Voices for Just Climate Action SSN Brazil

The Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) Programme is being implemented in 7 countries, including Brazil. In VCA Brazil the programme targets Local Amazonian communities represented by rivereins, indigenous people, and quilombolas. Based on inclusiveness and gender equality, we will focus on: a. rural and urban communities in biodiverse areas; b. women from social movements, c. youth active on climate or in adjacent fields. VCA Brazil will include grassroots organizations, but also women, youth, rural and urban social movements that are not necessarily formally constituted. In order to create enabling conditions to have local voices effectively heard in decision-making processes, and to enhance their influence. Additionally, the Programme will also link-local voices to supportive financial institutions and the private sector in Brazil and abroad, which could prove to be a powerful combination. This could open space in business agendas to hear local voices and their demands and solutions for effective climate actions. Jointly we can open the debate about the consequences of business as usual occurring in the Amazon. Public opinion should reflect an awareness of climate change’s negative impact on economic activities and push companies to transform their practices towards a regenerative economy.The Programme in Brazil will also link local voices to supportive financial institutions and the private sector in Brazil and abroad, which could prove to be a powerful combination. This could open space in business agendas to hear local voices and their demands and solutions for effective climate actions. Jointly we can open the debate about the consequences of business as usual occurring in the Amazon. Public opinion should reflect an awareness of climate change’s negative impact on economic activities and push companies to transform their practices towards a regenerative economy. The Brazil Alliance members have a joint ambition to overcome the barriers to civic participation in order to catalyse climate solutions that promote socio biodiversity in the Amazon. The organisations have complementary expertise and are ideally positioned to ignite the necessary change to make this happen.