Global Heat, Local Power: Community Climate Lessons Across Borders

​Climate solutions built without community input tend to fail the communities they claim to serve. This panel, centering Black women leading climate work across New York, London, and Montreal, traces what's been learned and lost when local knowledge is left off the design table. Panelists bring lived, cross-border experience to the session's core question: who gets to design the technologies shaping the climate transition? Expect a grounded look at what community-led power actually looks like in practice.

​Moderated by Kerene Tayloe, with panelists Tonya Gayle, Wawa Gatheru, and Gillian Benneh.

​Agenda

• ​1:00 – 2:00 PM — Registration + Lunch

• ​2:30 – 3:20 PM — Panel 2: Global Heat, Local Power: Community Climate Lessons Across Borders

• ​3:20 – 3:30 PM — Closing Remarks