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== What communities can do ==
*become low carbon communities, or develop a [[Community climate action plan]]
*promote [[carbon literacy]]
*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.
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There may be national plans, local, community, neighbourhood or regional plans or design statements or climate action plans.
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* [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]
{{Read more|Climate news}}


== Events ==
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>


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== Topic, resource and news articles ==
'''Feb 2''' [[World Wetlands Day]], ''2020: Sun'' <br clear=all>


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* [[Climate news]]
'''Mar 28''' [[Earth Hour!]] ''2020, Sat, 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time'' <br clear=all>
* [[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]]


== What individuals can do==
== Networks ==


* Individual action on climate change {{W|Individual action on climate change}}
* [https://cop26coalition.org/ Cop26 coalition], Climate Justice Movement at COP26, ''added 10:58, 7 October 2021 (UTC)''
*[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.
* 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]
* Climate Council's [https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/actions/download-your-climate-action-toolkit/?fbclid=IwAR3LDAzP1fkG-hyLtNNgYn_BEKumVMmI0_C7W5muZiYIdknyrK8H6u1gaO0 Climate Action Toolkit]


=== Controversy over promoting individual action on climate change ===
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“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>
* [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>


== Campaigns ==
== Events ==
 
{{Eventlist|location=world|keyword=climate|year=2024}}


=== Extinction Rebellion ===
== Visions ==


'''''See separate article:''''' [[Extinction Rebellion]]
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>


=== Parents For Future ===
[[File:TAG Climate Protest Future.jpg|120px|thumb]]


[https://www.parentsforfuture.org.uk/supporters Supporters - Parents For Future UK]
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>


=== FridaysForFuture ===
== Community action projects ==


[https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/ FridaysForFuture]
* 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]]


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


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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]]


=== School strike for climate ===
* 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]]


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.
== Climate emergency ==


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}}
''Main article''... [[Climate emergency]]


[https://schoolsforclimateaction.weebly.com/ Schools for Climate Action]
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.


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== Sea level rise ==


=== Citizens' Climate Lobby ===
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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.
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}}


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]].
'''Maps'''


{{W|Citizens' Climate Lobby}}
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]


=== Other links ===
Sea Level Rise, information from [https://www.climatecentral.org/what-we-do/our-programs/sea-level-rise climatecentral.org]


[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}}
== Climate change fairness, justice and peace ==


[http://gofossilfree.org/paris/ Fossil Free, Divest for Paris]
"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>


[http://tcktcktck.org/ TckTckTck], the Global Call for Climate Action
== Climate justice action ==


== Why it matters ==
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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>
{{Wikipedia excerpt|Climate justice|paragraphs=1}}


=== Climate emergency ===
''see also'': [[Climate justice]]


''See separate article''... [[Climate emergency]]
== Climate change and inequality ==


=== Climate change fairness, justice and peace ===
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"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>
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=== Climate justice ===
“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>
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 ===
== Why climate change is a women’s issue ==


“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>
"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]]


=== Why climate change is a women’s issue ===
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"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://www.wen.org.uk/general_pages/Newsitems/pr_climatechange_12.9.06.htm WEN press release] September 12 2006 ''(link not found May 2015)''</ref>


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[https://www.1millionwomen.com.au/ 1 Million Women]


[http://www.1millionwomen.com.au/ 1 Million Women]
== Youth groups and climate action ==


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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|Youth Climate Movement}}


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


''See separate article'': [[Climate news]]
== Campaigns ==


== Resources ==
=== Extinction Rebellion ===


=== Apps for sustainability ===
''Main article:'' [[Extinction Rebellion]]


[https://www.iseechange.org/ "I See Change"], help NASA track climate change from your phone
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.


=== Citizens data initiative ===
=== Parents For Future ===


*Global Carbon Budget 2019, [https://www.icos-cp.eu/GCP/2019 icos-cp.eu]  
[https://www.parentsforfuture.org.uk/supporters Supporters - Parents For Future UK]


[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}}
=== FridaysForFuture ===


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


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


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]]
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=== Images ===
=== School strike for climate ===


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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.


[http://www.climatevisuals.org/ Climate Visuals], includes some Creative Commons images
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}}


=== Infographics ===
[https://schoolsforclimateaction.weebly.com/ Schools for Climate Action]


How many gigatons of CO2? [http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/how-many-gigatons-of-co2/ Information is Beautiful]
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=== Quotes ===
=== Citizens' Climate Lobby ===


“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>
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.


"If we are together, nothing is impossible" Winston Churchill
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]].


=== Maps ===
{{W|Citizens' Climate Lobby}}


Land projected to be below annual flood level in 2050, [https://coastal.climatecentral.org coastal.climatecentral.org]
=== Other campaigns ===


Mapped: Climate adaptation around the world, Nov 8, 2016 [https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-climate-adaptation-around-the-world carbonbrief.org]
* [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://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2015/atlas-for-a-changing-planet/ Mapping Climate Change]
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=== Other resources ===
* [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://climatepsychologyalliance.org/ Climate Psychology Alliance], "facing difficult truths about climate change and ecological crisis"
* [https://gofossilfree.org/paris/ Fossil Free, Divest for Paris]
* 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]
* [https://tcktcktck.org/ TckTckTck], the Global Call for Climate Action
*[http://guide.cred.columbia.edu/pdfs/CREDguide_full-res.pdf The Psychology of Climate Change Communication], CRED Guide
* [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}}
* [https://www.enablingchange.com.au/Communication_for_change.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1oduFRPFhqoeHEsPoLLGWoKZAelc5M9WKwv8xPo8h7U80-HSb0cKlkCRU Changeology Practice Guide: Communication for Change]


=== Research ===
== What individuals can do ==


Collective climate action and networked climate governance, [http://www.citeulike.org/group/15407/article/14213388 citeulike.org]
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=== Songs ===
* [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]


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=== Controversy over promoting individual action on climate change ===


Lyrics for the Song for the Climate [https://sheffieldsingsoutfortheclimate.wordpress.com/portfolio/lyrics-for-the-song-for-the-climate/ sheffieldsingsoutfortheclimate.wordpress.com]
''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>


=== Video ===
“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>


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== Near you ==


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[[Climate action UK]] - [[Climate action USA]] - [[Climate action India]] - [[Climate action Turkey]]


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=== Visions ===
== See also ==


[[File:TAG Climate Protest Future.jpg|100px|left]]
* [[Air travel, climate change, and green consumerism]]
'''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>
* [[Arts, sport and culture]]
* [[Biochar]]
* [[Citizens' assembly]]
* [[Climate change]]
* [[Climate change and risk of insecurity]]
* [[Community energy]]
* [[Dangerous climate change]]
* [[Education for sustainability]]
* [[Environment quality]]
* [[XR and future democracy]]
* [[Greenhouse gas emissions]]
* [[Localism]]
* [[Sustainable transport activism]]
* [[Legal resources]]


== See also ==
{{CASwiki menu}}
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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 emergency]]
*[[Climate news]]
*[[Community climate action plan]]
*[[Community energy]]
*[[Dangerous climate change]]
*[[Education for sustainability]]
*[[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 ==
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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]]


== External links ==
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*[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]]


* 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}}
* [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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Latest revision as of 20:50, 21 April 2024

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.

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  • News ‘We need more shade’: US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need, theguardian.com (Apr 17, 2024)
  • News Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2024)
  • News ‘Net-negative’ emissions update, carbonbrief.org (Mar 27, 2024) — includes listing of countries already at net-negative emissions and countries aiming for net-negative emissions

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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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From Wikipedia:Climate justice

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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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]

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

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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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