Climate Reframe was launched in 2020 as a list of 100 UK-based environmental and climate justice activists, experts and advocates from racialised minority backgrounds. The lack of diversity, fair representation and equal access to resources in the climate and environmental movement hamper climate action. To help redress this imbalance, Climate Reframe seeks to uplift, empower and support the voices on the frontlines of the climate crisis and climate solutions
The list was intended to help make it easier for the media and those working in the climate and environment movement to find climate experts from diverse backgrounds. Since launch, many Reframers have benefitted from more local, national and international media exposure and Reframe itself has provided media training opportunities and support for its members.
The idea of the Reframe list is simple and it has worked. And this is important in dismantling bias and institutional racism that results in a climate movement that is skewed and imbalanced along media and funding opportunities which continue to go mainly to male and white-led organisations.
Climate Reframe is about challenging and changing this reality but it is also about so much more. Climate Reframe is committed to supporting the climate and environment movement in its transformation towards greater justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI). Climate Reframe will do this by modelling a more intersectional, intergenerational and equity-focused movement.
We are building a network that is testing and piloting some of the best ideas for what an intersectional and solidarity-based society could look like. We do this by having regular events, and workshops and platforming our members who want safe spaces to take their visionary ideas forward.
We are here to champion and support the work of many of our racialised experts including facilitating their work in media, promoting their participation in COP-based events and national climate conferences, organising media training, hosting community gatherings, film screenings, learning spaces and much more. This is a networked space for climate justice work, advocacy, movement building, and allyship.