Time for Change – Feminist Climate Ambassadors Online Training

About this Event:

On Saturday, December 12th, the second webinar of this Feminist Climate Ambassadors online training will once again gather together the participants to the training and top experts from around the world.

Whereas in the first webinar the focus was on introducing the subject as well as the current media- and political environment on the intersections of climate crisis and gender equality, this week the ambassadors will gain concrete tools for carrying out their own activism, with a particular emphasis on different opportunities on social media.

The second training day will end with a roundtable discussion, where experts from different fields will get together to discuss how the feminist approach should influence the climate policy.

Context:

Our aim is to build bridges across Europe for feminist climate change advocates and activists. This 9-week training will equip selected Feminist Climate Ambassadors with the tools needed to get their message through in their own region and media. This will support sustainable and feminist community-level impact across the region. In addition, the training provides space for more political level conversation on the intersections of gender and climate change.

Programme:

Saturday, December 11^th: 10am – 4pm (CET)

10.00 Introduction to the day

10.15–11.00 Parallel workshops on outreach strategies

1. 1. 1. From an idea into a podcast – planning, production and building an audience.

Rebecca Armstrong is a podcast producer, running her own podcast #2050 since 2017, and an advocate for local sustainable development.

2. Community management: How to get started?

Katriina Penttilä is an expert on social media and online community building through her day job as a community manager for game communities of millions of players across the world, work as a Women in Games ambassador and volunteering at one of the biggest Finnish feminist activist collectives @cvltcvnth.

11.00-11.45 Making the change: how to promote feminist and climate issues through campaigning and social media influencing? How to act if you face harassment in social media?

11.45-12.45 Lunch break

13.00 Workshops: Feminist Climate Ambassadors as change makers

Working in small groups, reflecting on the lessons so far and planning the joint outreach.

14.15 Round table conversation: How feminist approach should and could influence the climate policy?

Host: Zahra Karimy

Panelists: Ville Niinistö (Member of European Parliament, Finland); Sara Nyman (Climate Activist and former delegate for Finnish young in UN); Sarah Parry (Senior Lecturer, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh); Oury Traore (African feminist activist and an international consultant on Peace & Security); Atti Worku (founder and CEO, Seeds of Africa)

15.30 Conclusion and next steps

Practicalities:

This is a closed event.

This webinar is only for participants of the Feminist Climate Ambassadors training. If you are not in the training, but are interested to learn more about this topic, you can watch the recording from our Feminists in the Climate Movement Conference which was held in May 2020.