Mutually Assured Survival: Prioritizing Local Climate Action
“We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.” Group discussions to mobilize for local climate action.
Reserve your spot to hear from climate experts and engage in the participatory panel discussions aimed at facilitating local activities and advocacy to most effectively address the climate crisis.
Mutually Assured Survival: Prioritizing Local Climate Action builds on the experience of its first annual Climate Forum, Feeling the Heat (2021) and Forum II Mutually Assured Survival: Priorities for Climate Actions (2022). Both recordings are embedded below.
This participatory gathering is the third event hosted by dedicated volunteers from U.N. Association Chapters across the Western USA.
An unprecedented collaboration among local community organizers and sector leaders seeking to address the growing climate crisis in concert with the United Nations as an indispensable global partner in achieving a safe and sustainable world for all.
THE FORUM
- Seeks to emphasize the urgency for timely localized actions and collaboration among local stakeholders, aiming to break down silos and scale up high-impact solutions.
- Aims to offer practical, effective take-aways that participants, their organizations and partners ought to prioritize for action at the local, regional and state levels.
- Mobilize for actions by individuals, local communities including businesses, and municipalities paired with imperative advocacy to affect decision-makers across sectors by transcending silos.
Designed for front-line leaders, activists, organizers, practitioners and educators, the Forum will focus on five key strategic arenas for effective local climate action. During registration, you will be asked to choose a breakout room from five (5) different ones to engage:
BREAKOUT A
- PHASING OUT FOSSIL FUELS | THE TRANSITION: Green Renewable Energy in Transportation and the Built Environment
BREAKOUT B
- ELECTRIFYING EVERYTHING | INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GREEN ENERGY: Electric Vehicles, Microgrids, Community Solar, and Environmental Justice
BREAKOUT C
- THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY | GREEN PRODUCTS: Materials, Environmental Social Governance (ESG), Supply Chain, and Behavior Change
BREAKOUT D
- FOOD & FOOD WASTE | FOOD PRODUCTION & CONSUMPTION: Regenerative Ag, Distribution, Composting, Recycling, Landfill, Environmental Justice, and Food Deserts
BREAKOUT E
- ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION | CONSERVATION & RESTORATION: 30x30, Biodiversity, Nature-Based Solutions, and Environmental Justice
THE WHY
On March 13, 2023 Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Switzerland. Pointing to IPCC’s consistent and factual reporting on the science of climate change over the years, Guterres stressed that the evidence for urgent climate actions is “irrefutable”.
“Our world is at a crossroads — and our planet is in the crosshairs. We are nearing the point of no return;... (w)e are at the tip of a tipping point…” [UN Press]
As a movement of Americans, UNA members believe that their interests and values can best be advanced by standing with the planet’s only truly universal institution: The United Nations. In our daily, local advocacy efforts in support of and for the United Nations, our Chapters are committed to raise awareness and mobilize support for the most compelling and urgent solutions on Climate Change involving national, state, and local governments, civil society, and the private sector.
Learn more about the forum at www.unawestclimate.org
“We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.” Group discussions to mobilize for local climate action.
Reserve your spot to hear from climate experts and engage in the participatory panel discussions aimed at facilitating local activities and advocacy to most effectively address the climate crisis.
Mutually Assured Survival: Prioritizing Local Climate Action builds on the experience of its first annual Climate Forum, Feeling the Heat (2021) and Forum II Mutually Assured Survival: Priorities for Climate Actions (2022). Both recordings are embedded below.
This participatory gathering is the third event hosted by dedicated volunteers from U.N. Association Chapters across the Western USA.
An unprecedented collaboration among local community organizers and sector leaders seeking to address the growing climate crisis in concert with the United Nations as an indispensable global partner in achieving a safe and sustainable world for all.
THE FORUM
- Seeks to emphasize the urgency for timely localized actions and collaboration among local stakeholders, aiming to break down silos and scale up high-impact solutions.
- Aims to offer practical, effective take-aways that participants, their organizations and partners ought to prioritize for action at the local, regional and state levels.
- Mobilize for actions by individuals, local communities including businesses, and municipalities paired with imperative advocacy to affect decision-makers across sectors by transcending silos.
Designed for front-line leaders, activists, organizers, practitioners and educators, the Forum will focus on five key strategic arenas for effective local climate action. During registration, you will be asked to choose a breakout room from five (5) different ones to engage:
BREAKOUT A
- PHASING OUT FOSSIL FUELS | THE TRANSITION: Green Renewable Energy in Transportation and the Built Environment
BREAKOUT B
- ELECTRIFYING EVERYTHING | INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GREEN ENERGY: Electric Vehicles, Microgrids, Community Solar, and Environmental Justice
BREAKOUT C
- THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY | GREEN PRODUCTS: Materials, Environmental Social Governance (ESG), Supply Chain, and Behavior Change
BREAKOUT D
- FOOD & FOOD WASTE | FOOD PRODUCTION & CONSUMPTION: Regenerative Ag, Distribution, Composting, Recycling, Landfill, Environmental Justice, and Food Deserts
BREAKOUT E
- ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION | CONSERVATION & RESTORATION: 30x30, Biodiversity, Nature-Based Solutions, and Environmental Justice
THE WHY
On March 13, 2023 Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Switzerland. Pointing to IPCC’s consistent and factual reporting on the science of climate change over the years, Guterres stressed that the evidence for urgent climate actions is “irrefutable”.
“Our world is at a crossroads — and our planet is in the crosshairs. We are nearing the point of no return;... (w)e are at the tip of a tipping point…” [UN Press]
As a movement of Americans, UNA members believe that their interests and values can best be advanced by standing with the planet’s only truly universal institution: The United Nations. In our daily, local advocacy efforts in support of and for the United Nations, our Chapters are committed to raise awareness and mobilize support for the most compelling and urgent solutions on Climate Change involving national, state, and local governments, civil society, and the private sector.