Climate Action

NGO defends the rights of people in the Global South

Mar 26, 2025 | Biodiversity, Climate Action, Denmark, Farm to Fork, Food Security, Inspiring initiative

NGO Global Aktion defends people’s rights in the Global South with a local approach.

Passing on experience-based knowledge on sustainability

Mar 20, 2025 | Climate Action, Inspiring initiative, Lithuania

Sustain Academy hires sustainability specialists with real-world experience to teach the new generation of specialists.

ACCTING Narrative: Contributing to tackling environmental disasters

Aug 1, 2024 | Climate Action, Italy, Narratives

Bernardo, 69, Italy, believes in the contribution of disabled people in tackling environmental disasters.

Rethinking production and consumption

Jun 20, 2023 | Clean Energy, Climate Action, Inspiring initiative, Poland

The Zero Waste Association aims to promote a zero-waste lifestyle by gathering local leaders, professionals, and change agents willing to participate in the organisation’s mission; transforming production and consumption patterns towards a circular economy. This enterprising idea suggests environmentally friendly solutions to fasten the just transition to a greener way of living for the benefit of the environment and the community.

An Incubator for the Community Economy

Mar 25, 2025 | Climate Action, Inspiring initiative, Netherlands

Amsterdam’s Incubator for the Community Economy seeks to support grassroots initiatives and foster a democratic, localised economy.

Swedish association encourages people to initiate local transitions

Mar 15, 2025 | Biodiversity, Clean Energy, Climate Action, Farm to Fork, Food Security, Inspiring initiative, Sustainable Mobility, Sweden

Swedish non-profit association educates, encourages, and supports local transition initiatives since 2013.

Social resilience in primary schools

Jan 25, 2024 | Climate Action, Croatia, Inspiring initiative

This initiative brings together social researchers and educational training practitioners from several Croatian institutions to research aspects of social resilience of schools in situations of natural (climate) disasters, as well as to empower them to enhance their resilience through learning and experience sharing.

Protecting forests in Turkey

Mar 25, 2025 | Biodiversity, Climate Action, Inspiring initiative, Turkey

The Akbelen Forest Solidarity collective in Turkey demonstrates how an environmental struggle to protect forests threatened by coal mining redefined public interest based on the rights of people to a healthy environment.

Transforming Iasi into a smart and sustainable city

Jan 6, 2025 | Climate Action, Disabilities, Inspiring initiative, Romania, Sustainable Mobility

Iasi, Romania, is evolving into a Smart City with the goal of improving the quality of life for its citizens.

A flexible aid platform for disaster relief actions in Austria

Dec 10, 2023 | Austria, Climate Action, Inspiring initiative

The Austrian Red Cross and Hitradio Ö3 founded Team Austria (original: Team Österreich)- a flexible aid platform with the goal to channel the willingness of people in advance to help during natural disasters and other emergency situations.