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Merging Relief and Development Indicators

Considering the significant overlap between humanitarian, recovery and development programming, IndiKit has merged 'relief indicators' and 'development indicators' into a single category.

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SIDA Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

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European Youth Forum

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What is Climate Justice? And what can we do achieve it?

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Recap and reflections from UNICEF’s Climate Justice Roundtable

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ERYICA European Youth Information and Counselling Agency

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Green Policy on sustainability and international volunteering

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Green Policy on sustainability and international volunteering

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What we do as an organisation

Our work aims to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which address the economic, social and environmental challenges of our planet. We strive to implement sustainability in our daily work:

Organisational work

IBG is part of the self-declaration of Bergwaldprojekt on climate-friendly behavior! What does that mean? We want to do something about climate change and commit ourselves to the following three points in our daily work:

1. We renounce domestic flights and flights for travel up to 1,000 km.

2. We minimize our energy consumption in the office and use power from 100% green electricity.

3. We renounce meat from conventional, industrial production and use, as far as possible, only biological, seasonal and regional or fair food in our trainings and events.

Trainings & Travel reimbursements

Meals at our trainings and seminars are usually vegan. Why? Here you can find 8 reasons why we aim to eat less meat.

We do not reimburse travel costs for domestic flights and travel costs for cars only up to an amount of 150 Euros. For train bookings, we can reimburse you also for the costs of a CO2 offset.

Many volunteers travel medium or long distances to reach their workcamp. We recommend that all participants think about offsetting the CO2 emissions of their trip and choose the most environmentally friendly means of transport. Here you can calculate the CO2 emissions of your trip to the workcamp with different means of transport.

Traveling more sustainably doesn't just mean choosing environmentally friendly means of transport. It also means paying attention to social justice, respecting foreign cultures and keeping the negative impact of your trip on the environment as small as possible. Here are a few tips to make your trip as sustainable as possible.

In an international group in particular, it is often exciting to discuss the topic of sustainability and to get to know different approaches to solving the climate crisis from various regions of the world. We motivate all group leaders of our work camps to choose a motto for their camp. This means, for example, trying to do without plastic, reducing waste, buying fair coffee, etc. Read more about how to choose your camp's motto.

How you can get involved

You think the topic is important and want to get involved further? We are looking forward to your participation! You can support us in various ways:

Become an Eco-Messenger!
As an Eco-Messenger, you visit a work camp and give a small input on a topic of sustainability; for example, water, consumption, mobility, upcycling, etc. We will refund your travel costs and help you with the planning and implementation of your workshop!

More Info

Want to read more about sustainability? Here you will find some articles about how we practise sustainability in our workcamps, while travelling and with our daily office work.

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IBG supports the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to master the economic, social and ecological challenges facing our planet. We implement sustainability in international workcamps, when traveling and in the daily work of the organization in the office.

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AEGEE Europe Associaten des états généraux des étudiants de l'europe

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that we have a moral and social responsibility to make Europe and the world a better place for current and future generations. We ACKNOWLEDGE

We UNDERSTAND that Sustainable Development aims to meet the needs of present generations without jeopardising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

We face challenges in all three pillars of Sustainable Development:

Environmental - the ongoing pollution of our home, habitat destruction for millions of species, and the refusal to acknowledge planetary boundaries, leading to both a loss of biodiversity and to the climate emergency

Social - barriers to inclusion, growing inequalities, the normalisation of hate speech, weakened democratic institutions, lack of solidarity and of civic education

Economic - a model that creates great disparities in society and stimulates overconsumption by focusing on short-term economic growth at the expense of society and the environment

The United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development was signed by all 193 member states. This agenda includes the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): a universal call to action to protect the planet, end poverty and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The SDGs are all interconnected and rely on one another to achieve an equilibrium of environmental, social and economic sustainability. We need a multilateral approach from all stakeholders on all fronts to achieve that balance.

We COMMIT to incorporating the three pillars of sustainability into everything we do.

We empower the youth of Europe to work towards sustainable development and achieving the SDGs through non-formal education, awareness-raising and our collective actions. We will measure our contributions to the SDGs and publish them to inspire others to get active in the fields of sustainable development and movements for climate and environmental justice.

We need more than just individual actions.

to demanding from every politician and decision-maker the systemic change that is necessary in order to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis, move towards a fair and equal society and a suitable economic model for the challenges of our generation and the ones to come. We COMMIT
We CALL upon every politician and decision-maker to acknowledge their moral and social responsibility to make the world a better place for current and future generations. We urge them to do this by leading the necessary systemic change to the current paradigm:

First and foremost, we call upon decision-makers in Europe and around the world to immediately undertake a multilateral approach to the global environmental crisis, to declare a state of climate emergency and to communicate the urgency for change. We call on them to acknowledge the intrinsic value of nature and to mobilise all of humanity's resources to maintain Earth as a habitat, both for humanity and for the other species we share it with.

Secondly, we call upon decision-makers in Europe and around the world to tackle the growing inequalities in society. We demand universal healthcare and education, fair payment and social benefits for all. We must end exploitation and protect the dignity of the individual. We call for transparent and democratic societies that can provide their citizens with a fulfilling and healthy life in a safe environment.

