Past mobilisation: 2023 People's Forum

What was the People’s Forum?

In June 2023, environmental defenders, climate activists and finance experts came together in Basel to discuss and develop collective plans to bring fossil finance under control, while challenging a major financial institution – the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). One of the outcomes of the meeting was the Basel Manifesto, where the different people across movements from various points of the globe express unified demands that entail the systemic change of our financial system alongside climate justice.

The Forum consists of a series of events dedicated to exchange and mutual learning between different political perspectives and organisational cultures (*). Through its various activities, the Forum also aims to reach out to a wider audience, in particular to increase the visibility of the experiences of communities affected by the expansion of fossil fuels, and to put the question of democratising and decolonising the financial system back on the agenda.