Integrating climate action with a holistic approach to address biodiversity loss, pollution and other environmental challenges; integrating care for the environment and care for people, rejecting an anthropocentric vision that supports destructive consumption habits; and integrating the demands of the most vulnerable within institutional and leadership frameworks, ensuring that the voices of those affected by climate change are at the centre of the global debate. 

These are the key points that the UISG brought to COP28, the UN Climate Change Conference, which concluded in Dubai on 13 December.

UISG networks around the world are committed to addressing environmental challenges through action and advocacy, at the forefront of a movement to shape global conversations on development issues around the needs of local communities.

For the coming 2024, UISG's priority will be to deploy our resources as concretely as possible, given the urgency of the challenges we face. Our focus will be on strategic participation in global advocacy spaces, on strengthening environmental networks at the national level, and on targeted intervention in areas of special interest.