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The 43 leading networks and organisations supporting community-led initiatives for climate change and sustainability that together make up ECOLISE, recommitted to collaborate with one another at the organisation’s recent annual general assembly in Luxembourg.

They reiterated their call on policy makers to recognise and support the vital role that grassroots organisations are playing in the transition to a healthy and sustainable zero-carbon society.

“The groundswell of citizen action – from community agriculture to community energy, natural building and sustainable mobility – must be supported by policy makers if we have any hope of achieving our international climate commitments,” said Robert Hall, president of ECOLISE.

Participants at the GA came from 18 European countries, as well as visitors from the USA, and were hosted by CELL, the Centre for Ecological Learning Luxembourg.