Suscom - Environmental Justice

Community Environment Associates

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Climate Change & Communities

Sustainable Communities

Environmental Justice

Sustainable Tower Blocks Initiative

Why the White Horse



	Climate Change and Communities CEA work extensively on climate change issues in 2008. This work has included two reports and a lot of training.Chris Church is now working on a project looking at ways to develop local activity through networked support. Reports Thirty-three ways forward? Climate change in London: Action by local government A survey of local councils by the London 21 network January 2008 This report looks at what local councils in London are doing (or not doing) on these issues and makes a set of recommendations on what councils and voluntary sector bodies should be doing to build engagement and activity in London. These recommendations can be accessed in a shorter document here. Action on Climate Change: From a Divided Europe to a Common Purpose Chris wrote this with Tamara Malkova, Director of the excellent Ukraine NGO Green Dossier . It looks at the role of NGOs in tackling climate change across Europe with a special focus on the eastern regions out to Tadjikistan (which is already suffering serious climate-related problems due to glacier retreat and water shortages). The report highlights the need for a well-supported programme to build "climate literacy" in both East and West and the role that NGOs can play in this work. You can download the report here. Training The training is being delivered with Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN) and Talk Action . It focuses on climate change communication and speaking in public on climate change. We deliver these courses in various places around the country but can also work with any local organisation to run one which meets your specific needs. See the Training page for more details of what is on offer or check the websites for these organisations. Climate and communities Chris is looking closely at the engagement of Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations with climate change.What do we mean by VCS organisations? These are primarily local community organisations who are not focused on a specific issue, but tend to work more on a local area basis (though this is not always the case). VCS groups include tenant and resident groups, faith organisations, councils for voluntary service (CVSs), as well as sports clubs, women's organisations, anti-poverty groups and many more. There are up to 750,000 such groups across the UK. Chris has been developing a framework for assessing such activity - this is currently under discussion so if you're interested, please email us and we will send you the most recent version The original work on this is summarised in a 2006 report, downloadable here, entitled "Local Action, Global Impact" .