Connecting community to climate research through understanding, action and resilience
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Connection and Support
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Understanding
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Action
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Building Resilience
The Climate Centre's mission is to connect in-need communities to climate research. We provide essential technical support to those who cannot afford consultancy services, drawing on the expertise of our skilled and dedicated volunteers. These volunteers are committed to using their talents to make a positive impact in underserved communities. Our initiatives focus on community-driven projects, outreach, and collaboration. We rely on a passionate network of volunteers to conduct vital scientific research on pressing issues such as heat stress, flooding, and fire risk. We offer non-profit support through initiatives like remote monitoring of weather and climate, environmental assessments, and modeling future climate scenarios.
The Climate Centre's mission of connecting community to climate research begins with understanding. Public outreach is a cornerstone of our mission, which involves conducting interviews with subject matter experts and communicating climate news and research to society in a way that is easy to understand. We conduct research relevant to local communities such as heat stress, fire risk, and ecosystem health to help society be informed about the issues affecting their areas. By undertaking studies relevant to small communities, communicating the science in simple and relevant language, and engaging stakeholders in pragmatic and meaningful discussions we foster and grow understanding of climate changes impacts on community at a scale relevant and actionable by society.
Climate change and community challenges are ultimately addressed by taking action. By undertaking work relevant to local communities and providing stakeholders with actionable recommendations, we shift the mindset from impossible to actionable by leading stakeholders through the problem towards something they can do regardless of their financial or logistical capabilities. Assessing the environmental conditions and then recommending changes in line with science and government regulation comprise The Climate Centre's goal of taking action to address climate change. But we also take action through our social justice efforts, advocating for government and industry to change their practices to be more sustainable.
Resilience is an increasingly important aspect of dealing with climate change. In the face of this existential threat, many people in society feel hopeless, exhausted, and daunted by the challenge that climate change poses. We encourage society to build resilience by first acknowledging the issues facing their communities locally, regionally and globally, and then by providing actionable solutions: a path towards building a better future. This is an important part of building resilience. Eco-anxiety is highly impactful to our efforts, and we must reflect on our circumstances, validating our situation, not as a way to give up, but as a way to carry on making positive change to ourselves, and the world around us.
