About the Summit

The Conference of All Life (COAL) is an immersive climate negotiation summit involving over one hundred Brown students, staff, faculty, and alumni.

 

COAL comes at a crossroads when climate negotiations struggle to fix their structural dysfunction, rights of nature law continue to set global precedents, and higher education attempts to cultivate systems thinkers capable of critically inheriting the unjust socio-ecological history in which it is entangled.

 

By including a multi-species set of delegations, we hope to unearth novel modes of non-human representation, thereby disrupting status quo climate negotiation frameworks, and introducing participants to the complexity of political ecology while pushing for the inclusion of "more-than-human" perspectives.