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Results have a good model for mobilising people to take action on an issue, worth developing for climate

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Results have a good model for mobilising people to take action on an issue, worth developing for climate

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RESULTS is a movement of passionate, committed everyday people who use their voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty.

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Create, publish and publicise a 'model' example of responding to a council's climate action plan

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Create, publish and publicise a 'model' example of responding to a council's climate action plan

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Series of Infographics on Effective Climate language for persuasion

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Series of Infographics on Effective Climate language for persuasion

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building on Climate Outreach

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for a data librarian and a story-telling data journalist. Unfortunately not within scope ...

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A project to recruit, train & support 'community climate champions'  based in research teams, policy units, universities etc, would be really useful: seed funding for an agency to pilot 

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A project to recruit, train & support 'community climate champions'  based in research teams, policy units, universities etc, would be really useful: seed funding for an agency to pilot 

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Support climate change data journalism micro-grants in under-reported regions

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Support climate change data journalism micro-grants in under-reported regions

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Some seed funding specifically to enable reuse of an approach, technology or dataset

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Some seed funding specifically to enable reuse of an approach, technology or dataset

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Some of my Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team work has been related to climate change mitigation (although usually termed "disaster preparedness"), but OpenStreetMap is also more generally a platform for sharing map-based data. A "data commons", which organisations can (and some do) put their data into. It helps with issue of projects dying in obscurity. Their data is shared and discoverable, inviting collaboration, an will live on even if their project dies.

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well-organised local roadshows can engage people in an issues & developing like Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, as well as Citizens Assemblies, Town Meetings, Network Accelerator events

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well-organised local roadshows can engage people in an issues & developing like Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, as well as Citizens Assemblies, Town Meetings, Network Accelerator events

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Gone from 2 to 20 Green councillors in Oxfordshire in 4 years.

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Communications between climate champions and citizens

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Communications between climate champions and citizens

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How can, e.g. the local authorities that have declared climate emergencies engage citizens with their actions so there is mutual understanding? A combination of engagement software used in public consultation with local data and the psychology used by climate action to reach different audiences.

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cross-country with other initiatives to collect data.
With the local "umweltamt" (environmental protect dept)
Try to setup individual action app https://co2app.ok-lab-karlsruhe.de/home

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Or data librarians.. we are investigating how we can resource and raise the profile of experts in particular sectors to jump-start others and increase collaboration

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Amazon Mining Watch uses machine learning to map the scars of mining activities in the Amazonian countries. By constantly analyzing high-resolution and historical satellite images, this tool aims at identifying the fast-paced growth of open-pit mining in the largest rainforest in the world. This database is here to help journalists, activists, and researchers better understand the causes and impacts of the mining industry.

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Amazon Mining Watch uses machine learning to map the scars of mining activities in the Amazonian countries. By constantly analyzing high-resolution and historical satellite images, this tool aims at identifying the fast-paced growth of open-pit mining in the largest rainforest in the world.

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We arranged a programme of hour long webinars over a year where we invited local experts who the communities may have been familiar with eg local cycling club to talk about e-bikes and community bikes and local garden society to discuss food and growing. We asked them to speak for 20 mins and then had a very open sessione where people could interact, share and learn

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The very people who are impacted by climate change impacts do not understand the words. In essence, climate communication should be localized for people to understand and get involved in the fight.

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I come from health care technology, home to many misguided steps.
The golden rule is to speak to the coal face and listen carefully to their answers.
A current example is Sandoz (?) health care spread over smart phones in China.

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Maybe a German specialty: federal, state and communal authorities tend to try to shift responsibility to other level.

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We can encourage citizens to use data to talk to their representatives, but if those higher in government don't lead the way - talk more and set more policy about climate - a) citizens are not going to prioritise climate change as an urgent issue and b) local councils are not going to have the funding they need to put plans into place, assuming they want to.

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Identifying & connecting with climate officials working on a topic internationally

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Identifying & connecting with climate officials working on a topic internationally

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Persuading people to make hard decisions

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Persuading people to make hard decisions

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Something that’s come up a few times in mySociety’s prototyping weeks, has been the challenge of getting people to accept short term inconvenience or risk, for a long term (and often non-individual) return. Incentives are tricky to identify and then communicate.

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Too many projects don't have a robust or well-evidenced theory of change, or have even spent much time considering it.

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Difficult to get reliable data for many areas, e.g. GHG emission for sectors, accounting, effects of individual actions, communal actions, etc.

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Particularly for projects that aim to create or open up information that could be used by a wide variety of stakeholders, the ultimate impacts may be hard to track and demonstrate

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We are using a digital tool tool and blended approach to try and reach the communities we are working with. We've contacted stakeholders in those communities to engage them and ask them to assist us in reaching the members of their communities, used traditional social media, put up posters and held informal coffee mornings etc. We try to ensure there are multiple places they are hearing about us to keep nudging. It's important to have examples of success to inspire and encourage. Also education is essential - not formal training but talking to people, sharing best practice and news etc.

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https://www.globalforestwatch.org/ - Global Forest Watch is an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time. GFW is an initiative of the World Resources Institute, with partners including Google, USAID, the University of Maryland, Esri, Vizzuality and many other academic, non-profit, public, and private organizations.

