About COP26 Coalition

About COP26 Coalition 

The COP26 Coalition is a UK-based civil society coalition of groups and individuals mobilising around climate justice during COP26. Coalition members include environment and development NGOs, trade unions, grassroots community campaigns, faith groups, youth groups, migrant and racial justice networks – to name a few.

Our aims

World leaders and experts will meet in Glasgow in November at the global climate talks, COP26. Global problems need global solutions. The decisions made at COP26 will shape how governments respond (or not) to the climate crisis. They will decide who is to be sacrificed, who will escape and who will make a profit. So far, governments have done too little too late: colluding with corporations and hiding behind green washed ‘solutions’ that actually don’t exist yet, that don’t address the scale of the problem, and in many cases rely on more exploitation of people and the planet.Justice won’t be handed to us by world leaders or delivered by corporations. Only we can imagine and build the future that works for all of us. The transformative solutions that we need to survive and build a more just and fair world can only be brought about through collective action, solidarity and coordination, from our local communities and international levels.

We are bringing together movements from across the world to build power for system change – indigenous movements, frontline communities, trade unions, racial justice groups, youth strikers, landworkers, peasants, NGOs, grassroots community campaigns, feminist movements, faith groups – to name a few. Wherever you are in the world, now is the time to join the fight for climate justice. We need all hands on deck: in workplaces, communities, schools, hospitals and across national borders. We will be putting indigenous, frontline and Global South communities front and centre. We need your help to amplify their voices and demands.

6 November: Join us in actions across the world so that we can be loud and clear to the world leaders discussing our future: we want climate justice now!

7-10 November: Join us for our People’s Summit for Climate Justice where the climate justice movement will be coming together to discuss, learn and strategize for system change. You can join in online from anywhere in the world, or in-person in Glasgow.

Coalition members

350.org

ACORN

Anticapitalist Resistance

ASRAD-MALI

BFAWU

Biofuelwatch

Black Environmental Initiative

CAFOD

Campaign against Climate Change

CEMVO Scotland

Centre for Alternative Technology

Centre for Applied Buddhism

Center for Sustainable Development Initiative (CENSDI)

Christian Aid

Climadapt

Climate Craic

Climate Crisis Hub & Film Festival

Climate Emergency UK Ltd.

Climate Psychology Alliance

Climate Tracker

Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Coal Action Network

Collaboration for Change

Conflict and Environment Observatory

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)

Cyrog Enterprise Ltd

Demand Climate Justice

Democratic Left Scotland

Earth Strike

East and Southeast Asian (ESA) Scotland

Eco-Congregation Scotland

Eco Dharma Network

Eco-Dundee

ecoartscotland

Ecojustice Legal Action Centre

EcoNexus

Ecostage

Equity

ETC Group

Extinction Rebellion Scotland

FDA Union

Feminist Exchange Network

Force of Nature

Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Friends of the Earth Scotland

Global Center for Climate Justice

Global Ecosocialist Network

Global Justice Glasgow

Global Justice Now

Global Witness

GoBike

Greenpeace UK

Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers

Hamish the Highland Coo

Health Poverty Action

If Not Us Then Who?

Ignite Life (Ignite TV CIC)

International Development Education Association of Scotland

International Tibet Network

Islamic Relief UK Jubilee Scotland John Muir Trust

Kanlungan

Keep Scotland Beautiful

Landworkers’ Alliance

Learning for Sustainability Scotland

MEDACT

Migrants Organise

Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment (MORE)

Mothers Rise Up

Movement for the Abolition of War

Muslim Council of Scotland

mySociety

MY World México

National Union of Students (NUS)

Not1More

Nourish Scotland

Organic Growers of Fairlie

Our Kids’ Climate

Parents For Future UK

Parents for the Future Scotland

PCS Union

Pedal on Parliament

Permaculture Association (Britain)

Positive Money

Propagate (Scotland) CIC

Quakers in Britain

RADE

Radical Independence Campaign – Climate Group

Rapid Transition Alliance

Real Farming Trust

Reclaim the Power

RedGreen Labour

Rising Tide UK

ScotE3 (Employment, Energy and Environment)

Scotland Malawi Partnership

Scottish Artists Union

Scottish Communities Climate Action Network

Scottish Community Alliance

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

ScrapAntics

Socialists for Independence

Stop Ecocide International

Stop the JNF

Students for Global Health

Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK)

Surfers Against Sewage

System Change Not Climate Change

Take One Action Film Festivals

Tearfund

The Arkbound Foundation

The Hysteria Collective

The Robin Hood Tax

The Surefoot Effect, CIC

The X:talk Project

UK Youth Climate Coalition

UKSCN

UN House Scotland

UNISON

Unite Union

Unity Consulting Scotland Ltd.

