Testimonials

“Achieving a just transition, and reaching ambitious climate and sustainability goals, requires a much greater engagement of socially vulnerable and marginalised groups. The ACCTING project has made a very important contribution to better understanding how this can be achieved. The project underlines the pivotal role of local, community-led initiatives (CLIs) in providing accessible and supportive spaces that nurture both individual and collective behaviour change. However, it also finds that few policies currently recognise this potential of CLIs to advance social justice and environmental transition. As a result, they invariably struggle with economic, regulatory and structural barriers that greatly limit their scalability and impact. This is consistent with the findings of ECOLISE across multiple other projects and, therefore, ECOLISE fully supports the recommendations of ACCTING in calling for policies that recognise and support the critical role of CLIs in empowering and enabling individual and collective action for a sustainable and just transition.”