transition
2. Transport and Infrastructure
3. Industry and Built Environment
4. Finance, Investment and Jobs 
5. Food and Land Use 
6. Nature and Science 
7. US and International Policy  
8. Youth, Public Mobilization and Justice  
9. Sustainable Travel and Tourism   
10. Climate Impacts and Adaptation

The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC
The Nest Summit is an official event partnership with the Climate Group to expand the realm of climate awareness and action. For the past decade, the Climate Group has gathered the world’s top innovators in knowledge, policy, and climate action.

Now at the Javits Center, the nation’s largest green venue, The Nest Summit will help expand this mission and become a prime destination during Climate Week NYC, broadening climate awareness and action. The Nest Summit 2020 program will host the companies, visionary researchers and influential policy-makers that are advancing sustainability in the United States and will be broadcast on the Climate Group’s open media channels, as well as hitting the airwaves with select media partners.

Established in 2015, CoFED’s Summer Co-op Academy (SCA) has been re-birthed as BUD. We are living and responding to a global shift in this moment and movement, and we hope you will BUD with us. BUD is a 5 week-long cooperative education intensive designed to support young BIPOC looking to bring generative and cooperative food sources to their communities. BUD is a life-changing experience, where young folx like you can learn more about cooperative economics, decolonizing our food system and creating community-led food solutions with a triple bottom line of food sovereignty, sustainability and social justice. Folx graduate from BUD ready to take their collective liberation visions to the next level, with new tools, connections, and questions to lead with love.

Climate Week NYC (September 21-27, 2020) is biggest climate summit taking place this year. As the focus shifts to how we rebuild after COVID-19, Climate Week NYC 2020 will explore what lessons we can learn in the pursuit of a net-zero future through just transition.

Our “For New York, for the World” approach is crucial to put people at the heart of climate action and build a better future. We must rebuild the global economy for people and planet, and we must halve global emissions by the end of this decade.

The Climate Group will host all our events, including the Opening Ceremony and the Hub Live, on an online digital platform that will incorporate live broadcast, interactive sessions, networking areas and meeting space. We will also support the hundreds of events hosted across New York City and around the world as part of the official Climate Week NYC events program.

Climate Week NYC is hosted in association with the United Nations and the City of New York.

Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony
The Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony brings together business and government leaders to showcase amazing climate action and find ways to do more. We will broadcast the Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony through both an interactive online digital platform for sector leaders and on an open on-demand platform for public viewers.

The Hub Live at Climate Week NYC
Now in its third year, Climate Group will host The Hub Live – a series of forums, discussions and workshops that bring together the expertise and influence of public and private sectors. The Hub Live is hosted through an interactive online digital platform where attendees can meet, collaborate, and inspire each other to build a better future. The Hub Live events will also be broadcast on an open on-demand platform so the global community can participate in the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

The Hub Live agenda will be updated throughout the summer. If you are interested in attending, please request an invitation.

Events Program
The Climate Week NYC events program is the primary way for the communities and individuals to engage. Organizations are invited to host an event to become an official part of the program.

The Climate Week NYC official events program will comprise of digital events from around the world and physical events (if allowed) in New York City. The full program will be updated weekly. Register your event and be a part of the biggest Climate Week on Earth.

Events are categorized in ten themes:

1. Clean Energy Transition
2. Transport and Infrastructure
3. Industry and Built Environment
4. Finance, Investment and Jobs 
5. Food and Land Use 
6. Nature and Science 
7. US and International Policy  
8. Youth, Public Mobilization and Justice  
9. Sustainable Travel and Tourism   
10. Climate Impacts and Adaptation

The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC
The Nest Summit is an official event partnership with the Climate Group to expand the realm of climate awareness and action. For the past decade, the Climate Group has gathered the world’s top innovators in knowledge, policy, and climate action.

Now at the Javits Center, the nation’s largest green venue, The Nest Summit will help expand this mission and become a prime destination during Climate Week NYC, broadening climate awareness and action. The Nest Summit 2020 program will host the companies, visionary researchers and influential policy-makers that are advancing sustainability in the United States and will be broadcast on the Climate Group’s open media channels, as well as hitting the airwaves with select media partners.

