ECOSSISTEMA • LABS DE INOVAÇÃO
Lab de Inovação em Justiça Climática
The Climate Justice Innovation Lab is a collaborative space for leaders in the Americas, working together to advance the climate justice agenda. In the first stage (2023), the Lab convened innovators who shared knowledge and built trust. In its second stage (2024-2025), the Lab will focus on fostering collaboration between synergistic organizations, including philanthropic institutions, impact investors, development organizations and grassroots community leaders, to share knowledge, experiences and resources to generate concrete solutions that materialize climate justice across territories, countries and cultures.
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Globally, the communities least responsible for climate change are often the first and most severely affected by its impacts. Integrating the Climate Justice agenda with the Just Transition economic movement is mandatory in order to increase climate resilience and generate positive social and environmental impact in marginalized communities across the Americas.
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• Map and engage the Climate Justice ecosystem in the Americas.
• Build a trust-based network of Climate Justice leaders.
• Explore the root causes of Climate Injustice.
• Map existing gaps and opportunities.
• Prototype solutions, including new finance mechanisms, to deliver a fairer, sustainable future.
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1. Ecosystem: Engage 50+ community leaders from indigenous, black, and traditional communities across the Americas; and 200+ international leaders from philanthropic institutions, investors, corporations, entrepreneurs, academia and government oficials.
2. Knowledge and Capacities: Enhance the participation of Climate Justice leaders in at least 4 high-level international events, bringing marginalized or excluded voices to relevant events and places of power, democratizing access and influencing decision-making; Co-create rocommendations and offe spaces for experience and knowledge exchange bewteen CJ leaders across the Americas.
3. Collective Action: Prototype new financial instruments and mobilize USD 5+ million of new philanthropic / blended capital to fund innovative solutions that deliver Climate Justice by 2025; influence the impact thesis and governance model of existing and/or new funds, redirecting billions of dollars from development and loss-and-damage funds to scale up climate justice in priority regions across the Americas.
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Confront deep-rooted systemic injustices, reckon with historical legacies, and challenge power dynamics to address climate justice comprehensively. Leverage the Climate Justice agenda across the Americas, bringing principles and recommendations to influence Just Transition policies and strategies across the continent.
