The Glasgow Climate Action Hub (GCAH) has an important role to play in balancing the many strengths and challenges of our city. Glasgow is a brilliant city with a rich heritage, culture and a tradition of community activism in strong neighbourhoods. It’s well known as a friendly city, but it’s also a city with entrenched poverty and inequality, and like most of the developed world, it is a city which consumes the earth’s resources at an unsustainable rate, contributing to climate change. The threat of climate change is now well known. The window to respond to prevent irreversible damage to the world’s climate is narrowing rapidly, and the effects of climate change are already clearly visible. While progress is being made, it’s not enough. We are now at a point in time when we must not only take greater action to prevent climate change; we must also respond to the rapidly emerging effects. Action is needed now that both reduces carbon emissions and supports communities to prepare for a worsening climate.

The Hub has some big goals that we want to achieve:

• We want communities to have the knowledge, skills and support that they need to respond to the climate emergency.

• We want groups in Glasgow to have the chance to collaborate, and influence change.

• We want the voice of diverse communities to be recognised in climate action.

• We want the voice of all communities to be recognised in local and national decision making.

Whether you’re a community group or a citizen, we have something for you so please take a look at what we have to offer.

GCVS is the lead partner working closely with Glasgow Eco Trust, ApparelXchange, Loco Homes Retrofit, Glasgow Community Energy, Rags to Riches (Govanhill Baths Trust), Merry Go Round, Parents for Future Scotland, Woodlands Community Development Trust and Awaz Voice of the Community .