PEOPLE’S VOICES IN NATIONAL CLIMATE PLANS

Mohamed Adow, Nobert Nyandire, Anna Kirilenko, Dr Abdelghani Maroufi and Melissa Cardenas

FEBRUARY 2021

This paper investigates how trajectories of deep change can be triggered by civil society, as the representatives of the communities and as agents of change in the socio-environmental contexts. We offer critical insights into the possibility of transformative change, through four case studies (Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, Morocco and the Philippines) around how civil society organisations (CSOs) and nonState actors (NSAs) (academia, business, cities, critical intellectuals, etc.) emerge in specific socio-environmental and political landscapes, what they do to catalyse change (shifting policy discourse, generating alternative evidence, and challenging power), and with what consequences.