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== What communities can do ==
{{topico}}
*become low carbon communities, or develop a [[Community climate action plan]]
*promote the sharing of climate change and CO2 data
*participatory carbon budgeting
*organise climate action events
*join climate action networks
*Emissions Reduction Community based currency schemes
*advocate natural climate solutions


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.
{{Newslist|keyword=Climate|limit=3}}


There may be national plans, local, community, neighbourhood or regional plans or design statements or climate action plans.
{{Read more|Climate news}}


* [https://www.cse.org.uk/downloads/reports-and-publications/policy/community-energy/energy-advice/planning/renewables/low-carbon-neighbourhood-planning-guidebook.pdf Low Carbon Neighbourhood Planning]
This page is the beginnings of a portal for community action in response to [[Climate emergency]]. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages ...[[Community action for sustainability#Near you|Near you]].


== What individuals can do==
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.<ref>Climate change is happening now - world needs to respond urgently, [http://web.archive.org/web/20081108024522/http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2007/070406a.htm Defra], April 6 2007 ''(link not found May 2015)''</ref>


*Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:Individual action on climate change|Individual action on climate change]]
== Topic, resource and news articles ==
*[https://www.52climateactions.com| 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 [https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/actions/download-your-climate-action-toolkit/?fbclid=IwAR3LDAzP1fkG-hyLtNNgYn_BEKumVMmI0_C7W5muZiYIdknyrK8H6u1gaO0 Climate Action Toolkit]


== Campaigns ==
* [[Climate news]]
* [[Climate action resources]]
* [[Climate change solutions]], [[Climate change solutions news|News]]
* [[List of climate assemblies]], [[Climate assemblies news and comment|News]]
* [[Climate emergency]]
* [[Extinction Rebellion]]


=== Extinction Rebellion ===
== Networks ==


'''''See separate article:''''' [[Extinction Rebellion]]
* [https://cop26coalition.org/ 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 [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2021/5/22/climate-action-networks-everywhere thealternative.org.uk]


=== Parents For Future ===
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| title = Women4Climate: Leading transformative change worldwide
| authors = C40 Cities, Mar 8, 2021
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[https://www.parentsforfuture.org.uk/supporters Supporters - Parents For Future UK]
* [https://w4c.org/ Women 4 Climate], ''added 12:00, 8 March 2021 (UTC)''
* [https://www.rapidtransition.org/ 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."<ref>[https://www.rapidtransition.org/about/ rapidtransition.org]</ref>


=== FridaysForFuture ===
== Events ==


[https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/ FridaysForFuture]
{{Eventlist|location=world|keyword=climate|year=2024}}


Global Climate Strike For Future Event, Mar 15, 2019, on [https://www.facebook.com/events/1994180377345229/ facebook]
== Visions ==


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In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how, Eric Holthaus, Jan 8, 2020<ref>[https://thecorrespondent.com/214/in-2030-we-ended-the-climate-emergency-heres-how/28330740746-6b15af77 thecorrespondent.com]</ref>


=== School strike for climate ===
[[File:TAG Climate Protest Future.jpg|120px|thumb]]


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.
With a Green New Deal, here's what the world could look like for the next generation, Dec 5, 2018<ref>[https://theintercept.com/2018/12/05/green-new-deal-proposal-impacts/ theintercept.com]</ref>


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|School strike for climate}}
== Community action projects ==


[https://schoolsforclimateaction.weebly.com/ Schools for Climate Action]
* Climate emergency centres ...''see'': [[Climate action UK#Climate emergency centres|Climate action UK, Climate emergency centres]]
* Climate assemblies ...[[List of climate assemblies]]
* become low carbon communities, or develop a [[Community climate action plan]]
* promote the sharing of climate change and CO2 data
* [[Participatory carbon budgeting]]
* organise climate action events
* join climate action networks or any other network supporting action towards a carbon free future, or if there isn't one local enough to you, start one
* Emissions Reduction Community based currency schemes
* advocate natural climate solutions
* promote [[Climate change solutions#Carbon literacy|carbon literacy]]


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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.


