📘 Read the SDG 13 Policy Brief: Cooperative Contributions to Climate Action
🔗 www.copac.coop/iyc-2025-ser...

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But scaling cooperative climate solutions needs action:

• Integrate coops into national climate strategies
• Expand climate finance access
• Invest in skills, data & innovation
• Strengthen enabling legal frameworks
• Build multi-stakeholder partnerships

From Africa to Asia, Latin America to Europe, cooperatives help communities mitigate, adapt to, and recover from climate shocks—while ensuring a just transition that leaves no one behind.

Climate justice works best when communities have ownership and voice.

The new SDG 13 Policy Brief shows how cooperatives already deliver climate action across sectors, including:
• Climate-resilient agriculture & forestry
• Community-owned renewable energy
• Circular economy & recycling coops
• Coopclimate finance & insurance

Climate action can’t succeed without people at the centre.

That’s where cooperatives come in.

As democratic, locally rooted enterprises, cooperatives connect global climate goals with local action, ensuring climate solutions strengthen livelihoods while protecting ecosystems. 🌱

#CooperativesBuildABetterWorld

📘 Download the SDG1 Policy Brief:
EN: copac.coop/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1-ENG-poverty.pdf

ES: copac.coop/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1-SP-poverty.pdf

FR: copac.coop/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1-FR-poverty.pdf

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3️⃣ Expand co-op access to finance & markets
4️⃣ Invest in cooperative education & capacity
5️⃣ Build cross-sector partnerships

#CoopsYear

But scaling this impact requires action.

To unlock the full potential of cooperatives in ending poverty, governments & partners must:

1️⃣ Integrate co-ops into poverty-reduction strategies
2️⃣ Strengthen legal & institutional environments

🇰🇪 Women-led dairy co-ops in Kenya
🇬🇭 Cocoa farmers gaining fair income in Ghana
🇧🇷 Waste pickers formalised & protected in Brazil
🇳🇵 Climate-resilient forest co-ops in Nepal
🇲🇽 Indigenous coffee producers in Mexico
🇲🇿 Rural income growth in Mozambique
🇱🇦 Stronger coffee co-ops in Laos

The latest COPAC–ICA Policy Brief on SDG 1 highlights real examples of co-ops reducing poverty worldwide, including:

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This is where cooperatives make a transformative difference.

As democratic, people-centred enterprises, co-ops:
✔️ Stabilise incomes
✔️ Expand access to finance, housing, health & care
✔️ Strengthen community resilience
✔️ Reduce multidimensional poverty
#CooperativesBuildABetterWorld

Access to work is no longer a guaranteed way out.

🌍 240M workers still live below the poverty line
🌐 3.8B people have no social protection
Millions remain one shock away from crisis.
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