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Forest Monitoring, Land Use & Deforestation Trends | Global Forest Watch

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Global Forest Watch offers free, real-time data, technology and tools for monitoring the world's forests, enabling better protection against illegal deforestation and unsustainable practices.

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We have worked in many communities where we see the same thing time after time, the time it takes to reach people to let them know you're here and then the apathy from those people because they think they've heard it all before and don't believe this time will be any different. They also don't think small local changes can make enough of a difference.

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https://www.mysociety.org/climate/climate-prototyping/

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mySociety’s Climate Programme is halfway through a series of six prototyping weeks, and having caught our breath we’re keen to hear from people who may be interested in our next one, starting 13 June 2022.

As a reminder, our prototyping weeks bring together specialists on a topic, for a series of online workshops exploring challenges and successes, and defining a specific approach we can then go on to design and test in the second half of the week.

In the next one we’ll be exploring the role that civic technology could play in enabling a fair (or just) transition to a world that’s reducing climate risks and harm. In particular, we suspect it might make sense to focus on employment in the UK. I’ve shared some thoughts on this below, and we’d be grateful for different perspectives on what the scope of this work could be.

Perhaps we’ll test solutions to skills shortages that are critical to a fair transition, like the desperate need for more multi-trade home retrofitters to tackle the UK’s leaky housing stock. Or we might explore a way to enable empowered career change for workers in high carbon industries. Or maybe build on the growing recognition of undervalued and unpaid labour, such as care work, and related ideas like a 4 Day Week, Universal Basic Income and insourcing.  We’ll take our inspiration from the people in the room – so if you’d like to get involved, please fill this short form to express your interest and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

We know that some people may be excluded from attending these sessions for financial reasons. If that applies to you, we can offer, to a limited number of participants, a gift card or payment of £20 per hour of your time as thanks for your participation.

What is fair transition?

The idea of a fair transition in the context of climate is open to a range of interpretations, because the concept of fairness itself is contested. Within mySociety our Climate Programme, Climate Action Group and Anti-Racism Group provide opportunities to discuss and develop our own understanding, and we’d love to hear your thoughts on this too.

Environmental justice is a related concept that I’ve found useful. This is the idea that environmental degradation and damage tends to disproportionately harm those who are least responsible for causing it. This pronounced pattern can be observed over time and spatially, across a range of issues. For example, polluting infrastructure is often located in communities that are already highly exposed to structural oppressions like racism. Busy roads often cut through communities where car ownership is low. Places created by these injustices are sometimes described as sacrifice zones, and are discernible from local to global scales.

A question we’re grappling with is whether to focus on addressing environmental justice within the UK, or internationally. When I campaigned for clean air in Bristol, I was swayed by an excerpt from the Universal Manifesto of the Emmaus movement that appeared on the wall of their charity shop: “Serve first those who suffer most.” On that basis there’s a compelling case to focus on supporting those constrained in their ability to adapt to climate change, in parts of the world already experiencing the most devastating impacts.

But for a UK-based organisation there are also risks of perpetuating patterns of colonialism. While not wanting to think too rigidly or shy away from working on a decolonised approach, the #DIYAfrica theme of 2021’s Civic Tech Innovation Forum reminds us of the importance of initiatives that are rooted in place: “We are interested in African DIY democracy – how we are co-creating meaning, identity and solutions in and for Africa.”

Another way of accelerating a global fair transition could be to focus on decarbonising the UK as quickly as possible. The UK has a huge historical responsibility for creating climate change and is very capable of action, so as a minimum contribution towards the UK’s global fair share we should reduce greenhouse gas emissions faster than most other nation states.

Our approach so far is in line with this, relying on a theory of change that identifies local government opportunities. And while our services so far have been designed for the UK context, we know that local governments elsewhere in the world are often at the forefront of climate action and hope that by sharing our work openly it will be picked up and reused.

We can also apply a fair transition lens within the UK. This allows us to incorporate the extreme inequalities in UK society when considering pathways towards our global fair share. In 2019 IPPR’s Environmental Justice Commission launched its final report – Fairness and opportunity: A people-powered plan for the green transition. More recently Autonomy’s Toll Gates and Money Pumps report suggests a policy that could spur climate action while redistributing wealth. And their Data Unit is brewing up a multidimensional job database to enable practical planning and implementation of a fair transition.

On top of this, the intergenerational and racist dimensions of climate change are of real relevance. Friends of the Earth published an emergency plan on green jobs for young people in 2021, responding to the impact of economic scarring on “Generation Covid”. The report also references work by The Resolution Foundation highlighting that structural oppressions often compound injustices: “Evidence from autumn 2020 showed that young and black, Asian and minority ethnic workers (BAME) workers were far more likely to be made unemployed after furlough ends.” These prototyping weeks offer opportunities to put mySociety’s Equity, diversity and inclusion policy into practice, in particular through a “commitment to our projects and services supporting the pursuit of equity for minoritised groups, and being accessible and inclusive – designed with, and used by, diverse communities.”

