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How to take action
It may seem impossible that you can do anything about something as enormous and global in scale as CC. But in the last few years many successes have been achieved by individuals and small groups of people concerned about the effects of CC on their communities and globally and prepared to take on powerful government and corporate interests.
Practical tips
Short guides on how to take action are produced by ELAW and WCEL
Greenpeace has released in December 2018 a special People’s Guide which is a comprehensive practical guide for communities who want to use Human Rights arguments to hold governments to account. Look at Chapters 4 which contains advice as to how communities can actually bring cases.
Coming Soon: The A4J Resource Bank will be adding to its resources a series of easy to adapt editable templates. These will assist those wanting to bring climate change cases in drafting the documents and evidence needed.
What evidence you need will depend on the type of action. However in most CC cases this will include expert scientific evidence. Much CC science is now well accepted and can be taken from existing authoritative reports. However you may need specific evidence on matters such as
All the organisations below are involved in using the law to help combat CC. All operate internationally. One or more of them will be able to help you.
WCEL (Canada)
Centre for International Environmental Law (USA)
AIDA (Latin America)
Columbia Law School (USA)
Client Earth (Europe)
CER (Africa)
Earthrights International (Asia)