Climate Cardinals x Spotlight

Written By courtney stone

ABOUT

Climate Cardinals is an international youth-led nonprofit working to make the climate movement more accessible to those who don’t speak English. We aim to educate and empower a diverse coalition of people to tackle the climate crisis. We have over 13,000 volunteers who are translating and sourcing climate information into over 100 different languages with partners like the United Nations. This international movement has reached millions of people across 40+ countries. We have leveraged the power of Artificial Intelligence to translate over two million words of climate information to date in partnership with Google.

TEAMING UP

Spotlight and Climate Cardinals teamed up for an Advocacy Workshop. The virtual event offered an informative workshop on how to take action, find intentional space for voluntarism, and setup a NANO-NONPROFIT to take control in the struggle for climate action. You, too, can set up your own nano-nonprofit to help out Climate Cardinals and other environmental organizations to take climate action at Spotlight.

Event Date: March 28, 2024 (Virtual)

ADVOCACY TOOLKIT

Together, our organizations have co-authored a toolkit to help advocates get involved. Download the toolkit here.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CLIMATE CARDINALS

Climate Cardinals was first envisioned by Sophia Kianni, who realized the need for climate translation while on a trip to Iran in middle school. Sophia was shocked when she saw that the pollution in Iran was so bad she couldn’t see the stars at night. The more she read online about the climate in the Middle East, the more alarmed she became. The Middle East is currently facing a climate crisis with temperatures in the region rising more than twice the global average. Sophia brought up these concerns to her relatives but was shocked when they informed her that they knew almost nothing about climate change. 

After reading Sophia’s translations, her relatives have become supportive of Iranian environmental defenders and are eager to learn more about climate solutions.

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