Green Neighborhoods – Growing Local Action Nationally in Denmark

It is sometimes difficult to imagine how local action on complex problems, such as the climate crisis, can have a substantial impact on solving the problem.

Our learning session with DeltagerDenmark, hosted in collaboration with the LCN Climate Justice Group, dived specifically into that challenge, learning from the broad reaching Green Neighborhood Groups that has spread to every municipality across Denmark in recent years. In this session, we learned from DeltagerDenmark’s experience of building a national network of neighborhood groups, and explored questions around how to reach new constituencies and build a broader base for the long term in the climate justice movement.

This session also was an opportunity for climate justice organizers and organizations to connect and learn from each other’s experiences.

• Watch the discussion to hear answers to some of the questions raised by the participants:
• How can you bridge the urban-rural divide and engage new constituencies to join the struggle for a livable planet?
• How can you balance the tension between slow, broad-based building and the urgency of immediate substantial impact and change?
• How do you get people in the door initially?
• When did the groups really took-off and began to reach scale? How do you catalyze that?
• How do you walk the line between allowing for local specificity and agency versus national coherence and consistency?

About DeltagerDenmark / ParticipationDenmark

Works with leadership development, capacity building and campaigns usually in partnership with civil society organizations, labor unions and various other public or private actors to achieve social change. Through a grant from the KR Foundation they work specifically with organizing and campaigns around climate change. Through a recent merger with DBT they will broaden their scope to work internationally as well.

About LCN Climate Justice Community

The LCN Climate Justice Community is a group of climate justice organizers and trainers who are creating an inclusive community of hope and resilience at LCN that reflects the experiences of people in the Global North and Global South. It is a space where they can collaborate, learn, and grow with one another.

Please fill out this form if you’re interested in joining their learning circle for organizers and other upcoming events.