Community organisations and climate action
Community organisations are taking decisive and impactful climate action. Such action is made up of a multitude of activities, which are often motivated by goals to improve people’s lives or the places where they live rather than explicit goals of reducing carbon emissions. This report:
- outlines what climate action looks like among community organisations (which we term community businesses), whether climate-focused or otherwise
- considers what makes such action or business models viable and replicable, presented in such a way as to be readily used by community businesses
- considers the climate impact of these actions and models, setting out a framework that can aid in measuring and maximising impact.
This research, delivered by IPPR North and Locality for Power to Change, involved an extensive evidence review, developing a list of
diverse case study community businesses, and engaging these organisations and other stakeholders in roundtables.
This research includes two key outputs:
– a framework for measuring climate impact across nine typologies and 10 examples, which can be used to assess impact (see example graphic below)
– a Climate Opportunity Map that identifies potential opportunities and barriers for different climate-focused business models, and how they might be replicated.
