Collective Action: Holding Governments Accountable

Climate change is a collective problem that requires collective action. Governments around the world have failed their people time and time again in their latent and often insignificant responses to the climate crisis. In order to hold them accountable, communities have rallied together to protect their land, resources and livelihoods. Using tools and strategies such as increasing voter demand for environmental leadership and locally driven strategic litigation, people are coming together to demand change. They are ensuring healthier, more stable environments by supporting successful guardianship for indigenous territories and preventing resource-based conflicts.
This panel will discuss the ways in which communities can compel governments to protect their citizens from serious structural harm and inequality and take serious steps in slowing global warming. The challenge for the philanthropic community is to think bigger, work across silos, and establish the mechanisms that secure rights for the local people, for those who play a critical role in the care and management of the biodiversity and natural resources on which humanity depends.
Speakers
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim (Speaker) Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad, President
Tessa Khan (Speaker) Climate Litigation Network, Urgenda Foundation, Co-director
Nathaniel Stinnett (Speaker) Environmental Voter Project, Founder & Executive Director
Peter Seligmann (Speaker) Nia Tero