=== Citizens' Climate Lobby ===
There may be national plans, local, community, neighbourhood or regional plans or design statements or climate action plans. For example, ''see'': [[Urban sustainability UK#Neighbourhood Planning|Neighbourhood Planning, UK]]


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.
* 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'': [[Climate action#See also|here]], or [[CASwiki topics|here]]


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]].
== Climate emergency ==


{{W|Citizens' Climate Lobby}}
''Main article''... [[Climate emergency]]


=== Other links ===
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.


[http://350.org/ 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|350.org}}
== Sea level rise ==


[http://gofossilfree.org/paris/ Fossil Free, Divest for Paris]
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| title = Coastal Cities' Futures Depend on Today’s Climate Decisions
| authors = climatecentral, Oct 12, 2021
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[http://tcktcktck.org/ TckTckTck], the Global Call for Climate Action
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|Sea level rise}}


== Why it matters ==
'''Maps'''


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. <ref> Climate change is happening now - world needs to respond urgently, [http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2007/070406a.htm Defra], April 6 2007 ''(link not found May 2015)''</ref>
Land projected to be below annual flood level in 2030 and beyond, [https://coastal.climatecentral.org/map/6/90.3444/23.5438/?theme=sea_level_rise&map_type=year&basemap=roadmap&contiguous=true&elevation_model=best_available&forecast_year=2030&pathway=ssp3rcp70&percentile=p50&refresh=true&return_level=return_level_1&rl_model=gtsr&slr_model=ipcc_2021_med coastal.climatecentral.org]


=== Climate change fairness, justice and peace ===
Sea Level Rise, information from [https://www.climatecentral.org/what-we-do/our-programs/sea-level-rise climatecentral.org]
"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." <ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/press.html The Nobel Peace Prize 2007], October 12 2007 </ref>


=== Climate justice ===
== Climate change fairness, justice and peace ==
Recognizing and addressing the fact that those least responsible for climate change experience its greatest impacts is seen by many as being central to climate justice. {{W|Climate justice}}


=== Climate change and inequality ===
"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."<ref>[https://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/press.html The Nobel Peace Prize 2007], October 12 2007</ref>


“Unless the burden of poverty in developing nations is alleviated by significant financial support for mitigation, [[Climate change adaption|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 <ref>[http://repeatingislands.com/2009/07/09/caricom-and-climate-challenges-for-the-caribbean/ Repeating Islands], July 9, 2009 </ref>
== Climate justice action ==


=== Why climate change is a women’s issue ===
{{Video
"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," <ref>
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| title = Sharing stories and insights on communicating climate justice at Ticket to the Future
| authors = Climate Outreach, Oct 26, 2023
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[http://www.1millionwomen.com.au/ 1 Million Women]
''see also'': [[Climate justice]]


== Emissions Reduction Community based currency schemes ==
== Climate change and inequality ==


A community based emissions reduction currency scheme is a C4 type local currency in which local currency issues are backed by the emissions reductions of the schemes members. The local currency, when accepted for trade by other members or local businesses, thereby rewards participants for their efforts at global warming prevention. These currencies may have various degrees of convertibility into carbon saved, renewable energy, or national currency. {{W|Emissions Reduction Currency System#Community based currency schemes}}
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| title = How climate change is making inequality worse - BBC News
| authors = BBC News, Sep 27, 2021
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== Low Carbon Communities ==
“Unless the burden of poverty in developing nations is alleviated by significant financial support for mitigation, [[Climate change adaption|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<ref>[https://repeatingislands.com/2009/07/09/caricom-and-climate-challenges-for-the-caribbean/ Repeating Islands], July 9, 2009</ref>


The Low Carbon Communities network is a UK based network of communities and organisations working to halt global warming as far as is possible. {{W|Low Carbon Communities}} / [http://www.lowcarboncommunities.org/ Low Carbon Communities]
== Why climate change is a women’s issue ==


== Open CO2 ==
"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,"<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20091223121632/http://www.wen.org.uk:80/general_pages/Newsitems/pr_climatechange_12.9.06.htm WEN press release] September 12 2006 ''(link not found May 2015)''</ref> ''see also [[Climate action#Networks|Networks]]


Open CO2 is a project to help crowdsource open carbon accounts for local communities worldwide. It can also be about carbon literacy, encouraging ourselves to learn more about what the available data might show.
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Open local carbon accounts would help make possible [[Participatory carbon budgeting]]. ''See separate article:'' [[Open CO2]]


