People Centered Climate Action

 
 

Resourcing and learning from communities is the best way to greatly accelerate climate action and to protect the most vulnerable, reduce inequality, and enhance quality of life. ACE provides the foundational toolkit for centering people and justice in climate action.

People-centered climate action does six things:

  1. Advances collective well-being: Puts people, and all life we are interconnected with, first –above profits & greed

  2. Purposefully delivers social and economic benefits for everyone arising from climate action through inclusive processes

  3. Lifts up community-led & community-driven climate action to address the needs and reduce risk of disadvantaged groups

  4. Enhances social equity and mobility

  5. Ensures an ambitious and socially just transition through a whole-of-society approach

  6. Enhances environmental quality for all

Nations need to enact policies and programs that support leadership within communities, enabling the co-designing of a climate-smart future that leaves no one behind.

In order to identify the gaps that need to be addressed and prioritized, and to strengthen this vision across the world, we need increased knowledge sharing and a comprehensive way to track progress on People-Centered Climate Action.