Justice & adaptation

There are many organisations and initiatives seeking to ensure that a just transition is addressed alongside the climate emergency and encouraging nature and biodiversity.  Find out more and get involved:

Useful links:

• Guide to climate justice from Creative Carbon Scotland
• Climate Just provides tools to identify groups vulnerable to climate change
• Crack The Crises - Together to Tackle the Covid, Injustice, Climate Change and Nature Emergencies

It’s important that you involve people in talking about how the climate emergency will affect them, and how climate action can take their needs into account. Holding events where you can talk to your local community and work together to find solutions for their problems is a good step towards inclusion. 

The Scottish Government is funding a nationwide network of climate action hubs across Scotland in 2023/24 which will help facilitate action and conversation. Two pathfinder hubs are already established in the North East of Scotland and Highlands and Islands. 

Useful links:

• Climate Conversations pack from Net Zero Nation
• Climate emergency toolkit for youthworkers from Keep Scotland Beautiful
• Talk climate change website – how to have a climate conversation

Even if we cut all our emissions (by doing things like generating renewable energy and making homes more energy efficient), there are already changes set in motion that we need to prepare for. 

The Community Climate Adaptation Routemap is a practical guide to help communities to adapt to climate change.

This interactive resource serves as an easy-to-follow guide to cover everything from regenerating nature to greener household actions such as reducing dampness and overheating. It also covers self-sufficiency in local communities, transport options to reduce emissions and how to check that areas have sufficient insurance against climate risks.

Useful links

• Community Climate Adaptation Routemap
• Using the community climate adaptation routemap - launch event

If you are creating green jobs through hiring staff to work on eco-projects, think about how you can open up your hiring practises to bring people into the green industry who are under-represented or marginalised.  If you run employability or skills projects, include opportunity in green industries or green skills/ training opportunities in your programmes.

Useful links:

• Green Jobs in Scotland from Skills Development Scotland
• Green Jobs Academy from My World of Work
• Inclusive green jobs from Accenture

We are already seeing evidence of a changing climate in Scotland. Over the last few decades our climate has warmed, rainfall patterns have changed, and sea-levels have risen. The weather extremes we experience are also changing with our hottest days getting hotter and our wettest days getting wetter.

Try starting a conversation with your staff or wider communities about what a climate ready Scotland might look like in the areas where you are working.

The Climate Ready Places visual shows us what adaptation might look like across different landscapes;  uplands, lowlands, coastal, industrial, suburbs and city. The ideas were gathered from a dynamic workshop with people working on adaptation across Scotland and in many different sectors.

Useful links:

• Climate Ready Places visualisation tool from Adaptation Scotland
• Take a look at Climate Projections Summary for Scotland from Adaptation Scotland
• 15 Key Consequences of Climate Change for Scotland from Adaptation Scotland