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| With Ethan Young (Subregional Coordinator, Public Services Internat'l (PSI) North America), Brian Kamanzi (Researcher, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy), Andres Chiriboga (Dir. Finance for Industrial Transformation, I3t), Mathew Lawrence (Founder & Dir., Common Wealth), Johanna Bozuwa (Dir., Climate & Community Institute), Lala Pearanda (Latin America Coordinator, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy). |
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Sep 22 (Tue) @ 02:00 PM
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TUED X Climate Week NYC at CUNY School for Labor & Urban Studies
The Public Pathway as Energy Internationalism: Reclaiming Energy for the Common Good, Workers, Communities, & Just Development
Location: CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies
Address: 25 W 43rd St 19th floor, New York, NY 10036
Date: Tuesday September 22, 2026 @ 2:00-4:00pm
Confirmed Speakers:
Ethan Young, Public Services International (PSI) North America Subregional Coordinator
Brian Kamanzi, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, Researcher
Andres Chiriboga, I3t - Industry, Infrastructures, & Innovation for Strategic Transformation, Director of Finance for Industrial Transformation
Mathew Lawrence, Common Wealth, Founder & Director
Johanna Bozuwa, Climate & Community Institute, Executive Director
Lala Pearanda (moderator), Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, Latin America Coordinator
This Climate Week NYC 2026 event will bring together trade unionists, researchers, & movement allies to examine the growing international momentum behind the Public Pathway, a union-led approach to energy transition based on public ownership, democratic planning, public finance, & energy as a public good. The discussion will situate current energy debates within the wider global crisis of neoliberal green growth, where transition policy has too often relied on private investors, de-risking schemes, & market incentives that fail to deliver universal access, decent work, or rapid system transformation.
The panel will highlight emerging struggles & proposals from Latin America & the Caribbean, Africa, Asia-Pacific, & North America, asking what it means for unions to reclaim energy systems from a market-led approach & rebuild them around social need, sovereignty, & democratic control. Speakers will discuss examples such as Mexico's post-neoliberal electricity agenda, public energy debates in Latin America, South-South cooperation, & the role of unions in defending public utilities while pushing them toward a stronger public-goods mandate.
The event will also ask how international solidarity can move beyond statements & become practical cooperation: shared research, political education, worker-to-worker exchanges, & coordinated responses to privatization, trade/investment pressures, & climate finance models that weaken public systems. The goal is to make the Public Pathway visible during Climate Week as a serious global alternative: not simply more public ownership in the abstract, but a concrete strategy for energy democracy, just transition, & development led by workers & communities.
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