Thirdly, we call upon decision-makers in Europe and around the world to rethink our economic models and find alternatives in which economic prosperity and environmental protection go hand in hand, and success isn't just measured by GDP growth. Consumerism and endless growth at the expense of the environment and the people should no longer be the norm. We urge them to transition to a model that doesn't intensify inequalities but instead fosters prosperity for all.

We must involve everyone in the process: individuals, civil society, governments and businesses. It's only by educating all stakeholders about these issues, increasing participation and creating citizens' assemblies, that we can mobilise the ethical leadership we need to bring about the systemic change that Europe and the world are calling for.
The people of AEGEE at the Autumn Agora Salerno on 26th October 2019

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Sustainability ManifestoWe, the people of AEGEE, meeting at the Autumn Agora Salerno 2019, hereby declare:We ACKNOWLEDGE that we have a moral and social responsibility to make Europe and the world a better place for current and future generations.We UNDERSTAND that Sustainable Development aims

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Qué es la política ambiental y sus principios

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Qué es la política ambiental y sus principios

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"¿Qué es la política ambiental? Pues explicado de forma sencilla, la política ambiental es la preocupación por ayudar a mejorar y cuidar el medio ambiente, conservar los principios naturales de los humanos y fomentar el desarrollo sostenible, a través de marcarse objetivos claros a corto y largo plazo relacionados con todo esto en conjunto."

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Por Nerea Zarza, Abogada ambientalista.

La política ambiental es la preocupación y desarrollo de objetivos con fines para mejorar el medio ambiente, conservar los principios naturales de la vida humana y fomentar un desarrollo sostenible.Tanto en el ámbito público como privado, la conciencia ambiental es creciente. En las empresas, los certificados ISO 14001 o EMAS certifican que utilizan sistemas de gestión medioambiental. En este artículo de EcologíaVerde, explicamos todo sobre la qué es la política ambiental y ejemplos, además de incidir en cuáles son los principios de la política ambiental.

Qué es la política ambiental y sus principios

¿Qué es la política ambiental? Pues explicado de forma sencilla, la política ambiental es la preocupación por ayudar a mejorar y cuidar el medio ambiente, conservar los principios naturales de los humanos y fomentar el desarrollo sostenible, a través de marcarse objetivos claros a corto y largo plazo relacionados con todo esto en conjunto.

Además, se pueden definir las políticas ambientales como las estrategias que se realizan desde las diferentes instituciones, tanto nacionales como internacionales, que a través de la elaboración y aplicación de diferentes normativas ambientales, buscan hacer frente a los problemas ambientales existentes.

A nivel mundial, nos encontramos con que la ONU cuenta con un organismo especializado, cuya misión principal es la de fomentar la cooperación internacional en los asuntos relacionados con el medio ambiente, así como evaluar las condiciones ambientales a nivel mundial, regional y nacional, elaborando para ello estrategias nacionales e internacionales, este organismo es el PNUMA (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente), cuya importancia es indiscutible, el cual contribuye a la aplicación del derecho ambiental elaborando normativas y fortaleciendo las instituciones para la gestión racional del medio ambiente, actuando a su vez, como organismo coordinador en materia de medio ambiente dentro de las Naciones Unidas.

En cuanto a la UE, las políticas ambientales a nivel europeo se centran en:

Fomentar una economía innovadora y circular en la que se proteja, se valore y se restablezca la biodiversidad y se reduzcan al mínimo los riesgos para la salud derivados de problemas de medio ambiente, potenciando la resiliencia de la sociedad desvinculando el crecimiento del uso de los recursos.

En cuanto a los principales principios que rigen dichas políticas, se encuentran recogidos en el Tratado de Funcionamiento de la Unión Europea (TFUE), concretamente en su artículo.191 y son los de cautela, prevención, y el principio de "quien contamina paga".

A modo de resumen, los principios de las políticas ambientales para un desarrollo sostenible para lograr un crecimiento económico limpio y ecológico son:

El principio de responsabilidad medioambiental: todos podemos mejorar nuestro entorno.

El principio de prevención: mejor prevenir que corregir desastres ecológicos.

El principio de sustitución de sustancias peligrosas por otras menos contaminantes y procesos de alto consumo energético por otros más eficientes.

El que contamina paga en los casos que no se puede prevenir el daño ambiental.

El principio de la coherencia que requiere la coordinación de las políticas ambientales con otros departamentos y la integración de objetivos ambientales.

Principio de la cooperación en grupos sociales que trabajen con objetivos de mejora ambiental y su realización es indispensable.

Las políticas ambientales deben basarse siempre en los resultados de investigaciones científicas.

