On Amazon Day, VCA Brazil launches a new space for activists, youth, women, social movements, indigenous peoples, traditional peoples, academics and civil society organizations to tell their stories, share their experiences, and propose new paths for a truly sustainable and just future. The magazine is now available in English for download.
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Como ativistas, jovens, mulheres, movimentos sociais, povos indígenas, povos tradicionais, acadêmicos e organizações da sociedade civil vêm atuando para construir um novo paradigma de desenvolvimento tão necessário para o enfrentamento à emergência climática a partir da Amazônia? No Dia Mundial do Meio Ambiente, as vozes que lutam por justiça climática na Amazônia Legal lançam um novo espaço para contar suas histórias, experiências e propor novos caminhos para um futuro verdadeiramente sustentável e justo.
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The VCA advocates that change and climate action should be led from the bottom up, with strong local organisations representing their constituents' experiences, voices and needs. Strong local leadership and ownership are key for effective and inclusive climate action. Core to the VCA is the 180+ local community-based and non-governmental civil society coalitions and organisations sub-granted through the programme. To create a marketplace of ideas that can foster cross-pollination of learning and collaboration, a collection of project profiles have been developed to provide a snapshot of the work implemented under the VCA Alliance at the country level through local partners. The project profiles - packaged as a booklet- are a collection of information on the projects onboarded in 2022. Some of the projects may have changed or been extended, but the current version of the profiles provides a basis for the work being done and details on the local partners working in the VCA. Further versions will be created with updated information, profiles and languages.
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This document aims to share VCA's conference objectives and the messages we aim to amplify.
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The Indigenous Yshir communities have been living for over 500 years on the banks of the Paraguay river in the Pantanal.
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Through interviews and research, the team took a closer look at the narratives surrounding climate change
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During a multistakeholder event on Thursday, March 2, 2023, WWF-Netherlands aligned local input from the Voices for Just Climate Action network with know-how from the Dutch stakeholder field.
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Farmers have been ruined, lands abandoned. Agricultural zones that were still flourishing just five years ago have since dried up. Water scarcity caused by climate change and rising temperatures has a direct impact to bear on Tunisia’s food security—far more than the conflict in Ukraine.
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VCA27@27 was hosted as a side-event at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in 2022. The event comprised of a screening of a 27-minute video that featured contributions from 12 youth activists and youth-led initiatives, and 9 VCA local partners from Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Bolivia, Zambia, Indonesia, Brazil and Paraguay. The video showcases various local innovative solutions addressing the climate crisis, including locally shaped nature-based solutions. The event is a direct outcome of joint efforts between youth movements, local partners and VCA. It created a space that enabled voices from vulnerable communities to be heard and demonstrated the power of diverse and honest storytelling in front of a global audience that included representatives from donor agencies. Furthermore, the event was able to forge connections, creatively provide grassroots voices a seat at the decision-making table and spur meaningful discussions on the importance of grassroots agency and urgent need to moblise finance.
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Making media and information literacy resources accessible for diverse groups can mean adapting them into multimedia formats or taking into consideration linguistic preferences for sharing information – or both. Rising Voices opted for taking both approaches in order to reach Indigenous audiences that are often left on the margins of the field of media and information literacy.
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