What Is A Climate Hub?

Community-led climate hubs are springing up across the UK. They’re a response to inaction by global governments on the climate crisis, and the realisation that to avoid the worst we need to take action ourselves, while constantly pressing governments for ambitious policy matching the scale of the challenge.

Climate hubs, Ecohubs, Climate Emergency centres: whatever you want to call them, their goal is the same. They are community-led spaces aiming to bring together residents, businesses, councils, universities, churches and schools, to build a local climate action plan that can protect the future of the communities to which we belong, while helping mitigate the global climate crisis. To do this we need to reach outside the ‘climate bubble’, engage those not currently involved in climate action, and climate hubs can be a great way to do this.

Best case scenario, climate hubs can help spur policy-makers along at the pace set by communities. Worst case, they help us remodel how we live and work in the face of a changing planet, and build adaptation and resilience in our communities and locally-focused economies which can be self-sufficient in the future.

For details on how Zero Carbon Guildford formed their Climate Hub in 18 months please visit https://transitiontogether.org.uk/building-community-action-through-climate-hubs/