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Climate Outreach and Information Network
Our Vision
Through education and innovative approaches to learning we aim to achieve permanent reductions in household greenhouse gas emissions; reducing them to levels which can be sustained, and which result in no further degradation of ecological systems and human livelihood.
Our Mission
COIN works directly with individuals and households. Our focus is action-centred. We educate and inform people on the impacts and challenges of climate change, and demonstrate the practical steps that people can take to reduce these impacts.
We identify both the opportunities that enable people to reduce their emissions and the many obstacles that hold people back. We devise innovative and effective ways of communication that encourage people to share this experience.
We recognise that individuals cannot make the required changes on their own. We aim to create a powerful and vocal community of people working together to move technology, government and business forward to reduce emissions and make real and lasting changes to the way we live.
All our projects will demonstrate that our vision of stabilising greenhouse gas emissions is practically attainable. COIN believes that the solutions are already here. With small changes in the way we live and the application of simple technologies we can all reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases and build a clean, just and sustainable low carbon future.
What Makes COIN Unique?
COIN is the only British charity which places personal emissions reduction at the centre of its work.
COIN's approach brings together many different aspects of carbon reduction. Other agencies tend to work on single issues – energy conservation, energy saving, transportation, food etc – missing out how they all link together at the household level.
COIN believes that "person-centred" approaches offer the best chance for tackling climate change. Other agencies tend to think of policy and technical solutions first without connecting with the people required to make the change.
COIN's approach is highly collaborative, whenever possible working in partnership with other organisations, councils and progressive companies. No other organisation has COIN's commitment to supporting new organisations and initiatives engaging the public on climate change.
