Our History
Since its launch in 2012, one major achievement was our partnership with Keep Scotland Beautiful to address the lack of any ethnic minority communities in receiving Climate Challenge Funding (CCF). This partnership was delivered by CEMVO with support from EMEN, and resulted in the number of ethnic minority projects funded through CCF going from 0 to over 150, with over £15 million allocated funds.
Our Vision
To ensure that the experiences and inequalities felt by minoritized ethnic communities are not further exacerbated by the climate crisis while supporting a human-centred approach towards developing climate mitigation and adaption plans at various levels.
We put the environment at the centre of everything we do. The climate crisis is one of the biggest challenges we face, and we work together to protect the environment’s health because it is inseparable from our lives.Â
We work with diverse communities towards a low carbon society. Climate change will change the way people live in their built and natural environments. We’re a community, and we’re focused on tackling climate change issues to better our society and our lives.
We work together with people around the UK to ensure climate justice. Our approaches to climate change include social, economic, public health, and other adverse impacts on different people.Â
We want to ensure that all climate mitigation and adaption efforts are just and representative of the needs and priorities of minority ethnic groups
PROVIDING training and self-development opportunities for members, including Climate Changemakers residential, Leadership Development Programme, Campaigning, Activism, and Public Speaking.
The Ethnic Minority Environmental Network (EMEN) is a platform and resource for all ethnic minority voices to engage in climate change issues and policies and to develop links with environmental stakeholders.
BUILDING leadership and capacity of network members to advocate and campaign for social & environmental justice.
