SAFER
Strategic Adaptation for Emergency Resilience
Join the campaign for community-led action in a time of global crises
Here in the UK, climate isn’t the only global crisis whose impacts threaten homes, livelihoods and vital services.
We need a serious national plan for local resilience: helping local communities prepare, adapt, and protect what matters most.
Are we giving up on preventing climate breakdown?
SAFER is a campaign for locally-led adaptation: the work of looking ahead, getting ready, and taking care of each other as our world changes.
The story so far
Climate breakdown is no longer tomorrow’s problem. It’s happening here, today: bound up with a growing wave of crises that will transform life as we know it. From flooded homes and economic shocks to food and energy shortages, job uncertainty and disrupted healthcare, we’re facing upheaval like we’ve never seen before.
The Government’s existing plans are nowhere near enough to protect our communities and businesses from the threats that are coming. And too often, they rely on quick fixes that can cause even worse harm to nature.
It’s not enough to react to emergencies after they happen: we need proactive, long-term strategies based on the threats facing our local areas. We need to adapt our homes and local areas in ways that help restore nature and support the fight against global overheating.
And we need to keep pouring love and care into our communities, so that when things get hard, we can depend on each other. Making resilience part of our culture, so no one faces an uncertain future alone.
As the world falls deeper into crisis, governments will be forced to act. The choices we make will shape our society for years to come. We have the power to steer adaptation now, if we act together.
Real resilience grows from the inside out. Communities built on trust, connection and shared purpose can adapt to all kinds of challenges, and recover more quickly.
Get Involved
SAFER is for you. Whether you’re a community leader, business person, policy maker, or simply someone who wants a safer future for their loved ones, there are actions you can take right now – with much more still to come.
Strategic Adaptation for Emergency Resilience Report
We Need to Talk About Adaptation Report
Where it's already happening
Introducing some inspiring initiatives getting local adaptation done…
HEART: Humans Enabling and Adapting for Resilience Together
ZERO Carbon Guilford
Islington Climate Centre
Blackdown Hills Transition Group
Transition Town Projects
Scottish Communities Climate Action Network
Communities Prepared
Friendly Farming Network
Sustain
Community Supported Agriculture
Coming soon
The SAFER Talk: an initiative that brings a powerful, tailored community gathering, professionally facilitated, to your location or place of work. A space to allow groups in a place to face and workshop emerging threats together, find courage and meaning in uncertainty, and move from overwhelm to agency and action.
SAFER Haven: an ongoing programme of work to help convene, connect and grow the adaptation field.
Important new research on adaptation in the media.
Sister campaigns within the Climate Majority Project