Banlieues Climat

Banlieues Climat develops its project through three poles 

• Division 1: training and raising awareness. A face-to-face training center in the neighborhoods. Banlieues Climat organizes awareness-raising and popularization workshops on climate issues and environmental health. The aim is to impart the necessary knowledge on climate issues and raise awareness of the link with the deterioration of environmental health in working-class neighborhoods and the need to adapt. 
• Division 2: meeting people on the ground. A partnership hub dedicated to meetings with local players in several French cities, to develop local actions that can serve the populations concerned and give them the power to act on their own scale. 
• Cluster 3: making your voice heard. An advocacy pole to introduce the voices of young people from working-class neighborhoods into decision-making forums. Banlieues Climat wants to involve working-class neighborhoods at the highest levels of decision-making. The association wants to support projects that will enable people from working-class neighborhoods to be a driving force behind proposals and provide the tailor-made solutions needed to mitigate the environmental impact on vulnerable groups. 

Banlieues climat aims to inform, train and mobilize groups from working-class neighborhoods around environmental health issues and the consequences of the climate and biodiversity crises. 

It has several objectives: 

• To raise awareness of the climate crisis and biodiversity, and show the concrete consequences for working-class neighborhoods, in terms of access to water and food, the impact of heatwaves, air pollution and access to nature. 
• Mobilize groups in working-class neighborhoods around environmental health issues, supporting them by giving them back the power to act on their environment. 
• Enable the voices of local residents to be heard on issues of environmental health and adaptation to the climate crisis.

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