{"id":6,"date":"2020-09-21T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2023-10-13T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T06:37:56","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/overview\/","title":{"rendered":"About CAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"content-block image-right page-intro-block\">\n\t\t<div class=\"image-container page-intro-image\">\n\t\t<!--<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/wp-content\/themes\/can-theme-2024\/assets\/images\/placeholder\/not-drowning-fighting.jpg\" alt=\"not-drowning-fighting\" width=\"586\" height=\"392\" \/>-->\n\t\t\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/12301671_1189072584443464_5793777723589773895_n-768x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"text-container lead-paragraph\">\n\t\t<p>Climate Action Network (CAN) is the world\u2019s largest climate network made up of more than 1,900 civil society organisations in over 130 countries, together fighting the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"text-container other-paragraphs\">\n\t\t<p><p>Since its inception in the 1980s, CAN has grown into a strong, member-driven network with a membership spanning all six continents in over 130 countries.<\/p>\n<p>With its diversity of membership and long-standing experience in steering the climate movement, CAN continues to seek alignment and build bridges with partners and stakeholders across the climate movement and beyond to pressure governments to take bold and urgent climate action to end the era of fossil fuels and address the needs of the most vulnerable people impacted by the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Climate Action Network International functions as the Secretariat of the network and is independent legally and financially from any members and CAN nodes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<section class=\"featureblock\"><div class=\"columns-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='feature-1 third large column card' style='background-image: url(https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/members-768x512.jpg)'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='overlay'><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/overview\/members\/' class='fb-text-wrap'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Members<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='feature-2 third large column card' style='background-image: url(https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/people-768x513.jpg)'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='overlay'><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/overview\/governance\/people\/' class='fb-text-wrap'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>People<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='feature-3 third large column card' style='background-image: url(https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Governance-768x512.jpg)'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='overlay'><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/overview\/governance\/' class='fb-text-wrap'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Governance<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t\t<!--\n\t\t<section class=\"featureblock\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"columns-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"feature-1 third large column card\" style=\"background-image: url()\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"overlay\" href=\"\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<h2><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"feature-2 third large column card\" style=\"background-image: url()\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"overlay\" href=\"\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<h2><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"feature-3 third large column card\" style=\"background-image: url()\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"overlay\" href=\"\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<h2><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t-->\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color\">Our Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"content-block image-right image-large\">\n\t<div class=\"two-cols\">\n\t\t<div class=\"image-container\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/4058016979_8d2831cf0e_5k-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"Mountains solar panel\" width=\"586\" height=\"392\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"text-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"other-paragraphs\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>2025 vision<\/strong>: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 2025, the rising demands of people around the world force significant action by those contributing the most to global warming. We have successfully implemented radical and sustainable solutions across sectors, cities and communities that are in line with a participatory and inclusive just transition and that centres around the needs of the most vulnerable, the most marginalised and that protects nature.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"content-block image-left image-large\">\n\t<div class=\"two-cols\">\n\t\t<div class=\"image-container\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/energy-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"392\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"text-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"other-paragraphs\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>2030 vision:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the next decade we have harnessed the power of the people to keep global warming to 1.5\u00baC and have brought about the transformational change in our societies and economies that ensures equity and justice; poverty eradication; sustainable livelihoods; and the protection of the rights of nature.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our history<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"content-block simple-content-block\" id=\"simple-content-block-block_e3badfd90ba995c1050fb31a490519ec\">\n\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"other-paragraphs\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>1988\u20131994: Founding of CAN and first regional and national networks<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1989, organisations from primarily Europe and the US agreed to establish amongst themselves a loose but official network for the coordination of their activities around the climate change negotiations and domestic climate action. This was done in between the 1988 World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere and the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the 1990 decision by the United Nations General Assembly to develop a negotiating committee to draft a climate change convention. At the time, CAN consisted of one regional group\u2014Climate Network Europe\u2014and two country groups\u2014 US Climate Action Network (USCAN) and Climate Action Network UK. An unincorporated Climate Action Network Canada came shortly thereafter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 1993, in between the 1992 opening for signature of the UNFCCC and its coming into force in 1994, CAN enjoyed formal and informal membership from several dozen organisations organised into seven regional networks and had put out for itself a set of general but lofty goals:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to coordinate information exchange on international, regional and national climate policies and issues, both between CAN groups and other interested institutions;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to formulate policy options and position papers on climate-related issues; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to undertake further collaborative action to promote effective non-governmental organization involvement in efforts to avert the threat of global warming.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>1995-2001: The Beginning of COP and Kyoto Protocol\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1995, the first UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) opened in Berlin, by which point CAN membership swelled to nearly 150 groups. In a prelude to what would later become the CAN Strategy Session held before each negotiation session, members met immediately before the COP to develop \u201cGoals for Berlin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 1990s, ECO\u00a0 began to be distributed via newsgroups and the internet, as a supplement to the issues that were printed at the negotiations and sent to major media outlets. In 1998, CAN launched the first version of its website with USCAN as the first node to operate its own separate site the same year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 1999 negotiations held in Bonn saw the first <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FossilOfTheDay\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fossil of the Day awards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which was originally organized by the German NGO Forum but would later become one of CAN\u2019s signature activities alongside ECO. Voting for the awards awards are held at CAN\u2019s daily coordination meeting, and the Fossil of the Day were given to the three countries or country blocs that had done the most to stall progress in the negotiations that day, with a \u201cceremony\u201d media event held at the close of the day\u2019s negotiations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>2016-Present: Post-Paris Agreement\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2019, CAN came under a new leadership when the board appointed Tasneem Essop as its new Executive Director. Essop previously served as a global climate policy and strategy leader for environmental NGO WWF International. Most recently, she was the founding director of an NGO in South Africa, focusing on energy democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Our Vision Our history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About CAN - Climate Action Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/overview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About CAN - Climate Action Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Overview Our Vision Our history\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/overview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Climate Action Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-10-13T06:37:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/overview\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/overview\/\",\"name\":\"About CAN - 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