[[File:PurpleLondon004.jpg|left]]<br clear=left>
[https://www.1millionwomen.com.au/ 1 Million Women]


== Participatory carbon budgeting ==
== Youth groups and climate action ==


The idea is to combine two other ideas: participatory budgeting {{W|Participatory budgeting}} and a carbon budget for an area, typically a large town or city. ''See separate article:'' [[Participatory carbon budgeting]]
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== Natural climate solutions ==
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|Youth Climate Movement}}


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''see also'': [[Climate action#Campaigns|Campaigns]], [[Climate news]], [[Legal resources#News and comment|Legal resources, News and comment]]


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== Campaigns ==


[https://www.naturalclimate.solutions/ Natural Climate Solutions]
=== Extinction Rebellion ===


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''Main article:'' [[Extinction Rebellion]]


__TOC__
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.


== News and comment ==
=== Parents For Future ===


''See separate article'': [[Climate news]]
[https://www.parentsforfuture.org.uk/supporters Supporters - Parents For Future UK]


== Events ==
=== FridaysForFuture ===


'''2015'''
[https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/ FridaysForFuture]


[[File:Earth120.png|60px|left]]
Global Climate Strike For Future Event, Mar 15, 2019, on [https://www.facebook.com/events/1994180377345229/ facebook]
'''September 21''' - Zero Emissions Day <br>
[http://zeroemissionsday.org/ zeroemissionsday.org] <br clear=left>


[[File:SingaporeEarthHour.jpg|120px|left]]
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'''March 28, 2015''' - Earth Hour! 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time.<br>
Eteignez vos lumières! La Hora del Planeta! Famously started as a lights-off event in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]] in 2007. Since then it has grown to engage more than 7000 cities and towns worldwide / Earth Hour 2014 Video 60 sec on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFIL0l-e1j4 youtube], [http://www.earthhour.org/ earthhour.org], [https://www.facebook.com/earthhour facebook]


[[File:Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Protest at Tufts University.jpg|120px|left]]
=== School strike for climate ===
'''February 13 and 14, 2015''' - Global Divestment Day, "Let’s make fossil fuels history." <br>
The actions during the Global Divestment Day will be wide-ranging and diverse. Individuals are gearing up to close their accounts with banks and pension funds investing in fossil fuel companies. University students are planning to hold flash-mobs, vigils, sit-ins and rallies calling upon their endowments to invest in a liveable future. Faith leaders and people living on the frontline of climate change are banding together to urge their communities to divest from climate destruction. Together, all these people around the world will make one message loud and clear: it’s time to make fossil fuels history. / [http://gofossilfree.org/divestment-day/ Fossil Free]


== Resources ==
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.


=== Apps for sustainability ===
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|School strike for climate}}


[https://www.iseechange.org/ "I See Change"], help NASA track climate change from your phone
[https://schoolsforclimateaction.weebly.com/ Schools for Climate Action]


=== Citizens data initiative ===
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[http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center], organization within the United States Department of Energy that has the primary responsibility for providing the US government and research community with global warming data and analysis as it pertains to energy issues. The CDIAC, and its subsidiary the World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases, focus on obtaining, evaluating and distributing data related to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. {{W|Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center}}
=== Citizens' Climate Lobby ===


[http://carbonn.org/ carbonn Climate Registry], database of local government climate action
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.


[https://data.cdp.net/ CDP Open Data Portal], The CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) is an organisation based in the [[United Kingdom]] which supports companies and cities to disclose the environmental impact of major corporations. It aims to make environmental reporting and risk management a business norm, and drive disclosure, insight and action towards a sustainable economy. Since 2002 over 6,000 companies have publicly disclosed environmental information through CDP. {{W|Carbon Disclosure Project}}
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]].


Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions|List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions]], [[wikipedia:List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita|List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita]]
{{W|Citizens' Climate Lobby}}


=== Images ===
=== Other campaigns ===


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* [https://openclimatecampaign.org/ 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)''


[http://www.climatevisuals.org/ Climate Visuals], includes some Creative Commons images
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| video = a5VXJBVpqM8
| title = The People's Fight: How We Halt the Climate Crisis
| authors = 350.org, Jan 27, 2021
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=== Infographics ===
* [https://350.org/ 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|350.org}}
* [https://gofossilfree.org/paris/ Fossil Free, Divest for Paris]
* [https://tcktcktck.org/ TckTckTck], the Global Call for Climate Action
* [https://www.climatecounts.org/ 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|Climate Counts}}


How many gigatons of CO2? [http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/how-many-gigatons-of-co2/ Information is Beautiful]
== What individuals can do ==


=== Quotes ===
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“climate change is the moral struggle that will define this century.” Desmond Tutu <ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/desmond-tutu-describes-bitumen-production-as-greed-in-keynote-speech/article18939123/ The Globe and Mail]</ref>
* [https://takethejump.org/ The Jump], ''added 14:14, 7 March 2022 (UTC)''
* Individual action on climate change {{W|Individual action on climate change}}
* [https://www.52climateactions.com| 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 [https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/actions/download-your-climate-action-toolkit/?fbclid=IwAR3LDAzP1fkG-hyLtNNgYn_BEKumVMmI0_C7W5muZiYIdknyrK8H6u1gaO0 Climate Action Toolkit]


"If we are together, nothing is impossible" Winston Churchill
=== Controversy over promoting individual action on climate change ===


=== Maps ===
''See'': Citizen participation in climate change policy advocacy {{W|Individual_action_on_climate_change#Citizen_participation_in_climate_change_policy_advocacy}} and<br>
'''Nov 9, 2019''' Climate change deniers’ new battle front attacked<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/09/doomism-new-tactic-fossil-fuel-lobby The Guardian]</ref>


Mapped: Climate adaptation around the world, Nov 8, 2016 [https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-climate-adaptation-around-the-world carbonbrief.org]
“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<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2019/nov/09/climategate-10-years-on-what-lessons-have-we-learned The Guardian] Nov 9, 2019</ref>


[http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2015/atlas-for-a-changing-planet/ Mapping Climate Change]
== Near you ==


=== Other resources ===
[[Climate action UK]] - [[Climate action USA]] - [[Climate action India]] - [[Climate action Turkey]]
*[https://climatepsychologyalliance.org/ Climate Psychology Alliance], "facing difficult truths about climate change and ecological crisis"
* Australian Psychological Society who made the free to download [https://www.psychology.org.au/getmedia/88ee1716-2604-44ce-b87a-ca0408dfaa12/Climate-change-empowerment-handbook.pdf Climate Change Empowerment Handbook]
*[http://guide.cred.columbia.edu/pdfs/CREDguide_full-res.pdf The Psychology of Climate Change Communication], CRED Guide
* [https://www.enablingchange.com.au/Communication_for_change.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1oduFRPFhqoeHEsPoLLGWoKZAelc5M9WKwv8xPo8h7U80-HSb0cKlkCRU Changeology Practice Guide: Communication for Change]


=== Research ===
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==== Project Drawdown ====
{{Localtopic}}


*[https://www.drawdown.org/ Drawdown], 100 solutions to reverse global warming
== See also ==


Project Drawdown is a climate change mitigation project initiated by Paul Hawken and climate activist Amanda Joy Ravenhill. Central to the project is the compilation of a list of the “100 most substantive solutions to global warming.” The list, encompassing only technologically viable, existing solutions, was compiled by a team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders and activists; for each solution the carbon impact through the year 2050, the total and net cost to society, and the total lifetime savings were measured and modelled.
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Paul Hawken has edited the book Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming to support the Project. {{W|Drawdown (climate)}}
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==== Other research ====
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Collective climate action and networked climate governance, [http://www.citeulike.org/group/15407/article/14213388 citeulike.org]
== External links ==


