ACTION FOR CLIMATE EMPOWERMENT
Participation isn’t peripheral to climate action.
Participation isn’t peripheral to climate action.
Article 12 of the Paris Agreement recognises climate change education, training, public awareness, public participation and public access to information as important to enhancing action under the Agreement. Under the UNFCCC, this work is known as Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE).
Article 12 of the Paris Agreement recognises climate change education, training, public awareness, public participation and public access to information as important to enhancing action under the Agreement. Under the UNFCCC, this work is known as Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE).
Paris Agreement · Article 12 · UNFCCC Action for Climate Empowerment
SMUDGE GOVERNMENT
A place is more than one organisation.
Environmental activity happens across the people, schools, communities, businesses and organisations that share it.
Environmental activity happens across the people, schools, communities, businesses and organisations that share it.
Smudge Earth brings those different signals into a clearer picture of place.
Smudge Earth brings those different signals into a clearer picture of place.
YOUNG PEOPLE
YOUNG PEOPLE
ADULTS & COMMUNITIES
ADULTS & COMMUNITIES
BUSINESS
BUSINESS
OTHER VISIBLE ACTIVITY
OTHER VISIBLE ACTIVITY
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PLACE
PLACE
Different contributors. Different activity. One place.
Different contributors. Different activity. One place.
The question is: what can we actually see?
The question is: what can we actually see?
PLACE INTELLIGENCE
PLACE INTELLIGENCE
VISIBLE ACTIVITY
What the current place picture can show.
KNOWN GAPS
Where the picture is incomplete or still emerging.
CONFIDENCE
How the evidence behind the view should be read.
What colour is your place?
GSI turns visible environmental activity and participation across a place into a clearer shared picture.
GSI turns visible environmental activity and participation across a place into a clearer shared picture.
GSI. PLACE VIEW
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
What is happening.
What is happening.
PARTICIPATION
PARTICIPATION
Who is contributing collectively.
Who is contributing collectively.
EVIDENCE
EVIDENCE
What can be supported.
What can be supported.
VISIBILITY
VISIBILITY
What can currently be seen.
What can currently be seen.
GSI doesn’t pretend the whole picture is known.
GSI doesn’t pretend the whole picture is known.
What is visible matters. What remains unknown matters too.
What is visible matters. What remains unknown matters too.
One place can see itself. Many places can begin to see each other.
One place can see itself. Many places can begin to see each other.
What happens when places become visible together?
A community can see its place. A region can see a wider picture. And those pictures can begin to connect.
A community can see its place. A region can see a wider picture. And those pictures can begin to connect.
GLOBAL VIEW
COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY
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CITY
CITY
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REGION
REGION
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STATE
STATE
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COUNTRY
COUNTRY
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WORLD
WORLD
Not a leaderboard of places.
Not a leaderboard of places.
A way to see environmental participation across place.
A way to see environmental participation across place.
And a way for one place to learn from another.
And a way for one place to learn from another.
VISIBLE
VISIBLE
Activity and participation currently visible through Smudge Earth.
Activity and participation currently visible through Smudge Earth.
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
What is not currently visible remains unknown.
What is not currently visible remains unknown.
No visible activity is not the same as no activity.
No visible activity is not the same as no activity.
One Earth. Billions of marks.
One Earth. Billions of marks.
What colour is yours?
What colour is yours?