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The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism in response to Climate emergency. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages ...Near you.

Because of the time lag in the carbon system, and due to our past emissions - we are still going to experience a certain level of climate change. Even if we stopped all emissions tomorrow we would expect another 30-40 years of temperature rise, and more than a century of sea-level rise.[1]

  • News The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres, BBC News (Nov 04, 2024)
  • News Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Oct 28, 2024)
  • News If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor, Tim Winton, theguardian.com (Oct 26, 2024)

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Topic, resource and news articles[edit | edit source]

Networks[edit | edit source]

  • Cop26 coalition, Climate Justice Movement at COP26, added 10:58, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
  • Different kinds of CANs keep opening up…here’s a range of “Climate Action Networks’, heading for COP26 in Glasgow, May 20, 2021 thealternative.org.uk
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Women4Climate: Leading transformative change worldwide
Authors: C40 Cities, Mar 8, 2021
  • Women 4 Climate, added 12:00, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
  • Rapid Transition Alliance, "Rapid economic transition, including widespread behaviour change to sustainable lifestyles, is necessary to live within planetary ecological boundaries and to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees." "Our content is published under a Creative Commons license, meaning you are free to share and adapt it."[2]

Events[edit | edit source]

  • Event Sep 15 & 17, 2023 (Fri & Sun) — Global climate strike Friday, fightfossilfuels.net
  • Event Dec 11, 2024 (Wed) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org
  • Event Mar 01, 2025 (Sat)World Seagrass Day, Mar 1, annually. Raising awareness about seagrass and its important functions in the marine ecosystem.
  • Event Mar 20, 2025 (Thu) — World Rewilding Day, March 20, annually, rewildingeurope.com
  • Event Apr 22, 2025 (Tue) — Earth Day, April 22, annually, earthday.org
  • Event May 20, 2025 (Tue) — World Bee Day, May 20 each year, fao.org
  • Event Jun 17, 2025 (Tue) — World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, each June 17, un.org
  • Event Aug 09, 2025 (Sat) — International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population, un.org
  • Event Aug 12, 2025 (Tue) — International Youth Day, awareness day designated by the United Nations taking place on Aug 12 each year, un.org

Visions[edit | edit source]

In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how, Eric Holthaus, Jan 8, 2020[3]

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With a Green New Deal, here's what the world could look like for the next generation, Dec 5, 2018[4]

Community action projects[edit | edit source]

Community is used widely to be a group that gets together such as an association, but also includes municipalities with communal governance structures. Here more formal structures that comply with legal requirements or duties imposed by higher authorities may also give frameworks for action. For example planning can be done in a participatory way.

There may be national plans, local, community, neighbourhood or regional plans or design statements or climate action plans. For example, see: Neighbourhood Planning, UK

  • other Community action for sustainability. Of course many other kinds of action can help reduce emissions, such as actions in support of localism, Sustainable transport, etc. See more topics: here, or here

Climate emergency[edit | edit source]

Main article... Climate emergency

A climate emergency declaration or climate emergency plan, declaring a state of climate emergency, has been issued since 2016 by certain countries and other jurisdictions to set priorities to mitigate climate change.

Sea level rise[edit | edit source]

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Coastal Cities' Futures Depend on Today’s Climate Decisions
Authors: climatecentral, Oct 12, 2021

Societies can adapt to sea level rise in three different ways: implement managed retreat, accommodate coastal change, or protect against sea level rise through hard-construction practices like seawalls or soft approaches such as dune rehabilitation and beach nourishment. Sometimes these adaptation strategies go hand in hand, but at other times choices have to be made among different strategies. For some human environments, such as so called sinking cities, adaptation to sea level rise may be compounded by other environmental issues such as subsidence. Natural ecosystems typically adapt to rising sea levels by moving inland; however, they might not always be able to do so, due to natural or artificial barriers. W

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Land projected to be below annual flood level in 2030 and beyond, coastal.climatecentral.org

Sea Level Rise, information from climatecentral.org

Climate change fairness, justice and peace[edit | edit source]

"Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."[5]

Climate justice action[edit | edit source]

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Sharing stories and insights on communicating climate justice at Ticket to the Future
Authors: Climate Outreach, Oct 26, 2023
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Climate justice is a type of environmental justice that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. Climate justice seeks to achieve an equitable distribution of both the burdens of climate change and the efforts to mitigate climate change. The economic burden of climate change mitigation is estimated by some at around 1% to 2% of GDP. Climate justice examines concepts such as equality, human rights, collective rights, justice and the historical responsibilities for climate change.

see also: Climate justice

Climate change and inequality[edit | edit source]

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How climate change is making inequality worse - BBC News
Authors: BBC News, Sep 27, 2021

