Overview
Has the organized environmental community mismanaged the climate change issue, as some have asserted? Should environmentalists devote more attention to building coalitions with other constituencies, including for such purposes as communicating credibly on scientific matters? How can social scientific findings and historical experiences from other scientifically grounded issue campaigns inform efforts to achieve citizen-driven change on the climate change issue? Project Participants are addressing these and other issues to help generate strategies informed by previous scientifically grounded campaigns that have achieved citizen-driven change.
Participants
Tov Anderson
Frances Beinecke
Cynthia Brill
Jessica Catto
Benson Chiles
Diane Doucette
Maggie Fox
Michel Gelobter
Hank Habicht
Hal Harvey
Theresa Heinz
Nida Helou
Richard Jordan
Gara LaMarche
Jonathan Lash
James Martin-Schramm
Danielle Meitiv
John Meyer
Christopher Nelson
Carl Pope
Carlos Rymer
Larry Schweiger
Peter Seligmann
Bill Shore
Edward Skloot
Theodore Smith
John Wargo
Wren Wirth
Marie Zwicker
2 comments
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan here — while I am Chairing the 60th DPI/NGO COnference, I have also noticed that no one is focusing on what I would call Strategic and Innovative Delivery Systems.
First, philanthropies: if climate change will impact us all, then to what degree will foundation giving actually have little or no impact on IMPROVING delivery of services? Playing “catch up” might morebe the case.
I spoke with someone from Australia working with a HUGE philanthropy based in Atlanta, and when I pointed this idea out to him, it was more or less dismissed as “right, good point” — but not of much interest, more or less let’s just keep giving the money away since in 10 years the money will be gone anyway.
Or, on another note, how would a project such as Art of the Olympians enable great Olympic athletes who also are artists to create new are for new urban spaces? And alert people to the urgency of the issue of climate change?
The relation of constitutions of Member States of the UN to issues such as the human right to a healthy environment. Did the work of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment back in 1994 actually bear fruit?
While this is a time of “the great transition” and thinking 70 generations ahead, vision needs to be enhanced by funders and the concept of giving might be re-examined: should all requests deal in some way with the issue of climate change.
Richard Jordan
April 6th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Richard Jordan
The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Climate Change on the 17th of April.
As Chairman of the conference on climate change in September at the UN, I will be preparing a short piece for informal presentation to the UK Ambassador in advance of the meeting.
Any input from anyone before I do so??
Richard Jordan