Qué son los principios generales de la política ambiental y su significado

Cuando se habla de principios generales, estamos ante las "ideas" principales que van a servir de base para la elaboración de las diferentes normativas ambientales. En definitiva, son la base estructural sobre la que se van a sostener las diferentes estrategias relacionadas con la protección ambiental. Estos son los dos principales en las políticas ambientales:

Principios de cautela y prevención

Se centran en la finalidad principal de gestionar el riesgo, ello significa que, en los casos en que exista una sospecha de efectos negativos para la salud humana o el medio ambiente derivados de unas políticas o acciones determinadas, en estos casos y tras una previa evaluación científica objetiva, si no se puede asegurar que no se van a producir dichos efectos,negativos siempre se optará por no seguir con dichas políticas o acciones. Un ejemplo de la aplicación de este principio, lo tenemos en los casos en que surja una duda sobre los posibles efectos nocivos de un determinado producto, si tras la correspondiente evaluación científica, esas dudas persisten, siempre se deberá optar por la retirada de dicho producto del mercado.

"Quien contamina paga"

Es sin duda el "principio por excelencia" del las políticas del derecho ambiental, su principal aplicación se realiza a través de la Directiva sobre responsabilidad medioambiental, con el objetivo de prevenir los daños al medio ambiente o remediar los que ya se han producido. Básicamente se traduce en el principio por el cual, las actividades profesionales que amenazan el medio ambiente, tienen aparejado un gravamen adicional derivado de dicho riesgo, pagando tanto por las acciones preventivas como reparadoras del daño.

Cómo debe ser la política ambiental - resumen

La política ambiental es un modelo de administración adoptado por una entidad o empresa para relacionarse con el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales. Esta debe empezar por un compromiso ambiental, un documento que deberá regir toda actividad en la empresa y que debe reflejar los puntos básicos de la política medioambiental.

Algunos de los puntos que deben incluirse en este compromiso ambiental que guiará la política de la empresa son:

Siempre se actuará según las leyes y normas de la gestión ambiental.

Se minimizará en lo posible todo impacto ambiental.

Se minimizará en lo posible los residuos generados.

Se abogará por la reutilización y reciclaje.

Se prevendrán los riesgos a nivel patrimonial, ocupacional y ambiental.

Periódicamente se realizarán auditorias ambientales para asegurarse que se cumplen los puntos establecidos.

Política ambiental: ISO 14001 ejemplo

La ISO 14001 2015 es la norma en la que se estipulan los contenidos que deben estar presentes en la política de calidad de una empresa en materia medioambiental. Marca los puntos que la dirección debe implantar, mantener y hacer cumplir en torno a la política medioambiental en su empresa. Entre las cosas que impone la norma es que:

Se deben establecer el contexto de las operaciones de la empresa y los impactos ambientales que se pueden derivar de su actividad.

Se debe poner el marco de referencia para que se establezcan los objetivos a nivel ambiental.

Debe incluir un compromiso para la protección medioambiental, que necesariamente debe prevenir la contaminación, utilizar los recursos de forma sostenible, mitigar el cambio climático y proteger los ecosistemas así como la biodiversidad.

Se deben incluir los compromisos legales.

Se deben incluir un compromiso sobre la mejora del Sistema de Gestión Ambiental.

Además, las políticas ambientales deben:

Mantenerse documentadas.

Ser comunicadas a todos los miembros de la empresa.

Estar disponibles para cualquier parte interesada.

Política ambiental: ejemplos

La política ambiental es algo que debe estar presente en todas las empresas, desde las más pequeñas hasta las más grandes multinacionales. Hay una gran cantidad de aspectos que podemos tener en cuenta a la hora de seguir unas medidas ambientales adecuadas, a continuación te explicamos algunos ejemplos de política ambiental:

Cambiar la flota de vehículos por vehículos eléctricos, como bicicletas eléctricas o coches eléctricos.

Reciclar el papel que se usa y usar siempre papel reciclado.

Evitar imprimir todos esos documentos que no sean estrictamente necesarios.

Formar, comunicar y educar a los trabajadores en la práctica ecológica.

Fomentar actividades ecológicas bajo el amparo de la empresa, por ejemplo, realizar salidas par alimpiar el bosque o plantar árboles.

Reducir el impacto ambiental de la empresa: aires condicionados, calefacción, luz y agua.

Política ambiental: las cumbres del cambio climático de las Naciones Unidas

La principal expresión de las políticas ambientales, surge de las cumbres sobre el cambio climático, en las cuales los Estados miembros de la ONU, se reúnen para gestionar y crear los acuerdos sobre los que se van a regir las normativas reguladoras en materia ambiental. De estas cumbres han surgido los principales tratados y convenios internacionales sobre los que descansan las actuales políticas ambientales, un ejemplo de estos son, el Protocolo de Kioto, acordado en 1997, cuyo objetivo principal es el de reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, el acuerdo de París, adoptado en la cumbre del clima de París en 2015 con el objetivo de luchar contra el cambio climático, el cual comenzará a aplicarse en 2020, así como la agenda 2030, incluyendo los 17 Objetivos del Desarrollo sostenible, sucesores de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio, aprobados durante la celebración de la Cumbre del Milenio el año 2000 en la sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York.

En el año 2019 se ha celebrado la Cumbre del Clima en Madrid, con el objetivo de impulsar la acción mundial contra la emergencia climática e implantar el Acuerdo de París en 2020, así como lograr que los diferentes países se comprometieran a una mayor reducción de CO2 a lo largo de 2020. Aún es pronto para saber qué objetivos se han alcanzado y en qué van a consistir, ya que ha sido una cumbre no exenta de polémica, llegando a alargarse incluyendo todo el fin de semana debido a la imposibilidad de los diferentes países de alcanzar acuerdos.

