Climate chat - everyday climate action
Outside the Box
Booking for this event is restricted - please sign up for a My SCVO account or sign in to access the booking form if you are eligible
- Day
- Wednesday 5 February
- Time slot
- 09:30-10:30
- Room
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Harris suite
Wheelchair accessible - Contact
-
Louise Wilson
07706433938 - Topics
- Environment Families and communities Equalities and human rights
- Overall aim
This session shares stories and lived experience of everyday climate action and explores:
- Ways to include people and communities in climate action.
- Reframing issues to reduce stigma, widen the discussion, include more people, and seek a broader set of alternatives and solutions.
- Connecting human rights to climate action and the right to a healthy environment .
- Description
Climate change affects everyone, but we don’t always know what to do or how our everyday actions stack up to make a difference. Last year, with Scottish Government funding we worked alongside seldom heard groups and people and we discovered a real interest and desire to get involved from people who are not normally included in climate action work. We worked with older people in remote rural communities, people with learning disabilities, and people from New Scots and LGBTQ+ communities. Many people were worried about rising costs around food, energy and heating, and replacing plastics. They had good ideas for saving energy, reusing and repurposing, and ways to share the ideas and impacts with others. This session shares stories and lived experience of everyday climate action and explores -
- Ways to include people and communities in climate action.
- Reframing issues to reduce stigma, widen the discussion, include more people, and seek a broader set of alternatives and solutions.
- Connecting human rights to climate action and the right to a healthy environment.
Outside the Box is an independent charity working across Scotland with people and communities who want to make their community work better for everyone. Our work is underpinned by equalities and human rights principles. Everyone wants to contribute and has something to offer.
- Who is the event aimed at?
Frontline service delivery
- Who is speaking at this event?
- Outside the Box staff team
