The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism in response to Climate emergency. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages ...Near you. Climate action resources, Climate change solutions and Climate change solutions news are separate articles.
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]
Despite 2024’s ‘greenlash’, the fight against climate breakdown can still be won. Here’s how. Björn Bremer, Jane Gingrich and Hanna Schwander, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2024) - Vancouver City Council votes to reinstate gas ban for new developments, theenergymix.com (Nov 28, 2024)
- COP29: Climate change could kill millions — and world leaders must work to limit fatalities, Joshua M. Pearce, theconversation.com (Nov 26, 2024)
Events[edit | edit source]
Dec 11, 2024 (Wed) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org- Mar 01, 2025 (Sat) — World Seagrass Day, Mar 1, annually. Raising awareness about seagrass and its important functions in the marine ecosystem.
- Mar 20, 2025 (Thu) — World Rewilding Day, March 20, annually, rewildingeurope.com
- Apr 22, 2025 (Tue) — Earth Day, April 22, annually, earthday.org
- May 20, 2025 (Tue) — World Bee Day, May 20 each year, fao.org
- Jun 17, 2025 (Tue) — World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, each June 17, un.org
- Aug 09, 2025 (Sat) — International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population, un.org
- Aug 12, 2025 (Tue) — International Youth Day, awareness day designated by the United Nations taking place on Aug 12 each year, un.org
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
- 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]
Visions[edit | edit source]
- In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how, Eric Holthaus, Jan 8, 2020[3]
- 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]
- Climate emergency centres ...see: 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 carbon literacy
- 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
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
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]
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]
Climate justice is a type of environmental justice that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. Climate justice seeks to achieve an equitable distribution of both the burdens of climate change and the efforts to mitigate climate change. The economic burden of climate change mitigation is estimated by some at around 1% to 2% of GDP. Climate justice examines concepts such as equality, human rights, collective rights, justice and the historical responsibilities for climate change.
see also: Climate justice
Climate change and inequality[edit | edit source]
“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
Youth groups and climate action[edit | edit source]
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
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
Supporters - Parents For Future UK
FridaysForFuture
Global Climate Strike For Future Event, Mar 15, 2019, on facebook
School strike for climate
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
Citizens' Climate Lobby
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. W
Other campaigns
- 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)
- 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]
- 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 and news can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
See also: Extinction Rebellion, Air travel, climate change, and green consumerism, Biochar, Climate change, Climate change and risk of insecurity, Dangerous climate change, Greenhouse gas emissions, Localism, Legal resources
External links
- Wikipedia: Climate emergency declaration W, Climate crisis W, Abrupt climate change, Adaptation to global warming, Climate change and poverty, Climate change mitigation, Climate justice, Effects of global warming, Glossary of climate change, Index of climate change articles, Individual and political action on climate change, R20 Regions of Climate Action, Tipping point (climatology), Climate change and society (category), Alternatiba, Village of Alternatives
- 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
- ShareAction, registered charity that promotes responsible investment by pension schemes and fund managers, based in London, United Kingdom
References
- ↑ Climate change is happening now - world needs to respond urgently, Defra, April 6 2007 (link not found May 2015)
- ↑ rapidtransition.org
- ↑ thecorrespondent.com
- ↑ theintercept.com
- ↑ The Nobel Peace Prize 2007, October 12 2007
- ↑ Repeating Islands, July 9, 2009
- ↑ WEN press release September 12 2006 (link not found May 2015)
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ The Guardian Nov 9, 2019
