DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY
Communities Climate Action Network
To be EFFECTIVE we need to get COLLECTIVE.
#DG-CCAN
A network planned, built & managed by YOU for our Future Ready Communities.
Inviting all DG community groups to take part in developing a new Communities Climate Action Network spanning the length and breadth of our massive county.
WHAT IS DG-CCAN ?
Following COP26, the Scottish Government funded SCCAN to create a transformational, nationwide framework of Climate Action Networks. This includes a new Dumfries & Galloway Communities Climate Action Network (DG-CCAN).
Supported by SCCAN, DG-CCAN could have the option to become a community-led, core-funded Climate Action Hub.
As DG-CCAN evolves it could facilitate specialist support to develop your ideas, projects and organisation; training sessions, events, funding links, resources and tool kits; as well as opportunities to share skills, best practices and insights between network members.
CREATING A HUB
Supporting communities is at the very heart of the DG-CCAN vision.
With a vibrant network in place, we can apply for government recognition and core funding as a Climate Action Hub for Dumfries & Galloway.
How this Hub is shaped and what it will do is for the network’s members to decide.
Through DG-CCAN we can organise a series of local events to shape this proposal and ensure that the community-led Climate Hub truly represents all of Dumfries & Galloway … from the grassroots up.
“We are, after all, the greatest problem solvers to have ever existed on Earth. If working apart, we are a force powerful enough to destabilize our planet. Surely working together, we are powerful enough to save it.”
– David Attenborough at COP26 –
- That Vital Spark
Reflections of a first time visit to Stranraer It’s a glorious, if chilly day, and there’s a little green fishing boat bobbing in the gentle waves of Stranraer… - Upper Eskdale Development Group providing Warm Hub
Kudos to UEDG. Its plan to provide a community warm hub prevailed despite boiler issues in -14’C conditions. The community supported the hub as they all huddled around… - DG-CCAN coordinator Certified Carbon Literate
After taking the excellent course provided by parent organisation Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN), DG-CAN’s coordinator proudly received this important accreditation. - Amber Warning for Rain across D&G
Heavy rainfall forecasts prompted a Met Office Amber Warning for DG. DGWGO kept residents aware of flooded areas and neighbours helped each other. Yet more reasons for a…