Roundtable of Climate Action Empowerment (ACE)

The Centre of Excellence Just Fossil Fuel Transition promotes a permanent roundtable based on six elements: education, training, public awareness, public access to information, and public participation.
The Climate Empowerment approach is of seminal importance to promote international cooperation, foster dialogue, share practices and experiences, coordinate climate action and policies, strength the EU’s role as a reference for establishing a fair socio-economic and energy transition, based on the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty’s pillars.

The roundtable supports international cooperation and coordination to strengthen the synergies in order to share experience, exchange ideas, practices and lessons to generate a coherency in the climate policies, tools and pledges. Following the Art.12 of the Paris Agreement, this roundtable aims to create a dynamic, collaborative space for diverse territorial actors to address pressing climate justice issues facilitating knowledge exchange and cross-sector and multiscale partnerships among academics, policymakers, and grassroots organizations. The goal is to maintain a network of experts and advocates on dialogue and actions driving meaningful change in climate justice policies and practices, leveraging digital platforms to overcome geographical barriers and ensure global participation.

The ACE Roundtable is a multicultural and multicontinental space to ensure a wide points of view during the different discussions and to provide the broadest exchange possible. The decision-making is primarily consensus-based, with clear voting procedures when needed and it can produce various outputs, including policy briefs, research reports, and action plans. All the operations referring to Human right based approach (HRBA) to climate actions for empowerment. The ACE roundtable is also a space of reflection on the plurality and ambiguity of ACE approaches, and a place to enforce the empowerment and civil society protagonism in promoting climate justice.