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Environment and climate
Why integrate an environmental and climate perspective?
A habitable planet is an absolute necessity if we are to succeed in achieving any kinds of progressive development.
Analyzing your operations from an environmental and climate perspective makes it possible to see how your target group and the aims you want to achieve are affected by the climate and environmental crisis. It is also a way to minimize the project’s negative effects on the environment and climate. But the most impactful thing you can do is to think about how your operations can contribute to positive effects!
We want as many of our partnerships as possible to contribute to the fair, green transition that needs to take place at record speed throughout the world. This is known as a Just Transition and it is one of the Palme Center’s political priorities. By merging the transition to a fossil-free world with the important work for equality, we can make more sustainable progress on several issues. We can also get more people to support the transition.
Working for climate and environment in a partnership can take many forms, depending on what is most relevant in your context:
- Reducing climate emissions in a way that also combats inequality.
- Strengthening your target group’s ability to protect themselves against the effects of the climate crisis that are already here, or on the way.
- Protecting and restoring local living environments that people depend on for their livelihoods, culture, health and safety.
- Ensuring that natural resources such as water are used in a sustainable and fair way, thus minimizing the risk of violent conflict.
Method materials on environment and climate
Climate policy for a Just Transition
With this brochure, we want to show the opportunity that a Just Transition means for the international labour movement and other progressive organisations, and inspire new collaborations.
Report: Feminist policies for climate justice
In order to make the climate transition fair and successful, girls and women need to be recognized as central actors. This report describes policies that can help us build a green and gender-equal world. The Palme Center has contributed a chapter on Just Transition with a gender perspective.
Support questions when planning your operations
Questions that you can use when you are planning and following up your work, to assess your impact when it comes to environment and climate. (An excerpt from the Project Management Handbook.)
Just Transition
The climate and environment perspective is to be integrated broadly, in all operations and activities. But the Palme Center also has a specific goal, a political priority, related to the climate and ecological crisis. It is called "Sustainability through a Just Transition—countering climate change".All regional programmes contribute to this priority on an overall level. Individual operations/projects choose whether they work actively with this goal.