Agenda 2030, un claro ejemplo de política ambiental

Uno de los mayores ejemplos de política ambiental a nivel mundial, lo encontramos dentro de la Agenda 2030, en la que se incluyen los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible, constituyendo un plan de acción acordado por los países miembros de la ONU para, entre otras metas, proteger el medio ambiente y combatir el cambio climático a nivel mundial.

Los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible son 17, entre los que, en materia de medio ambiente encontramos los siguientes:

Garantizar la disponibilidad de agua y su ordenación sostenible.

Garantizar el acceso a una energía asequible, segura sostenible y moderna.

Garantizar modalidades de consumo y producción sostenibles.

Adoptar medidas urgentes para combatir el cambio climático y sus efectos (tomando nota de los acuerdos celebrados en la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático).

Conservar y utilizar de forma sostenible los océanos, los mares y los recursos marinos para el desarrollo sostenible.

Proteger, restablecer y promover el uso de los ecosistemas terrestres.

Efectuar una ordenación sostenible de los bosques.

Luchar contra de desertificación, detener y revertir la degradación de las tierras.

Poner freno a la pérdida de la diversidad biológica.

Las metas que incluye la Agenda 2030 se expresan como aspiraciones a nivel mundial, siendo los gobiernos de cada país los que fijarán sus propias metas nacionales, tomando en consideración las circunstancias en las que se encuentre cada país, pero siempre persiguiendo el objetivo común. Descubre más sobre esta agenda para mejorar el medio ambiente en este otro artículo de EcologíaVerde sobre Qué es la Agenda 2030 para el desarrollo sostenible.

Si deseas leer más artículos parecidos a Política ambiental: qué es y ejemplos, te recomendamos que entres en nuestra categoría de Política medioambiental.

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Some countries and populations have benefited more than others from the industries and technologies that are causing climate change. And at the same time, the countries that have benefited the least are more likely to be suffering first and worst because of climate change.

Climate justice is the principle that the benefits reaped from activities that cause climate change and the burdens of climate change impacts should be distributed fairly. Climate justice means that countries that became wealthy through unrestricted carbon emissions have the greatest responsibility to not only stop warming the planet, but also to help other countries adapt to climate change and develop economically with nonpolluting technologies.

Climate justice also calls for fairness in environmental decision-making. The principle supports centering populations that are least responsible for, and most vulnerable to, the climate crisis as decision makers in global and regional plans to address the crisis. It also means acknowledging that climate change threatens basic human rights principles, which hold that all people are born with equal dignity and rights, including to food, water, and other resources needed to support health. Calling for climate justice, rather than climate action, has implications for policymaking, diplomacy, academic study and activism, by bringing attention to how different responses to climate change distribute harms and benefits, and who gets a role in forming those responses.

The unequal causes and effects of climate change

Wealthy, industrialized nations have released most of the greenhouse gas pollution to date - meaning they've played an outsized role in causing climate change. ⁴ Climate justice calls for these countries, along with multinational corporations that have become wealthy through polluting industries, to pay their "climate debt" to the rest of the world. In this view, stopping their greenhouse gas emissions, while hugely important, is not enough to fully pay the debt from over a century of pollution; these actors also have a responsibility to share wealth, technology, and other benefits of industrialization with the countries least responsible for the climate crisis, to help them cope with the effects of climate change and build clean energy systems and industries.

A climate justice perspective also brings attention to inequalities within countries. Within high and low income countries, wealthier people are more likely to enjoy energy-intensive homes, private cars, leisure travel, and other comforts that both exacerbate climate change and buffer them from impacts like extreme heat. Climate change also worsens pre-existing social inequalities stemming from structural racism, socioeconomic marginalization, and other forms of social exclusion. In the U.S., for example, communities of color and immigrant communities are more likely to be located in places where climate risks are more severe, such as in flood zones or urban heat islands. ⁵

The unequal impacts of taking action on climate change

Reducing climate pollution greatly benefits everyone. Yet the way we achieve these reductions could either improve or worsen current patterns of inequity for marginalized groups. For example, a carbon tax that makes it expensive to emit greenhouse gases is a part of many climate proposals; climate justice would additionally demand that these taxes be structured in a way that protects low-income people who are already struggling to pay for gasoline, home heating and cooling, and other basic energy needs. ⁶

Additionally, the principle of a "just transition" considers the economic and labor impacts of a transition to a nonpolluting economy. This incorporates the needs of workers employed in-and the communities supported by-the fossil fuel industry and other industries that contribute to climate change. ⁷ For example, the U.S. federal government offers over $180 billion in funding to assist coal field and power plant communities in economic diversification, infrastructure and workforce development as the coal industry declines. ⁸

Climate justice as a movement

Calls for climate justice grew out of a larger "environmental justice" movement, which is concerned with the ways pollution, land degradation, and other environmental problems harm already vulnerable people and communities who have contributed the least to, but suffer the most from, environmental problems. Global South nations, Black, Indigenous, and other people of the global majority and women-who have been historically excluded from decision making-have led the push for climate justice, arguing that climate change endangers their health and livelihoods. In recent years, younger people have also been leading the call for just climate action, observing that they will bear the heaviest burden from the climate change that past generations have contributed to, and demanding immediate action from those in positions of power.
Published March 14, 2022.

