We’re Building a Diverse Climate Movement
Including and empowering voices from all communities
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a nonpartisan grassroots organization strengthened by including and elevating all voices. With 500+ local chapters across the country, it only makes sense that our demographics represent and celebrate America’s diversity.
This representation includes populations in the United States most impacted by the climate crisis, particularly frontline communities. We actively work to seek out, include and amplify voices and solutions from these communities in our local chapter work.
CCL volunteers build momentum for change through activities like:
- Meeting with Congressional leaders
- Writing letters to the editors and op-eds
- Meeting with local media
- Educating your community about global warming and legislative solutions
- Participating in chapter and volunteer development
We welcome you to join us and begin working toward climate solutions in your community. Fill out the form and let’s get started.
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Our Diversity Core Value:
“We empower everyone in exercising their personal and political power regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability, socioeconomic factors or political affiliation. We continue to bring awareness of important issues to all our volunteers and foster a sense of belonging to our organization.”
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Perspective
Climate change is a public health issue. Maintaining the current status quo will continue to pollute our air, prematurely killing 70,000 Americans per year. This threat to public health is current, ongoing and must be addressed.
The effects of pollution and environmental degradation fall most heavily on frontline communities that are marginalized in our society, especially Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. There is a legacy of racially biased policies that have created and perpetuated this imbalance
We cannot wait to transition off fossil fuels when people in these communities are dying from the worst effects of climate change. Things will only get worse if we don’t eliminate harmful emissions.
There is no cure-all solution to the environmental justice problems we face. To make progress, we work together to prioritize people over business and the economy, starting with local solutions and conversations.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby believes in the dignity of every person and that all of us should have access to clean water, clean air, and healthy food. These disparities must be addressed while we transition to a zero emissions economy.
We value unique, local perspectives. We trust that volunteers who live and work in their communities are the ones who best understand how to take action with a grassroots approach. Our volunteers work to to promote diversity, equity and inclusion while making space for big discussions that incorporate the views of those most harmed by the climate crisis.
On a national level, we maintain a full-time, in-house Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) staff who work to provide programming, coordinate action teams and determine how to best recognize and uplift the environmental justice perspective within our efforts.
Meet Some of Our Volunteers
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a grassroots, nonpartisan organization. Our supporters are organized into local chapters which reflect the character and politics of where they are located. Each Chapter works with their members of Congress to enact climate change solutions.
Meet some of our volunteers contributing to our diversity, equity and inclusion programs on a local level.
Citizens’ Climate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programming
Some of our current national Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)-related initiatives include:
- Inclusion programming
- Scholarships for volunteers to attend our annual conference
- Youth Outreach and Engagement
- Conservative Outreach
Learn more information about our national DEI programming.
On a local level, chapters are encouraged and supported in their DEI initiatives. Activities vary by chapter, but volunteers everywhere uphold diversity as a core value.
On a national level, we offer the following programs. Follow us on BlueSky, Instagram, and Threads at @cclinclusion for program scheduling.
Inclusion Workshops
Spanish Language Support
Action Teams
CCL has more than 50 action teams where volunteers with the same interests can engage with others outside their local chapter. The Inclusion Action Teams work closely with our staff members and were created in response to our volunteers’ interests. They are as follows:
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- Asian Pacific
- Climate and Culture
- Climate & Environmental Justice
- Conservative Outreach
- Diversity and Inclusion (Home of the Inclusion Workshops)
- Interfaith
- Higher Education
- Latinos
- LGBTQIA+ and Allies OUTreach
- Listening to Indigenous Voices
- Peace Corps Action Team
- People of the Global Majority (group for BIPOC support only)
- Persons with Disabilities
- Youth
We also empower our chapter volunteers to learn about different diversity and inclusion efforts. Beyond individual chapters, we work with CCL’s Regional Community Ambassadors and Diversity & Inclusion Fellows to help in our local and regional community-building efforts.
Related Pages:
- Conservatives, Higher Education and Youth Support
- Climate & Environmental Justice
- Citizens’ Climate en español: Ciudadanos por un Clima Vivible
Additional Resources in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Climate:
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