RENEW OUR POWER GATHERING

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In April 2025, we are hosting the ‘Renew Our Power Gathering’ in Brasilia, Brazil to scale up community-led renewable projects. With +275 people participating in person and thousands from across the globe tuning in to virtual sessions, we will unlock people’s agency through skills training, workshops, and sharing stories!

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ABOUT RENEW OUR POWER

All around the world, people have shown we want a safer planet to pass onto future generations – one that runs on renewable, affordable and accessible energy for all.

We know the money for making this happen is there: governments, public funds, development banks, private sector companies and especially those who disproportionately drive the climate crisis – the mega polluters and ultra-rich – are some key players that need to fund the upgrade of our energy systems towards fair and accessible renewables. And not only that: they should ensure those least served by the current failed system are the first in line to benefit from a just energy transition.

The Renew Our Power Gathering is a hybrid event that will connect thousands of people from around the world through keynote events, workshops, and cultural sessions to catalyze renewable energy projects led by and in favor of communities.

We don’t want just new energy systems, but better and more democratic ones: taking power away from fossil fuel corporations, and putting it in the hands of people. And, together, we can achieve it.

It’s time to reclaim our power to rebuild our world!

We need to act now, with speed and in scale. Renew Our Power will equip our movement to rapidly boost a just energy transition across the globe!

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Join the Renew Our Power Virtual Gathering

The Renew Our Power Gathering is a hybrid event that will connect thousands of people from around the world through keynote events, workshops and skill-share sessions to catalyze community-owned renewables across the globe.

To RSVP for the virtual gathering, please fill out your information below. In the weeks ahead, we’ll share more information on the sessions and speakers you can expect, and how and when to join each session.

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WHAT’S INSPIRING THE GATHERING

Indigenous Leadership

The gathering will happen in Brazil’s capital city, Brasília. That’s where every month of April indigenous peoples from all around the country come together at Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) to protest and stand for their rights. Their leadership is common to Indigenous peoples worldwide: It puts life before profit and understands human beings and nature as one.

If we are to halt the climate crisis, the world must follow this leadership. We must hear and act on the demands of Indigenous and frontline communities of Brazil and worldwide.

Macaréu

A macaréu is a tidal wave formed when a large river and the ocean meet. The two forces create a powerful, almost unstoppable wave that moves upriver with enough power to shift and change the landscape.

Where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean—locally named Pororoca—macaréus are common. Like the macaréu, our vision is to create a mighty, unstoppable wave of global action. This wave will power community-led renewable energy projects around the world.

Building Momentum towards COP30

COP30 is the UN's climate summit in 2025 and is a halfway point towards the end of this critical decade. It is being called "The People's COP" and "The COP of the Amazon". There, countries must agree to financial targets to triple renewable energy by 2030.

The Renew Our Power Gathering is a major moment on the road to COP 30. We will bring together climate leaders from every corner of the globe. Together, we will ramp up pressure on governments and build the solutions our climate depends on.

SPEAKERS

At Renew Our Power, participants will meet and hear with dozens of movement leaders from across Latin America, Africa, the Pacific and beyond. Together, we will create a tidal wave of action to build a future of fair access to renewable energy for all!

 

Meet some of our speakers:

Serena Mendizabal is a Cayuga Wolf Clan and Panamanian woman from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in so-called-Canada. As a community-based researcher, grassroots organizer, and environmental advocate, her work with Sacred Earth Solar enables self-determined, just climate futures for the Indigenous communities.

Alana Manchineri is an Indigenous leader from the Manchineri people in the Brazilian state of Acre. As Communication Manager at the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (Coiab), she plays a key role in advocating for Indigenous rights and environmental protection of the Amazon.

Edwin Mumbere is the Director of the Centre for Citizens Conserving Environment & Management (CECIC) and part of the REPOwer Afrika campaign. He fights for renewable energy and gender equality in Uganda, and his leadership has transformed lives by providing sustainable solutions and promoting economic independence for women.

Ruth Santiago is a renowned lawyer and climate justice activist from Puerto Rico. She is determined to challenge private interests controlling the energy production and supply sector, advocating for community ownership to make Puerto Rico’s energy system more resilient to climate impacts.

PROGRAMME

Science is clear: to keep global warming to safe levels, we need to stop fossil fuels and triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. We have the money and the blueprints for transforming our energy systems with solar and wind power produced within our communities, creating  jobs and fostering local economies. 

Our Renew Our Power’s programme will give you the hard skills and inspiration to develop renewable energy projects in your community, fight for better energy policies and build connections to people around the globe fighting for a renewable energy future.

Throughout three different tracks, as well as keynote panels, assemblies and other sessions, facilitators will support speakers and participants to explore foundational elements of building a safe and just future for all!

 

Our tracks:

    • Our Own Power: skills and tools for grassroots organizing to win distributed renewable energy.
    • Renewables as Resistance: strategies for disrupting energy systems and the unlocking a just transition.
    • Accelerating Renewables: policy, finance and legal levers to unleash renewable energy.

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Want to become a partner on the Renew Our Power Gathering? Reach out to renewourpower@350.org 

 

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