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Climate justice is the principle that the benefits reaped from activities that cause climate change, and the burdens of climate change impacts, should be distributed fairly.

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Tool to explore and choose stakeholders for your policy brief creation, implementation and sharing

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Societal challenges involve a multitude of actors with different roles, interests, and power. Understanding these constellations is an important basis for transdisciplinary research (TDR) projects. It is also a prerequisite to clarify whom to involve. For this task, we propose an actor analysis to gain an overview on the actor system in the field of interest and to get a clearer picture of whom to involve in a specific TDR project.
Actors are persons, groups, or organisations acting within a system of interest. Stakeholders, on the other hand, are persons, groups, or organisations that are (1) affected by the project, (2) interested in the project, and/or (3) able to affect the project. Stakeholders are part of the actors group, but not all actors are stakeholders for a specific project or organisation. Often, the terms 'actors' and 'stakeholders' are used interchangeably.

In the following, we introduce a sequence of steps providing an overview on potentially relevant actors for a TDR project. The sequence is based on Cash et al. ¹; as shortened and adapted by Tobias Buser.

Step1

Start with the (broad) focus or overarching goal of the project and identify the relevant geographical scales (ie local, regional, and global).

Step 2

Find actors in the system of interest. Answer the questions below with the aim of generating a (usually long) list of all potentially relevant actors. Regarding the project's topic and overarching goals:

Who has decision power?

Who is able to act and who needs to act?

Who can elaborate/change regulations and policies?

Who do you expect to have important knowledge and expertise?

Who should consider the results of the project?

Who should know about the project?

Who is affected by the project (intentionally and unintentionally)?

Who can affect the project?

Step 3

Differentiate and categorise stakeholders. Possible categories:

Roles of the stakeholders: What are the roles and main tasks of a specific actor or actor group regarding the field of interest?

Scale: What is the scale of influence for specific actors (local, regional, national, international, or global)?

Interest in the project: What are the main interests a specific actor has regarding the main goals of the project?

Note: Cross-tables with the actors on one axis and the categories on the other axis are a convenient way for an overview.

Step 4

Power and relations. Analyse potential stakeholders' interest and power regarding the project.

(1) Power/interest grid: The power/interest grid helps to classify actors in a way that informs who to involve. To conduct a power/interest grid, you need a certain degree of knowledge on the actor system in the field of interest. As your knowledge on the actor system increases through face to face exchange (eg interviews), surveys, and desktop analysis, the power/interest grid becomes more reliable. It is thus advisable to reconsider it from time to time.

Classify the actors based on your current knowledge into one of the four quadrants - note that power can be constituted by several factors, eg power to take decisions, economic power, social capital, knowledge, and others.

The position in the quadrants indicates the degree of involvement:

Power/interest matrix. (Based on Reed et al., 2009)

Low power/low interest: These actors are currently of little importance for the project. However, keep in mind that interest and/or power of an actor can change over time.

Low power/high interest: While these actors have little power, they may be important stakeholders for your project. Often they are directly affected by issues the project tackles, eg local farmers or migrants. Note that this is a big difference to how the power/interest grid is interpreted in corporate contexts.

High power/low interest: This group is the most difficult to deal with. These are often 'gate-keepers' that can be decisive about a project's success, but are usually very difficult to get in collaboration with. Sometimes, awareness-raising can make them more interested. Otherwise, strategies are needed that require little engagement from these actors, but keep them satisfied.

High power/high interest: These are the actors to clearly engage with in the project.

(2) Mapping of stakeholder relations: Especially in complex, contested systems, it is also important to have an idea on the relationships between the different actors. Mapping actor relations can already be a result on its own, but mainly it helps to design co-production processes in a more effective way. For example: In actor systems showing many conflictive relationships (as in the example shown below), it is recommended to first work with several sub-groups.

Example of a stakeholder mapping: small scale fisheries in southern Chile. (Based on Schneider & Buser, 2003)

Author: Tobias Buser

References

¹ Reed, M., Graves, A.R., Dandy, N., Posthumus, H., Klaus, H., Morris, J., Prell, C., Quinn, C., Stringer, L. (2009). Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management. Journal of environmental management, 90(5), 1933-49.

² Schneider, F. & Buser, T. (2003). Ressourcenprobleme und Macht in der Peripherie Chiles. Eine politisch-ökologische Untersuchung in der Region Aysén (Lizentiatsarbeit). Basel, CH: Universität Basel.

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Policies, procedures, compliance and adherence are terms that are widely used throughout organizations worldwide. However, you could be forgiven for thinking they are the perfect oxymoron! How can a set of rules intended to maintain standards, be so widely and differently interpreted and implemented?

Although different organizations create policies for their specific circumstances, their purposes and intentions remain aligned - to consistently achieve their desired standards and objectives.

