Our How-to Host a Climate Café guide is available in Arabic, Portuguese, Swahili, French, Spanish and English
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Our How-to Host a Climate Café guide is available in Arabic, Portuguese, Swahili, French, Spanish and English
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Our How-to Host a Climate Café guide is available in Arabic, Portuguese, Swahili, French, Spanish and English • Our How-to Host a Climate Café guide is available in Arabic, Portuguese, Swahili, French, Spanish and English •
Force of Nature climate cafés
Young people are experiencing the current and anticipated effects of the climate crisis at an alarming rate. We urgently need safe, community-centred spaces to discuss the climate crisis, share our feelings, and empower one another to act.
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Preview of our free ‘How to Host a Climate Café’ guide in 6 languages - Spanish, French, Portuguese, English, Swahili and Arabic.
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A climate café is a community-centred space for people to have open conversations about the climate crisis and how it makes them feel. Every climate café is different: some might include unstructured discussions, while others could feature events and workshops. They should all feel safe, open and accessible.
Climate cafés are not a new concept and a number of other organisations have similar initiatives. -
Now, more than ever, we need spaces to host discussions about the climate crisis, how it affects us and the actions we need to take to tackle it. Individual actions alone won’t solve the climate crisis, but by coming together as a community, we can find comfort in our shared experiences, learn from different perspectives and model the world we wish to create.
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Every year, world leaders gather at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to assess progress on climate action. These meetings are important moments; yet only select groups of people are able to participate in them. In the run up to COP27 in 2022, we started our climate café initiative to provide a template for community-organised events. This wasn’t a new concept, but the first global and youth-led version. We produced a free and accessible guide that draws on our years of experience leading eco-anxiety research and facilitating climate conversations. We also launched a microgrant scheme to support people who wanted to host a climate café but faced financial barriers. So far, thousands of young people have participated in or hosted their own local climate cafés worldwide.
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Start by submitting this form to receive your free how to host a climate café guide and other resources. It will provide you with a step-by-step process on hosting and facilitating; from choosing a location, to deciding who to invite.
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Beyond hosting your own climate café, there are lots of ways to get involved. You can help us share the climate cafés with folks in your community using our toolkit, find out if someone is hosting a café near you, or donate to help support activists who face financial barriers via microgrants.
Find a climate café
Are you interested in climate cafés but not ready to host your own?
Find a public climate café near you on the map, then visit this list for more details, including location and contact details for the host.
Not all climate cafés are open to the public; some people may choose to host one privately with friends, community groups, family, etc. Therefore, this is not a complete list of all climate cafés.
Don’t see a climate café near you?
Sign-up to access our free and accessible ‘How to Host a Climate Café’ guide to learn how to host your own. It provides a step-by-step process for hosting and facilitating, from choosing a location to deciding who to invite. All you need to do is express your interest in hosting a climate café by filling out this form.
Patience Makheti - Nairobi, Kenya
“We all need a 'friend' in these times, and I feel like these climate cafés are the perfect setting.”
Sam Daniele - NYC, United States of America
“The climate café has quickly become a safe space for people, of all ages, to process their climate emotions, share personal stories, and support one another.”
Locations of climate cafés hosted around the world
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And a huge thank you to those who have contributed via our crowdfunding campaign…
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