We’re trying to figure all of this out as we go and we’re lucky to have the luxury of these prototyping weeks to invite and support people from outside of mySociety to be involved. Please do express your interest if you’d like to help shape our work – we’d love to meet you!

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mySociety provides technology, research and data to help people be active citizens, in more than 40 countries around the world.

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Klimawatch  German communal CO2/GHG status and reduction plans

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ed.rofedoc@retsneum

Ein Projekt von:

Klimawatch ist freie Software und lizenziert unter der Apache License Version 2.0 .
Hier lang zum Quelltext.

Impressum & Datenschutzerklärung

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Wie siehts aus mit Klimaschutz in meiner Kommune?

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A portal to make climate data more searchable, trusted and connected.
We want to enable climate change makers of all stripes to get the best data they need to achieve their goals. The Catalogue is also a part of a cultural change, to encourage orgs to open up their data. We have also worked on building a sensible metadata standard to be interoperable with other efforts.
We prefer to make metadata visible, so are happy to list non-open data to give users the best possible options.

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This website runs using CKAN. In their own words:

CKAN is the world’s leading open-source data portal platform. CKAN is a complete out-of-the-box software solution that makes data accessible and usable – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data (including storage of data and provision of robust data APIs). CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organizations) wanting to make their data open and available.

CKAN is used by governments and user groups worldwide and powers a variety of official and community data portals including portals for local, national and international government, such as the UK’s data.gov.uk and the European Union’s publicdata.eu, the Brazilian dados.gov.br, Dutch and Netherland government portals, as well as city and municipal sites in the US, UK, Argentina, Finland and elsewhere.

CKAN: http://ckan.org/

We have extended the core functionality, leaning on the extensive work of the CKAN community and other users. The code that runs this site lives here: https://github.com/ClimateSubak/docker-ckan/

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Making climate data searchable, trusted and connected. The Subak Data Catalogue brings together climate data from all over the internet, helping our community of innovators work faster on climate.

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https://data.climateemergency.uk/

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There is a disconnect between local discussions on local issues and the big changes that are coming, like the end of the private motor car that in 15 years will be no more relevant than the horse and cart.

Where are the games that will immerse us in the future?

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We are working with communities of place and interest, engaging and organising on ideas from those members which are climate related. Using our platform it is possible to crowdsource to take these ideas into active projects and also manage a participatory budget to fund these projects. You can find out more at hello.vocaleyes.org 

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We are working with communities of place and interest, engaging and organising on ideas from those members which are climate related. Using our platform it is possible to crowdsource to take these ideas into active projects and also manage a participatory budget to fund these projects. You can find out more at hello.vocaleyes.org 

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We also have worked with Swansea Environmental Forum to produce an early version of an Inspiration Hub where peole can find replicable projects to try out in their communities and also add some of their own for others to discover. You can find out more here: inspirationhub.org.uk

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The for profit practices of social media and mass media are amplifying hate of other groups. For all the energy and $$ going into advocating issues and their solutions (like climate changes) there seems to be an effective amount of money and energy preventing those solutions. And the result is we are divided, and progress is not.

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EnCiv is building open source sw to make democratic discourse productive online, at large scale. Our first tool was undebates (github.com/EnCiv). And our mission is to bring more productive in person dialog and deliberation processes online to engage and unite everyone.

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EnCiv Communities - Productive Inclusive Democratic Discourse Online at Scale

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For most people who're working voluntarily in their spare time on civic tech, there aren't enough hours in the day to both develop a solution and promote it effectively across the available media channels. I've worked with students/early-career marketers so they can build their skills while working to promote something they care about, but Real Life  means they don't stay long due to new roles/commitments.

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There are tons of orgs out there working on similar-but-different solutions. This represents a lot of wasted/duplicated effort.

Also non-profits often are funded for very specific things that they can deliver individually, so they are not incentivised to put effort into working with one another.

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As a techie, it's relatively easy to build solutions, but there's a whole different skillset involved in publicising them and getting people onboard with them.

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Crowdsourced tips and ideas for running a local eco-event. Just a shared, manually-maintained Miro board for now but plan to port it into a more coherent site.

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In-development: Map combining emissions disclosure by local organisations with their sustainability initiatives to inspire/inform their peers and encourage them to collaborate.

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What is Cambridge Carbon Map?

Easily explore the carbon emissions in your city and identify how you can make the most impactful contribution using our easy-to-use, online carbon map!

Your organisation has a crucial role to play in promoting decarbonisation.

Are you a member of a business, educational institution or society based in Cambridge? Are you looking for ways that your group can make an impactful contribution to the environment? Whatever your previous experience with sustainability, Cambridge Carbon Map wants to talk to you. By placing your organisation onto our digital map, we help organisations to share, learn from, evaluate and inspire each other's actions, empowering long term sustainable change powered by data. Sign up to the map now!

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What is Cambridge Carbon Map? Easily explore the carbon emissions in your city and identify how you can make the most impactful contribution using our easy-to-use, online carbon map! Your organisation has a crucial role to play in promoting decarbonisation. Are you a member of a business, educational institution or society based in Cambridge?