COP26 Report-Back & Discussion: Now What?

Osprey Orielle Lake is executive director of the Women’s Environment and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, which she founded in 2007 to accelerate a global women’s climate justice movement. She has worked nationally and internationally with grassroots and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and scientists to promote climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized energy future. Osprey lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, within the territories of the Coast Miwok people.

John Foran teaches sociology and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is an activist in the global climate justice movement and the creation of systemic alternatives beyond capitalism.  His work can be found at NXTerra, IICAT, and the Eco Vista Climate Justice Press, and his activism takes place with Eco Vista, Transition US, the Ecoversities Alliance, and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives. He is an active member of System Change Not Climate Change.

Asad Rehman is executive director of the UK-based War on Want, where he organizes to end poverty and injustice, reframing climate change as an issue of racialized capitalism. Previously he was the international climate lead at Friends of the Earth. In his 25+ years in nongovernmental work, Asad has served on boards of Amnesty International UK, Friends of the Earth International, Global Justice Now, and Newham Monitoring Project.
 

Yeb Sano is a climate justice activist from the Philippines. A recovering climate negotiator, he was previously the chief climate negotiator for the Philippines championing climate justice in UN climate talks. He currently leads the diverse campaigns and operations of Greenpeace in Southeast Asia, including the CJ and liability work to hold the world’s biggest emitters accountable for the climate crisis. Yeb serves as vice-chair of the Laudato Si' Movement (the Global Catholic Climate Movement) and board member of 350.org.