What are policies

Why Policies are important

Policies are important because they define what is, and is not acceptable in the organization. When created in the right way, they will ensure that all activities undertaken in the organization occur with the simple aim of ensuring the organization achieves its objectives. They can help companies establish what kind of work they do, what they will not do and what their values are.

Policies can

help organizations maintain consistency and control over their operations.

help keep the company running smoothly and efficiently.

help employees know what is expected of them and what they should do in certain situations.

Without a set of clearly defined policies, the organization may drift in an unintended direction and fail to achieve it's objectives (or simply fail!)

The company's policies are essential for protecting the business from lawsuits, and protecting the employees from liability. They can also protect the property of the company, such as patents and trademarks.

The benefits of standardizing policies

Standardizing policies is a great way to make sure that every aspect of your company is following the same guidelines. It also helps to make sure that all employees are on the same page and know what they are expected to do. Using a consistent format across all policies provides a level of familiarity for the employees. They will know where to find the information they need within the policy and how to interpret the information the policies contain.

The benefits of standardizing policies include:

Ensuring that all employees are on the same page

Making sure that your company is following the same guidelines

Helping to avoid confusion and conflict among employees

To help you get started, here is a handy free downloadable policy template. If you really want to supercharge your policies, you can also link key data to your SharePoint policy library. This post provides step by step instructions to help you achieve this.

Why you need to manage your policies

Policies themselves also need to be managed. There is little point creating policies, and then leaving them to gather dust. After all of the effort expended in creating and perfecting them in the first place, you need to ensure you have a robust review process to ensure they remain on point.

A series of sense checks are also useful:

have they achieved the desired result?

are they understood and followed by everyone who needs to?

are they still current?

To be effective every policy needs to be read and understood by all employees who will be affected by it. Those employees also need to specifically acknowledge that they understand the policy and will abide by it. Without this confirmation, organizations cannot be sure that the policies will be followed and therefore non-compliance becomes a possibility.

Types of policy

Policies are processes that an organization has set in place to govern the behavior of its employees. These processes may outline what is considered appropriate, inappropriate or legal behavior for employees in a company. The goal of these policies is to keep the company's goals aligned with its values.

Policies are needed, therefore, for all aspects of the organization, including:

Safety policies - to ensure the safety of employees, business and manufacturing processes and customers/end users.

Employee policies - from recruitment policies to termination policies, and every step in-between. See 17 HR Policies every organization should have - Collaboris for additional information.

Marketing policies - to define how marketing campaigns will be organized.

Social media policies - to define what is and isn't acceptable when posting on social media outlets. Employees may be banned from socializing new product developments for example.

Data privacy policies - for example to comply with GDPR and to reassure clients or other interested parties that their personal information is safe.

Policy Resources

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What are Policies and why they are important!

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Policies help to ensure an organization is operating consistently with its values and goals. This post gives an overview of what Policies are and why they are important.

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"a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn". Useful to set environments to design a policy brief or explore the learnings of those involved on its implementation

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

Reenvisioning the UDL Guidelines

Because the UDL Guidelines are meant to be informed by feedback from the field as well as new research, they have been updated several times in the past. We are in the process of updating the Guidelines once again in our UDL Rising to Equity initiative.

This update will focus specifically on addressing systemic barriers that result in inequitable learning opportunities and outcomes. CAST aims to develop a transparent, inclusive, and community-driven process. If you are interested in collaborating and staying updated on our progress, we invite you to complete a brief survey.

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

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Even if this tool is describing children participation, it is a good model to see the levels on which people can be involved on the creation and implementation of a policy brief

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Compasito - Manual on Human Rights Education for Children

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AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023

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Climate Equity or Climate Justice?

A Climate of Injustice

The first question that needs answering is: Why is justice considered a central issue in dealing with the climate change problem? The answer lays in the nature of the problem of climate change which is inherently unfair. When it comes to climate change the issue of justice can be viewed from multiple angles: the problem of the distribution of emission reduction burdens among States, uneven distribution of adverse impacts over countries and people, impacts for future generations and imbalance in power connected to the negotiation process for the formation of the international climate change regime.

From all above emerges that the issue of justice is intersected with climate change in different ways. The first one is that climate change represents itself as a problem of justice originated from the uneven distribution of its adverse effects on countries and generations, different contributions to GHG emissions, and uneven capabilities to deal with the consequences. The second one is that the term "justice" makes up an essential component of the notion of climate justice which groups a number of issues concerning the legal protection of those who are more vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

The Equity Prism

By being incorporated so directly in two of the most important treaty provisions equity seems to work as an essential part in shaping the treaty obligations. Indeed, the implementation of important provisions of the Paris Agreement (see Artt. 2, 4, 14) has to comply with the equity requirement set by the same provisions. In a few words, this shows the way equity plays an important role in shaping the treaty obligations.

