Climate change is not just purely environmental or physical in nature. It’s also an ethical and political issue, framed as climate justice. We believe it is possible to foster a just transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient futures with a new level of civil society leadership. This will require a renegotiation of already unequal rights and a reimagination of the relationship between people and nature.

Local and global voices

Our Alliance brings together global and local voices by connecting four strong Southern CSOs with two Northern CSOs. Together we have a deep understanding of climate issues, international reach in public and private spheres, experience in capacity strengthening for lobbying and advocacy, strong women’s rights, gender and inclusion programmes and involvement in climate finance mechanisms.

Add your voice to the Panda growl for Climate Justice

Climate Justice has no frontiers. Diversity and collaboration make climate action powerful. WWF-NL is actively working to put locally-shaped climate action at the center of the global climate debate. We do this together with our strategic partners from the VCA Alliance. In the Netherlands, WWF is set to create awareness and spur public debate, working closely with our Alliance partner Hivos.

Joins us for Just Climate Action.

Who we are

The Alliance consists of Slum Dwellers International, South South North, Fundación Avina, Akina Mama wa Africa, Hivos and WWF-NL (lead partner). Our governance is based on transparency and trust, as well as Southern voice and ownership through broad Southern representation in decision making at all levels.

More information

We have selected a few interesting publications and articles for further reading:

• ‘Amplifying Voices for Just Climate Action’ is a five year strategic alliance supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For more information about the program, agenda and how to collaborate, visit the Alliance website: or contact us via info@voicesforclimateaction.org.

• "Just Climate Action" Learn about Climate Justice and the work of the VCA Alliance in this 2-pager.

• Delivering real change: inspiring stories and results by IIED about getting international climate finance to the local level.
• Unlocking climate finance for decentralised energy access: inspiring stories and results by Hivos providing an overview of present climate finance flows towards decentralised energy access projects.
• Inspiring stories and results about Taking a Rights Based Approach to Action for Climate Empowerment by the Mary Robinson Foundation
• Inspiring stories and results about Going beyond Western models of value to shift the power by Bond.

Grievance procedure

To present a complaint related to the VCA programme you can write to grievance@voicesforclimateaction.org or use the grievance mechanisms of the individual Alliance partners. Please indicate the reasons of your grievance, date of occurrence, proposed solution and a contact to follow up.