Creating Climate Justice Communities: A toolkit on the impacts of climate change in Irish Communities

Date of Publication: September 2025

This toolkit is for community workers, climate coaches, conversational hosts and facilitators. This toolkit will help to introduce you to the impacts of the climate crisis on the day-to-day lives of communities, making climate change a more real and immediate issue, along with the solutions to recognise and respond to these impacts. You will learn some key definitions that relate to climate change, and how climate change is connected to areas of day-to-day life for every community. Following these sections are suggested prompts to engage communities in thinking about the impacts of the climate crisis on their lives, and what actions they can take to address them. The climate crisis, and how the Government plans to address it, already have impacts on our day-to-day lives – the homes we live in, the transport we use, the food we eat and our health. It is not always obvious, however, how climate change is influencing or causing these impacts. These impacts will also be more pronounced for communities that are already marginalised or disadvantaged, which makes it more important for those communities and workers engaged with them to be aware of these impacts in order to co-create community-owned responses. You don’t have to be an expert on climate change and climate justice to host and start these conversations within your community. This toolkit aims to give you some knowledge and confidence on these topics so that you feel more comfortable in beginning these conversations, allowing you to bring communities along with you in a collective journey towards climate justice.