BIPOC Climate Justice Summit

Join us for the 5th annual BIPOC Climate Justice Summit: Power Shift, a full-day public event launching NYC Climate Week at Columbia University. This year’s summit convenes frontline communities, organizers, researchers, funders, and public servants to build collective power and advance transformative climate justice.

This summit aims to catalyze global collaboration to drive progress on climate justice, particularly across the following themes:

• 🔁 The Power Shift - Elevating frontline leadership, movement diplomacy, and community mandates in the lead-up to COP30 and beyond.

• 🧠 The Knowledge Shift - Confronting extractive systems of science, law, and philanthropy while uplifting collective wisdom and decolonized knowledge.

• 🏛️ The Policy Shift - Exploring how local and federal governments can redistribute power through participatory governance and justice-centered decision-making.

• 🌱 The System Shift - Grounding climate justice in reparations, mutual aid, land back, and regenerative practices led by BIPOC communities.

• ✊ Mutual Aid as Strategy - Highlighting mutual aid not as charity, but as a foundational, reparative practice and organizing model for a just climate future.

Through dynamic panels, interactive booths, and creative activations, this gathering aims to ignite alignment across sectors and build momentum for the shifts needed to deliver climate justice. The summit is led by the HBCU Green Fund, Donors of Color Network and ACE Observatory, with Columbia University as host partner.