“Unless the burden of poverty in developing nations is alleviated by significant financial support for mitigation, adaptation, and the reduction of deforestation, the ability of developing countries to pursue sustainable development is likely to diminish, to the economic and environmental detriment of all.” 22 leading climate scientists[6]

Why climate change is a women’s issue[edit | edit source]

"Women are more likely to die or suffer the long term consequences of the rising tide of natural disasters and resource wars unleashed by climate change, and are largely excluded from the search for solutions,"[7] see also Networks

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1 Million Women

Youth groups and climate action[edit | edit source]

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The Youth Climate Movement (YouNGO) or International Youth Climate Movement (IYCM) refers to an international network of youth organizations that collectively aims to inspire, empower and mobilise a generational movement of young people to take positive action on climate change. W

see also: Campaigns, Climate news, Legal resources, News and comment

Campaigns[edit | edit source]

Extinction Rebellion[edit | edit source]

Main article: Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a socio-political movement with the stated aim of using civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.

Parents For Future[edit | edit source]

Supporters - Parents For Future UK

FridaysForFuture[edit | edit source]

FridaysForFuture

Global Climate Strike For Future Event, Mar 15, 2019, on facebook

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School strike for climate[edit | edit source]

School strike for climate, also known in various regions as Fridays for the Future, Youth for climate or Youth strike 4 climate, is a growing international movement of children and students leaving their school to take part in demonstrations for climate action.

The first school strike for climate was started by Greta Thunberg staging an action outside the Swedish Riksdag (parliament), holding a sign that read "Skolstrejk för klimatet" or "school strike for climate" during August 2018. W

Schools for Climate Action

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Citizens' Climate Lobby[edit | edit source]

Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL) is an international grassroots environmental group that trains and supports volunteers to build relationships with their elected representatives in order to influence climate policy. The CCL is a registered 501(c) with approximately $300 thousand in revenue in the United States in 2015. Operating since 2007, the goal of CCL is to build political support across party lines to put a price on carbon, specifically a revenue neutral carbon fee and dividend (CF&D) at the national level. CCL is supported by notable climate scientists James Hansen, Katharine Hayhoe, and Daniel Kammen. CCL's advisory board also includes former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, former US Representative Bob Inglis, actor Don Cheadle, and RESULTS founder Sam Daley-Harris.

Founded in the United States, CCL has groups in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, India, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, the Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

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Other campaigns[edit | edit source]

  • Open Climate Campaign, The complexity of the climate crisis requires global, national, and local actions informed by multidisciplinary research. added 09:55, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
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The People's Fight: How We Halt the Climate Crisis
Authors: 350.org, Jan 27, 2021
  • 350.org, international environmental organization encouraging citizens to action with the belief that publicizing the increasing levels of carbon dioxide will pressure world leaders to address climate change and to reduce levels from 400 parts per million to 350 parts per million. It was founded by author Bill McKibben with the goal of building a global grassroots movement to raise awareness about anthropogenic climate change, to confront climate change denial, and to cut emissions of carbon dioxide in order to slow the rate of global warming. 350.org takes its name from the research of Goddard Institute for Space Studies scientist James E. Hansen, who posited in a 2007 paper that 350 parts-per-million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere is a safe upper limit to avoid a climate tipping point. W
  • Fossil Free, Divest for Paris
  • TckTckTck, the Global Call for Climate Action
  • Climate Counts, non-profit campaign that scores companies annually on the basis of their voluntary action to reverse climate change. The Climate Counts Company Scorecard—launched in June 2007—helps people vote with their dollars by making climate-conscious purchasing and investing choices that put pressure on the world's most well-known companies to take the issue of climate change seriously. Climate Counts aims to mobilize everyday consumers—not just the traditional environmental community—as the most important activists in the fight against global warming. W

What individuals can do[edit | edit source]

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Authors: The JUMP, Sep 30, 2020
  • The Jump, added 14:14, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
  • Individual action on climate change W
  • 52 Climate Actions permaculture inspired website that gives people actions to help them reduce their carbon footprint, adapt to climate change, and embrace a low carbon culture.
  • Climate Council's Climate Action Toolkit

Controversy over promoting individual action on climate change[edit | edit source]

See: Citizen participation in climate change policy advocacy W and
Nov 9, 2019 Climate change deniers’ new battle front attacked[8]

“Of course, individual action needs to be part of the battle, but not as a substitute for policy reform. It should be as an additional component." Michael Mann, professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University[9]

Near you[edit | edit source]

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See also[edit | edit source]

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References

  1. Climate change is happening now - world needs to respond urgently, Defra, April 6 2007 (link not found May 2015)
  2. rapidtransition.org
  3. thecorrespondent.com
  4. theintercept.com
  5. The Nobel Peace Prize 2007, October 12 2007
  6. Repeating Islands, July 9, 2009
  7. WEN press release September 12 2006 (link not found May 2015)
  8. The Guardian
  9. The Guardian Nov 9, 2019
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