Photo: Rosa Manzo

By taking into account the four challenges to justice related to climate change, a call for equity there could be seen as tying together a group of injustice issues: equity is invoked in order to ensure distributive justice among States, and corrective justice in the sense of recovery and compensation from adverse climate impacts. In climate governance, equity is invoked to ensure an inclusive and transparent negotiation process. In addition to that, equity is also invoked in order to protect the interests of future generations.
About the Author
Photo: Rosa Manzo

Rosa Manzo is a researcher with particular expertise in general international law and international environmental law. She is currently affiliated with the PluriCourts Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order (Oslo). Prior to joining PluriCourts in March 2015, Rosa held a MA Degree in Law at Catholic University of Milano (Italy, 2012). In 2014 she received her MA Degree in Public International Law with option in International and Environmental Energy Law at University of Oslo. During her PhD studies, Rosa was Fulbright scholar at Columbia University (Sabin Center). In 2017 Rosa was awarded the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) to finance her stay as a visiting scholar at the New Zealand Center for Environmental Law. Rosa's research interests include international and domestic environmental law, international human rights law, aviation law and international climate change law. Rosa was appointed as Associate Fellow of CISDL in March 2021.

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Climate Equity or Climate Justice? More than a question of terminology

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By Rosa Manzo - Equity is a central element to the climate change problem, it corresponds to the complexity of the problem and it attempts to address the inherent unfairness of the problem: it is multifaceted by addressing several issues.

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Climate litigation more than doubles in five years, now a key tool in delivering climate justice

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Nairobi, 27 July 2023 – The total number of climate change court cases has more than doubled since 2017 and is growing worldwide. These findings, published today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, show that climate litigation is becoming an integral part of securing climate action and justice.

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Action for green

inclusion in European Programmes

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The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) is a voluntary code that describes the essential elements of principled, accountable and quality humanitarian action.

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The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) is a voluntary code describing essential elements of humanitarian action.

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The Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations 

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The Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations 

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The Charter sends a clear signal that humanitarian organizations have a key role to play in addressing these crises. We must be a part of the solution and help people adapt to a changing climate and environment, while also increasing our own environmental sustainability.

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We will reduce risks and vulnerability to shocks, stresses and longer-term changes through an increased focus on climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and anticipatory action. Across all of our work, including preparedness, response and recovery, we will consider and address changing climate and environmental risks in rural and urban settings. Our programmes and operations will be based on sound risk analyses, informed by the best available short-, medium- and longer-term climate and environmental science and data, and by local and indigenous knowledge.

We will support those who are the most at risk, taking into account the influence that individual characteristics, such as gender, age and disability, structural inequity, legal status, and situations such as poverty, marginalization, displacement, migration, public health emergencies or armed conflict, have on people's capacities and vulnerabilities.

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The Climate and Environment Charter is open for signature by all humanitarian organizations.

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We Are Tomorrow Global Partnership  (WAT-GP) is a bottom-up, youth-led and fully volunteer-based organisation that supports youth climate organisations across the world advocating for concrete climate ambitions.

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Climate change and lack of climate justice are global issues that impact all social groups and involve both present and future generations. Because of this, we sought to create a united and coordinated climate youth movement across the global North and South. We wanted to build a platform that would unite young voices that advocate for a climate-just future, strengthen cross-border youth networks and create constructive national and international climate action plans.

Following the aforementioned idea, WAT-GP was first established as a working group of the Youth Climate Movement NL in 2019. As of the 30th of August 2022, WAT-GP is registered as an independent foundation in order to fulfil its raison d'être as an international collaboration of youth climate organisations.

The partnership currently consists of fifteen partner organisations from the following countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, Israël, Mexico, Nepal, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Qatar, South-Africa, Switzerland, Uganda, and Yemen. Our partners are supported by a Facilitating Team consisting of the WAT-GP board and multiple Taskforces. WAT-GP team members contribute on a voluntary basis for 8-10 working hours per week.

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We Are Tomorrow Global Partnership (WAT-GP) is a bottom-up, youth-led and fully volunteer-based organisation that supports youth climate organisations across the world advocating for concrete climate ambitions

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The 12 Best Ways To Create A Sustainable Office And Work Space

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Thoughtfully curated boutique work environments for an unmatched experience.

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Movement and Sustainability Resources Are you part of an existing Green Office? Then explore the movement and sustainability resources and channels below, and make sure to officially become a Green Office Movement Member. Does your university not have a Green Office yet, but you

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An international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-centred renewable energy for all

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350 is building a future that's just, prosperous, equitable and safe from the effects of the climate crisis.

We're an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.

Here's how we get there:

We are bold, creative and strategic

The climate crisis is immense -- we must be daring and courageous in response. We embrace experiments and new solutions, recognizing that this crisis requires innovative ways of solving problems.

We work for justice

The fight against climate change is a fight for justice. People all over the world are feeling the impacts, but the people suffering most are the ones who have done the least to cause the problem.

The work we do - and the ways we do it - has to address that injustice. That means listening to the communities who are getting hit hardest, amplifying the voices that are being silenced, and following the leadership of the people on the frontlines of the crisis.

We care for and trust one another

We take care of ourselves and our communities, honor one another in our non-violent approach to this work, and share that spirit and learning with others.

No one has all the answers, so we value the experience and knowledge of our partners and our communities. That's why we listen to them -- so we can learn and evolve together.

We are stronger when we collaborate

The climate crisis is not just an environmental issue, or a social justice issue, or an economic issue - it's all of those things at once. The only way we will be strong enough to put pressure on governments and stand up to the fossil fuel industry is if we all work together.

