Organisation / Hub: EquiRoots Climate Collective – Global EquiRoots Climate Collective Network

Contact Person: Monika Barcikowska, Cecile Schott

Contact Email: mjb.womenforclimate@gmal.com

Description

EquiRoots Climate Collective (ECC) is dedicated to creating climate-resilient communities and ecosystems, with inclusivity and regeneration at its core.

The “From Climate Risk to Resilience” project aims to foster collective narratives that bridge climate impacts, risks, adaptation awareness, systems thinking, and transformative leadership.

How?

We invite individuals and organizations to co-create multistakeholder dialogues informed by the science of cascading climate impacts, inspired by art, and guided by the transformational leadership framework of the Inner Development Goals.

“From Climate Risk to Resilience ”

1. Europe’s Fast-Changing Climate Reality

Human-induced climate change is affecting the planet, with Europe as the fastest-warming continent. These changes will impact our daily lives through health and other systems, such as food, water, energy and infrastructure, the economy, and the ecosystems we depend on.

2. How can we adapt to climate change in a way that regenerates these systems while building resilience and social cohesion?

EquiRoots Climate Collective (ECC) hosts an online systems-thinking capacity-building journey, From Risk to Resilience: u.lab. The intention of this learning experience is:

– to integrate insights from the first European Climate Risk Assessment EUCRA on societal resilience through a systems thinking lens.
– to prototype climate solutions by integrating diversity, equity, inclusion, and biodiversity into underlying societal value systems.

These conversations place particular emphasis on bridging the inequality gap, as well as connecting AI/technology with Indigenous knowledge and nature-based solutions.

We invite activists and artivists, sustainability experts, students, health and systems thinking practitioners to participate in this collaborative experiment aimed at prototyping pathways that bridge adaptation planning, transformative action, and social equity.

We encourage individuals/organizations interested in any of the following
1) sectors: health, water, food, ecosystems, well-being and economy, energy and infrastructure, mobility;
2) cross-cutting themes: media& storytelling, art& culture, youth, data&technology;

Learnings

The project has developed into a formal co-learning systems-thinking journey in the context of the recent release of the first EU Climate Risk Assessment, the upcoming UN Summit of the Future and COP 29 in Baku. This event is an official satellite event of the EU Climate Pact.

Participants include scientists, researchers, experts from the food, fashion, and mobility sectors, sustainability officers, climate leaders, ACT&ARTivists, Ambassadors of the European Climate Pact, NGO leaders, and climate justice equity-focused civil organizations.

Session 1 – Eco-Systemic Intention and Integrity
Session 2 – Co-Sensing Vulnerabilities & Potential Shifts
Session 3 – Regenerating the Value System
Session 4 – Prototyping Synergies for Resilience

Harvesting Collective Prototyping and Systemic Evolution for 2025:

We are creating an open-for-public IDG Conversation Café that challenges and regenerates the definition of collective well-being. The current project aims to amplify and integrate the stories and voices of the most vulnerable, fostering new narratives for climate-resilient food, health, water, peace, and mobility systems.