Community Based Climate Action
Category Description
Due to the rising challenges of climate change, communities/grassroots-level organisations across the world have started using their innovative indigenous knowledge and implementing the same at the grassroots level. These initiatives help in mitigating and adapting to climate change and lessen the carbon footprint created in our society.
This category aims to recognize such community-led climate action projects by a local government body, the community itself, community-level grassroots organisations, youth groups, women-self-help groups, or by an individual. However, the initiative should have been implemented and practiced by the community members themselves.
These awards recognize the innovative and outstanding community-led initiatives that work to address the climate change issues at the grassroots level and mitigate the same through their local knowledge, and the available resources to build mechanisms to restore the depleting climatic conditions, for a sustainable future.
The Community Based Climate Action award will be awarded under 5 sub-categories to acknowledge the wide-range of impactful work being done in the domain of community-led climate action. Communities and organizations are encouraged to choose the thematic area(s) that describes their work best.
The thematic areas can include (but not limited) to the following:
- Biodiversity Conservation,
- Green Energy Adoption,
- Sustainable Waste Management,
- Sustainable Agriculture Practices,
- Natural Resource Management, among others.