=== Songs ===
* Wikipedia: Climate emergency declaration {{W|Climate emergency declaration}}, Climate crisis {{W|Climate crisis}}, [[Wikipedia:Abrupt climate change|Abrupt climate change]], [[Wikipedia:Adaptation to global warming|Adaptation to global warming]], [[Wikipedia:Climate change and poverty|Climate change and poverty]], [[Wikipedia:Climate change mitigation|Climate change mitigation]], [[Wikipedia:Climate justice|Climate justice]], [[Wikipedia:Effects of global warming|Effects of global warming]], [[Wikipedia:Glossary of climate change|Glossary of climate change]], [[Wikipedia:Index of climate change articles|Index of climate change articles]], [[Wikipedia:Individual and political action on climate change|Individual and political action on climate change]], [[Wikipedia:R20 Regions of Climate Action|R20 Regions of Climate Action]], [[Wikipedia:Tipping point (climatology)|Tipping point (climatology)]], [[Wikipedia:Category:Climate change and society|Climate change and society]] (category), [[Wikipedia:Alternatiba, Village of Alternatives|Alternatiba, Village of Alternatives]]
 
* [https://www.c40.org/ C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group], network of the world's megacities taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. C40 harnesses the assets of member cities to address climate risks and impacts locally and globally. {{W|C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group}}
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* [https://shareaction.org/ ShareAction], registered charity that promotes responsible investment by pension schemes and fund managers, based in [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]
 
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=== Visions ===
 
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'''Dec 5, 2018''' [[Climate action USA]]: With a Green New Deal, here's what the world could look like for the next generation <ref>[https://theintercept.com/2018/12/05/green-new-deal-proposal-impacts/ theintercept.com]</ref><br clear=all>
 
== See also ==
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*[[Climate change solutions]]
*[[Air travel, climate change, and green consumerism]]
*[[Arts, sport and culture]]
*[[Biochar]]
*[[Citizens' assembly]]
*[[Climate change]]
*[[Climate change and risk of insecurity]]
*[[Climate news]]
*[[Community climate action plan]]
*[[Community energy]]
*[[Dangerous climate change]]
*[[Environment quality]]
*[[Extinction Rebellion]], [[XR and future democracy]]
*[[Greenhouse gas emissions]]
*[[Localism]]
*[[Sustainable transport activism]]
*[[Legal resources]]
*[[User:RichardF/Index of climate change articles]]
 
== Interwiki links ==
Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:Abrupt climate change|Abrupt climate change]], [[wikipedia:Adaptation to global warming|Adaptation to global warming]], [[wikipedia:Climate change and poverty|Climate change and poverty]], [[wikipedia:Climate change mitigation|Climate change mitigation]], [[wikipedia:Climate justice|Climate justice]], [[wikipedia:Effects of global warming|Effects of global warming]], [[wikipedia:Glossary of climate change|Glossary of climate change]], [[wikipedia:Index of climate change articles|Index of climate change articles]], [[wikipedia:Individual and political action on climate change|Individual and political action on climate change]], [[wikipedia:R20 Regions of Climate Action|R20 Regions of Climate Action]], [[wikipedia:Tipping point (climatology)|Tipping point (climatology)]], [[wikipedia:Category:Climate change and society|Climate change and society]] (category), [[wikipedia:Alternatiba, Village of Alternatives|Alternatiba, Village of Alternatives]]
 
== External links ==
*[http://www.c40.org/ C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group], network of the world's megacities taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. C40 harnesses the assets of member cities to address climate risks and impacts locally and globally. {{W|C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group}}
*[http://www.climatecounts.org/ 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|Climate Counts}}
*[http://shareaction.org/ ShareAction], registered charity that promotes responsible investment by pension schemes and fund managers, based in [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]


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Latest revision as of 09:19, 24 March 2024

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  • News Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, aljazeera.com/ (Mar 18, 2024)
  • News Teen activist Anjali Sharma wages war on government climate inaction from dorm room, abc.net.au (Mar 11, 2024)
  • News How a Nigerian ecofeminist grew a climate movement, chinadialogue.net (Mar 08, 2024) — After witnessing the violent impacts of warming, Oladosu Adenike started a national movement empowering young people to take action

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This page is the beginnings of a portal for community action in response to Climate emergency. 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]

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]

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

Maps

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 an approach to climate action that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. Climate justice wants to achieve an equitable distribution of both the burdens of climate change and the efforts to mitigate climate change. Climate justice is a type of environmental justice.

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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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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  • 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]

Climate action UK - Climate action USA - Climate action India - Climate action Turkey

local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages

See also[edit | edit source]

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External links[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  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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