This initiative aims to mobilize groups of activists and environmental rights defenders who would lead grassroots climate groups in their communities, spread the message about the urgency of climate change and its effects on life of vulnerable people in the Kurdistan Region and link them to other initiatives in the rest of Iraq. Human and environmental rights defenders are known to be on the front-line of global and local efforts to halt widespread and disastrous human rights abuses and environmental destruction, at the intersection of human, environmental, and climate justice.

Through environmental and climate justice efforts, people would be confronting local environmental and public health problems by working collaboratively with their local government agencies and the responsible institutions and agencies in order to find appropriate and tangible solutions in the lights of the existing laws and regulations or otherwise, to work for amendment of specific articles of the existing laws and regulations in favor of the vulnerable communities. This initiative would endeavor to mobilize efforts of the climate defenders through mapping the most hazardous risks facing the communities, analyzing and reporting them to the government agencies in charge and work through awareness raising and advocacy to find possible proper solutions for them.