Established in 2015, CoFED’s Summer Co-op Academy (SCA) has been re-birthed as BUD. We are living and responding to a global shift in this moment and movement, and we hope you will BUD with us. BUD is a 5 week-long cooperative education intensive designed to support young BIPOC looking to bring generative and cooperative food sources to their communities. BUD is a life-changing experience, where young folx like you can learn more about cooperative economics, decolonizing our food system and creating community-led food solutions with a triple bottom line of food sovereignty, sustainability and social justice. Folx graduate from BUD ready to take their collective liberation visions to the next level, with new tools, connections, and questions to lead with love.

Established in 2015, CoFED’s Summer Co-op Academy (SCA) has been re-birthed as BUD. We are living and responding to a global shift in this moment and movement, and we hope you will BUD with us. BUD is a 5 week-long cooperative education intensive designed to support young BIPOC looking to bring generative and cooperative food sources to their communities. BUD is a life-changing experience, where young folx like you can learn more about cooperative economics, decolonizing our food system and creating community-led food solutions with a triple bottom line of food sovereignty, sustainability and social justice. Folx graduate from BUD ready to take their collective liberation visions to the next level, with new tools, connections, and questions to lead with love.

Boulder Food Rescue is excited to be hosting our second workshop on Building Participatory Structures: Organization Systems Analysis, to go deeper into the work, on September 29th, 2pm MST. Our first introductory workshop in June was a huge success, with over 96 participants. This second workshop dives deeper to conduct a systems analysis of your own organization, better understand the barriers of participation for your program users, and begin to identify initial steps towards internal change. 

This workshop is for you if:

• You work in an organization providing direct services (at any level or position of the organization)
• You work with marginalized populations who have barriers to accessing services
• You are interested in innovative solutions to paternalism and savorism built into organizational systems, structures, policies, and practices
• You are interested in your own growth and development, and that of your organization, in the area of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion or Anti-Oppression

The workshop is free to attend. You do not have to have attended the first one to attend this one. Please come or spread the word if you know anyone who wants to come. 

Get Healthy Philly (GHP) believes that all people should live to their fullest potential in environments that allow them to grow and thrive, and that progress only happens when we treat all people with dignity, care, and respect. As part of its efforts, GHP works toward creating a healthy, sustainable, and fair local food system, or what we call a good food economy. But we know a good food economy cannot exist in a racist system. To realize the health of individuals, the environment, and the economy, we have to dismantle systems of oppression that directly and covertly undermine the health and humanity of people of color, particularly white supremacy’s erosion of the health and self-determination of Black people.

What does it take to build a good food system for all? GHP is going to ask around. In partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Division of Cultural and Civic Engagement, GHP will present 6 conversations between good food leaders around the country and local good food advocates. These inter-city digital dialogues will showcase progress in developing a good food economy through anti-racist strategies, and inspire all of us to envision and work toward an equitable food system.

September 29

Financing Good Food

In a 2018 survey of food entrepreneurs performed by Get Healthy Philly, the majority reported that personal savings were the primary means of financing their businesses, followed by personal credit cards. What are alternatives to putting food entrepreneurs at personal financial risk when we build the new food economy? This panel, featuring Molly Hartman of the Reinvestment Fund and Mariela Cendeno of Oakland's Mandela Partners, will discuss alternative financing models that understand and work with the food sector.

Established in 2015, CoFED’s Summer Co-op Academy (SCA) has been re-birthed as BUD. We are living and responding to a global shift in this moment and movement, and we hope you will BUD with us. BUD is a 5 week-long cooperative education intensive designed to support young BIPOC looking to bring generative and cooperative food sources to their communities. BUD is a life-changing experience, where young folx like you can learn more about cooperative economics, decolonizing our food system and creating community-led food solutions with a triple bottom line of food sovereignty, sustainability and social justice. Folx graduate from BUD ready to take their collective liberation visions to the next level, with new tools, connections, and questions to lead with love.

JAFSCD announces a call for papers and essays for a special issue on COVID-19 and the Food System. The deadline for submissions is anytime before September 30, 2020.  

Please contact Andre Williamson, President of Agralytica, with any questions regarding the content of this invitation or to provide additional feedback regarding the feasibility of insurance coverage for local food producers.  Mobile Number: 240-432-0308 OR email: awilliamson@agralytica.com. If you email, please include “Local foods insurance” as your subject line.