Working groups have been carried out with adults to recover low-energy practices. All this knowledge extracted from the project will allow the articulation of community adaptation and resilience strategies to climate change.

The City Council of Santiago de Compostela was a beneficiary in the 2017 Call for Grants for the implementation of projects in the field of adaptation to climate change with the project “DECARBONIZA! WHICH IS NO SMALL THING…” a project of adaptation to climate change from environmental education in facilities and programs of sociocultural and leisure activities”. Its purpose has been to integrate climate change adaptation into the municipal socio-cultural and community leisure sectors.

The socio-cultural activities organised by the municipalities reach a very important part of the population that is traditionally far from climate change adaptation strategies. To alleviate this gap, for more than five months, even groups of adults in Santiago and San Sebastián/Donostia, participated in the project “Decarbonize! Que non é pouco… / KarbonEZtatu”.

Through several work sessions, an educational methodology was put into practice to bring the climate problem closer to adult audiences. The groups involved made progress in the knowledge of the causes and consequences of climate change and the search for solutions in a community key.

Taking as a starting point a shared memory of low consumption and low emissions – their memories of childhood and youth, fundamentally – the more than 100 people involved committed to organizing various activities – workshops on natural cosmetics, bread making, medicinal plants, etc., where climate change and everyday life are linked, reaching their immediate community to recover low-energy practices in a collective key.

The result, a new batch of climate activists with extremely valuable life histories and expertise in articulating community adaptation and resilience strategies to climate change.