Discussions and Actions on Climate and Environment

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Six environmental legal NGOs from Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Spain joined forces under the umbrella organisation Justice and Environment to focus on climate issues and law. They selected climate change adaptation and climate rights. The objective is to raise awareness of EU citizens about climate change policies and law, e.g., on adaptation to climate change (but also leaving room for mitigation) and citizens' climate rights. The project supports the climate goals of the European Green Deal and the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change. The method to attain this goal is to undertake a) a collection of public opinion via polling and surveys and interviews in order to uncover the public perception of the issue, and b) a number of national events, aimed at environmentally conscious citizens, environmental NGOs and other stakeholders (e.g. students, journalists) to discuss climate change adaptation questions and climate rights issues, and c) a final closing event where beneficiary organisations with the involvement of national stakeholders and the EU Commission share their experience and knowledge and formulate a standpoint and communicate it to EU decision-makers. The results will be an influence on the EU and thereby on national climate change adaptation policy. The project actions will reach at least 18 thousand EU citizens in the project countries and 10 thousand more in other Member States. Direct participants (appr. 100 per participating Member State) will benefit from being engaged in climate policy shaping. Project outputs will be 6 polling results, 6 legal analyses, 17 national events (and related reports), 1 international event, 1 set of advocacy submission. Project actions and steps will be properly covered by communication actions both in the national media and in social media, and outputs will be available online, both on the websites of the participating NGOs and of the coordinating Association Justice and Environment.