Friends, Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22, 2020, please join Elizabeth Bunn, our Maryland State Director and National Policy Director, and me at the virtual Climate Jobs and Just Transition Summit, which starts online at 9 a.m. Eastern. You can learn more and register here » Hosted by the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Worker Center at Cornell University, this event will bring together labor leaders, union climate activists, environmental and environmental justice advocates, clean-energy developers, policymakers, scientists, and anyone who wants to build the clean-energy economy of tomorrow with good union jobs. The Summit convenes during this week's Climate Week NYC and features speakers and panelists from around the world. You can sign up for the entire Summit and pick and choose the subjects or speakers you find most interesting here. We highly encourage you to tune into all or as much of this event as possible to hear from this powerful and renowned group of speakers on topics related to just transition. Sessions will explore the ways climate change and inequality are inextricably linked, dig into specific opportunities for bold climate action and building new industries, and engage in a holistic discussion about just transition for workers in fossil fuel industries and their communities. Below are the sessions where we will appear:
Securing an Effective Just Transition: What Do We Want? How Do We Win It?
2 p.m. Eastern
Tuesday, September 22 Featuring: Chair: Mijin Cha
Assistant Professor, Occidental College Eddie Bautista
Executive Director, NYC Environmental Justice Alliance Michael Leon Guerrero
Executive Director, Labor Network for Sustainability John J. Murphy
International Representative United Association of Journeymen and Apprentice of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the US and Canada Samantha Smith
Director, Just Transition Centre Register now »
Concurrent Sessions, Round 2
Session 2: Strong Unions, Sustainable Transport: Building a 21St Century Transportation System 4:20 p.m. Eastern
Tuesday, September 22 Chair: JP Patafio Vice President, Transport Workers Union Local 100 Elizabeth Bunn
Labor Network for Sustainability and Former Director, Organizing Department for the AFL-CIO Alana Dave
Urban Transport Director, International Transport Workers Federation Micah Mitrosky
Environmental Organizer, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 569 Michael Yee
Director, Educational and Cultural Trust Fund of the Electrical Industry
At a time that calls for public investment on a scale not seen since the Great Depression, let’s make sure we’re investing in the economy of the future. Let’s make sure we take action at a scale climate science demands. Let’s make sure that we take on three crises at once: the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and the crisis of extreme inequality that cannot be ignored. In solidarity,
Michael Leon Guerrero
Executive Director, Labor Network for Sustainability
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