University & College Union (UCU)

University & College Union Scotland

War on Want

Water Witness

Women’s Budget Group

Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International

Women’s Environmental Network (Wen)

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

Woodcraft Folk

Woodlands Community Development Trust

Wretched of the Earth

Young Friends of the Earth Scotland

Yes to Fair Redevelopment

Local members

Aberdeen Climate Action

Blackwater Valley Friends of the Earth

Bolton UNISON

Bristol Friends of the Earth Group

Bristol NEU

Cambridge Friends of the Earth

Cambridgeshire Climate Emergency

Carfree Glasgow

Divest Strathclyde

Dundee Trades Union Council

Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council

Edinburgh EIS

Edinburgh UCU

Friends of the Earth Tayside

Gate Church Carbon Saving Project

Get Glasgow Moving

Glasgow Buddhist Centre

Glasgow Calls Out Polluters

Glasgow Community Food Network

Glasgow COP Collective

GUEST – Glasgow University Environmental Sustainability Team

Interfaith Glasgow

Lambeth UNISON

Liverpool Friends of The Earth

London Hazards Centre

London Mining Network

Medway Trades Union Council

Ninewells Community Garden

North Staffordshire Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (NorSCARF)

Northant Friends of the Earth & Greenpeace

Our Air, Our City

Oxfordshire COP26 Climate Alliance

Penn Climate Action

Pontypridd Green Week

Sustainable Kirriemuir

The Edinburgh Remakery Ltd

Transition Edinburgh

Transition Stirling

Zero Carbon Llanidloes

Our key areas of work

Learning within our movements: We support civil society, especially in Scotland and the UK to use COP26 as a learning moment to strengthen our movement, and to mobilise behind strong climate justice demands. We will also help explain the basics of the negotiations, as well as all the issues from a climate justice perspective.

Centring voices of those most impacted: We support, train and coordinate to ensure that the voices of those most impacted by the climate crisis (for example, frontline and indigenous communities in the global south) are heard in the run up to and during the COP, transforming our movements in the process.

Logistics and international solidarity: We provide support, advice, and information for the visa process, travel arrangements and accommodation for global south participants.

People’s Summit and civil society spaces: We ensure civil society has spaces to meet and organise during COP26, including a counter summit as a focal point for events, mobilising, learning, strategising.

Mobilisations: We coordinate a mass civil society action during the COP, complementing other decentralised actions in run up to and during COP, by providing a coordination space to inform targets, messages and actions.

Developing transformative policy demands: We develop political narratives and frameworks that deepen the understanding and connections between demands for decarbonisation at the national level and the impacts of different approaches and solutions on the global south. These include the need for financial and technical support for those already being impacted by the multiple crisis of climate and inequality.

Decision making & structure

The Coalition’s decision-making body is the Coordinating Committee, composed of representatives from each of the Working Group and reflecting a the full range of constituencies represented in the Coalition. The Working Groups take forward the plans of the Coalition. The following Working Groups are currently operational:

Communications: the Communications Working Group is in charge of communicating key information and messages from the Coalition. The Working Group manages the Coalition’s social media channels and produces a fortnightly newsletter, The Rising Clyde. It also manages the Coalition’s traditional media work, including maintaining a spokesperson network.

Culture: the Culture Working Group coordinates artistic and creative work within the Coalition.

Fundraising: the Fundraising Working Group is composed of fundraisers from members of the Coalition who work together to secure the funds necessary to the work of the Coalition and manage a budget.

Glasgow Local: the Glasgow Local Working Group provides space for local movements and groups based in Glasgow to organise and build power ahead of and during COP26.

Global Solidarity: the Global Solidarity Working Group liaises with organisations and movements from around the world to inform the work of the Coalition, as well as to support these movements – especially in the Global South – to maximise their participation at COP26. The Working Group holds regular International Assemblies for this purpose.

Logistics: the Logistics Working Group is mostly composed of and works closely with Scottish groups to manage venue booking, accommodation, and visa support. The Working Group seeks to support Global South participation at COP26 in particular.

Mobilisations: the Mobilisations Working Group coordinates a variety plans for climate justice movements to mobilise in the run up to and during COP26.

Political Strategy: the Political Strategy Working Group is in charge of coordinating the Coalition’s demands and strategy relevant both to the “inside” policy arena and to the broader politics “outside” the negotiations.

The Coalition has also formed or is in the process of forming several caucuses, including a Trade Union caucus, Youth caucus, and People of Colour caucus. Source