That means bringing people together and building diverse coalitions - from students, to workers unions, human rights and social justice groups; from marginalized communities and faith groups, to universities, business owners and all those who believe in the need for transformational change.

We are transparent and accountable

To ensure the integrity of our work, we strive to be transparent and open, while respecting everyone's right to privacy and ensuring people's safety.

We are accountable to each other, to the people and groups we collaborate with, and to those impacted by our work. We strive to honor the relationships we build with each other.

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The mission of APAN is to build climate change resilient and sustainable human systems, ecosystems and economies through the mobilisation of knowledge, enhanced institutional capacity and informed decision making‐processes, and facilitated access to finance and technologies.

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Join the #8thAPANForum! Share your lessons learned from your climate change adaptation initiatives. Join the biggest gathering of adaptation actors in the Asia-Pacific Region. The 8th APAN Forum will take place in-person from Wednesday 30 August to Friday 1 September during the Korea Global…

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C40 is a global network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities that are united in action to confront the climate crisis.

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C40 Cities - A global network of mayors taking urgent climate action

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C40 Cities is a global network of nearly 100 mayors of the world's leading cities that are united in action to confront the climate crisis.

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The Centre will support the people of the Caribbean as they address the impact of climate variability and change on all aspects of economic development through the provision of timely forecasts and analyses of potentially hazardous impacts of both natural and man-induced climatic changes on the environment, and the development of special programmes which create opportunities for sustainable development.

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Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)

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On Climate Change

Through its role as a Centre of Excellence, the CCCCC will support the people of the Caribbean as they address the impact of climate variability and change on all aspects of economic development, through the provision of timely forecasts and analyses of potentially hazardous impacts of both natural and man-induced climatic changes on the environment, and the development of special programmes which create opportunities for sustainable development.

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre coordinates the Caribbean region's response to climate change, working on effective solutions and projects to combat the environmental impacts of climate change and global warming.

The Centre serves as the executing agency for projects related to Climate Change in the Caribbean. Please find details on a selection of ongoing and recent projects here.

Since its inception, the CCCCC has worked with various partners to develop a suite of tools to help users make climate resilient decisions, take appropriate actions in response to variable and changing climate, and empower the Region to act on climate change.

Find here staff vacancies at the Centre and at sister agencies and partner institutions across the region. Also listed, information about the procurement of goods, services and short contracts

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Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)

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Empowering People to Act on Climate Change

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Climate Lab wurde durch den Klima- und Energiefonds und das Klimaschutzministerium (BMK) gemeinsam mit der Wien Energie, EIT Climate-KIC und Impact Hub initiiert.

Gemeinsam teilen wir die Überzeugung, dass die auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität notwendigen Lösungen sich nur in neuen Partnerschaften entwickeln lassen. Quer über Branchen und Sektoren müssen wir zusammenarbeiten, wie nie zuvor.

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Climate Lab - Gemeinsam, schnell und innovativ zur Klimaneutralität

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Climate Lab bringt Partner aus verschiedenen Sektoren, Fachbereichen und Branchen zusammen, um gemeinsam und innovativ an Klimalösungen zu arbeiten.

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For CARE International, climate justice is about realizing a future in which the poorest and most marginalized people have significantly improved their wellbeing and can enjoy their human rights through greater resilience to the climate emergency, increased equality and a global temperature rise that is limited to 1.5°C.

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As the climate emergency grows, it is estimated an additional 132 million people will be pushed into poverty by 2030 as a result of climate change.

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La Via Campesina - Key Documents on Climate and Environmental Justice

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What are we fighting for? " Climate and Environmental Justice " Key Documents (Climate Justice)

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Jugend Eine Welt - Policy für mehr Klimagerechtigkeit (Deutsch/German)

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Jugend Eine Welt - Policy für mehr Klimagerechtigkeit (Deutsch/German)

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Green Diversity - Climate Justice Policy Box

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Organizations, take note! This box is packed with ideas and guidance for promoting sustainability and climate justice in your work. Take action and start your first steps with creating and implementing your Climate Justice Policy.

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Virtuelle Projektbesuche Klimagerechtigkeit

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Inspiramos a la ciudadanía a perseguir la justicia climática mediante nuestras acciones

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Associazione di cooperazione e solidarietà internazionale LVIA

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Chi opera con LVIA deve avere solide motivazioni, professionalità elevata, competenze e conoscenze tecniche e grande capacità relazionale. LVIA sceglie per le proprie attività in Italia e in Africa, persone capaci di gestire i progetti a diversi livelli e con diversi gradi di autonomia, coordinando, motivando, supervisionando, indirizzando e gestendo le complesse relazioni tra i differenti attori coinvolti nelle attività.

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Teile deine Geschichte zur Klimagerechtigkeit | SCI Deutschland - Freiwilligendienste, Workcamps und mehr

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Teile deine Geschichte über Klimagerechtigkeit und verschaffe deiner Stimme Gehör! Unser Ziel: Eine interaktive Karte mit Geschichten über Klimaaktivismus auf der ganzen Welt.