Blueprint explained
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How can we to halt the worst excesses of material extractivism, consumption and pollution and the injustices of ecocide through a legitimate, decision-making process, in which a representative strata of stakeholders in society can engage? How can we ensure that the tenets of the Precautionary Principle – the imperative to ‘act now’, enshrined in the original UNFCCC principles, are applied? The Blueprint provides one such pragmatic approach.
The Blueprint is an evidence-based, synergistic climate-ecology-societal framework and protocol drafted in the style of a piece of potential legislation, in response to the existential threat posed to humanity, non-human species and ecosystems on land and in the oceans.
The Climate-Ecology Emergency Hub provides a platform to explain the ‘Blueprint’ in detail and to generate diverse arguments as to why such a concept would justify serious consideration as a practical tool were it adapted to be applied to a diversity of scenarios, such as in public institutions (schools, universities, civil service etc.), the private sector – i.e. businesses and in grassroots organisations.
What is key is that the Blueprint’s principles are endorsed and put into practice.
The Blueprint is a proposition that transcends all party politics and is holistic in capturing the synergy between nature restoration and protection and climate mitigation and adaptation, whilst applying social justice and exercising processes of progressive democracy, in the form of a citizens’ assembly. In other words, meaningful stakeholder engagement facilitated at all levels.
The Climate-Ecology Blueprint (‘Blueprint’) is adapted from the Climate and Nature(CAN) Bill. The latter was conceived by experts in the field of climate science, ecology, ecological economics and deliberative democracy, and drafted in the form of a UK Private Member’s Bill, which led to a UK national campaign to pass what was to become the Climate and Nature Bill – a proposed piece of UK legislation.
We hope that you will be inspired to initiate and enable change through the application, in some form, of the Blueprint principles and framework. There is potential for elements of the Blueprint to be utilised as a means of amending and strengthening existing environmental laws in a given country.
The Blueprint stands as a template for Postgrowth in civil society, the public and private sectors.
Here, below, titles are hyperlinked to provide and explanation of each Blueprint section.
The full Blueprint concept can be read here .
What are the objectives of the Blueprint?
The Blueprint has dual synergistic objectives: on one side of the coin, climate, along the continuum of mitigation-adaptation, and on the other, nature, along the continuum of conservation- restoration.
In this regard, climate mitigation aligns to UN internationally agreed national commitments that include: to substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to hold global temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and to periodically assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of this agreement and its long-term goals (UNFCCC Paris Agreement, 2015). Climate adaptation is considered under the definition : New elements and dimensions of adaptations under the Paris Agreement(Article 7).
On ecology (nature), it is to protect and restore Earth’s natural world and its biogeochemical cycles that maintain ecosystems and to sustainably manage Natural Capital equitably; therefore, halting and reversing biodiversity loss and biosphere degradation -both on land and sea- as part of the obligations made under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and its protocols, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (2022) and the commitments set out in the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature (2020).
The Blueprint objectives relate to restoring the perturbation of Earth’s Planetary Boundaries by equitable means, through democratic processes.
