The coronavirus pandemic has forced climate campaigners to reflect. With social distancing measures preventing protesters from taking to the streets, the movement is finding other ways to be heard.

On 14 May, 2020, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) hosted a webinar to discuss how the climate movement has mobilised online and whether the long-term goals of activism will change as a result of this global shock.

The panellists were: Farhana Yamin, an internationally recognised climate lawyer, author, speaker and social justice activist; Ineza Umuhoza Grace, the founder and chief executive officer of The Green Fighter, an impact driven youth organisation in Rwanda; Vanessa Nakate, a climate activist in Uganda and founder of the Rise Up Climate Movement; and Sam Greene, a senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group. The event was chaired by IIED director Andrew Norton .

The webinar addressed questions such as:

*Can the climate movement momentum be maintained and to what degree?
*Will the lack of street protests set us back in terms of getting a good outcome from COP26? Or could online activism nurture new strategies for engaging people, deepen alliances, and open new opportunities for the movement?
*How will the goals and tactics of climate activism adapt to the huge global shock of the pandemic?

More details: https://www.iied.org/climate-activism-time-covid-19