COP31 People’s Summit Workshop
What makes a climate solution “false”, and what makes change genuinely transformative?
This participatory workshop will explore and test the methodology of the Gender-Just Real Solutions Map, a collaborative initiative developed by the Global Forest Coalition together with member groups and allies from across the Global South.
Starting from the realities of false climate solutions and extractive pressures affecting territories, participants will work together using popular education methodologies to identify community-led real solutions, the conditions that allow them to flourish, and the systemic barriers they face.
Rather than presenting the Map as a finished product, the workshop will invite participants to actively test and strengthen its methodology. Together, we will explore what makes a solution genuinely rights-based, gender-just, community-led and non-market-based, drawing on participants’ own territorial experiences and connecting struggles against false solutions with the alternatives already being built.
The workshop will also provide an opportunity to learn how to contribute initiatives to the Map and continue participating in its development.
Event details
Date: Sunday, 15 November 2026
Time: 15:10–16:40
Duration: 90 minutes
Venue: Mimar Sinan Congress Centre, currently Room 3, Silva / Forest
Axis: Rights of Nature against Ecological Destruction
Cocoon: Emission Reduction and Fake Solutions
Organisers: Global Forest Coalition, with participation from GFC members, PLACJC and other allies.
Participation: The workshop is open to all and does not require pre-registration. Participants are encouraged to join and share the invitation within their networks.
