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Community Leaders Visually Depict Their Priorities Related to Climate Change and Health
The NAM engaged CCN Members in a photo project to highlight the strengths they bring to the table in addressing the climate crisis and their vision for the future.
About the Program
The Climate Communities Network (CCN) brings together community leaders (“Members”) who work for community-based organizations in U.S. communities that are disproportionately impacted by climate change and related health outcomes. The CCN will elevate community expertise, experience, and efforts to address the structural drivers of unevenly distributed climate-related health outcomes in Member communities.
Alongside CCN Strategic Partners, who are invited representatives from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry, CCN Members will influence and work across the Climate Grand Challenge to catalyze innovation, inform policy, drive funding, and co-design solutions.
The CCN will have two initial main goals:
- Inform the strategic direction and outcomes of the Climate Grand Challenge.
- Work collaboratively to identify and develop solutions to unevenly distributed climate-related health outcomes.
Grand Challenge
Climate Change and Health
The Climate Communities Network is part of the NAM Climate Grand Challenge, a multiyear global initiative to improve and protect human health and well-being by working to transform systems that both contribute to and are impacted by climate change.
Why Community Solutions Matter for Climate Change
Many U.S. communities do not have equitable access to the resources and infrastructure needed to keep people and neighborhoods healthy, particularly in the context of the worsening climate crisis. These communities are also often not engaged as equal partners in the decisions that affect their health and well-being.
In response to this, the NAM established the CCN and called for membership applications from local leaders representing community-based organizations that serve areas disproportionately affected by health-related impacts of climate change. Strategic Partners representing government, philanthropy, academia, and industry were invited to work alongside the selected Members to catalyze innovation, inform policy, drive resources, and co-design solutions.
As part of the CCN, Members will share their community’s stories, expertise, and experience; elevate work in their community or organization to address climate-related health inequities; access partnerships and tools to advance solutions; help inform climate-related policy, research, and other interventions; and influence the direction of the NAM’s climate work. Fundamentally, the CCN aims to shift power and provide a platform for communities disproportionately impacted by climate change and related health inequities. Together, Members and Strategic Partners, facilitated by the NAM, will become a community of practice, and Strategic Partners will play a critical role in co-designing and bringing to fruition community-determined solutions to climate-related health inequities.
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Steering Committee
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Sponsors
Contact Information
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