Partos Innovation Festival – NGO-activist collaboration for climate justice

At the Climate March in Amsterdam in November 2021, activists and NGOs jointly mobilized 40.000 people for climate justice. Climate activists and NGOs can thus achieve great results by working together. Although the coming years will offer plenty of opportunities for continuing collaboration, there will undoubtedly be obstacles as well. For instance, NGOs are often accountable to (governmental) donors, limiting their capacity to cooperate with more disruptive activists.

In this participatory workshop, organized by Partos and WWF and with contributions from climate activists and NGOs, we will explore obstacles to and opportunities for activist-NGO collaboration for climate justice. We will discuss each other’s qualities and challenges and formulate the next steps for realizing climate justice.