The threats of climate change are most visible at the frontlines, and so are the most essential solutions.

Every being living close to the crisis carries knowledge, agency and ideas that the rest of the world has not yet learned to listen to. The Climate and Care Collective exists to change that.

Vision

We are here to cultivate how communities and ecosystems at the frontiers of the climate crisis lead ecological and socio-economic innovation rooted in care and co-creation.

Mission

We center those at the frontiers of the climate crisis, create spaces where frontline communities can form connections with diverse stakeholders in the climate conversation, and support the innovations that emerge when people who are different share the same space on equal terms.

Care as an Ethos

When we bring care to the work of addressing the climate crisis, the communities most impacted don’t remain silent participants in finding solutions. They become its most essential authors, and the loudest voices in the room. That’s why care is not incidental to our approach. It is foundational – making it possible for everyone to come together to co-create and innovate on equal terms.

Frontline Labs

Like mangroves that occupy the liminal space between land and sea, our Frontline Labs convene at the frontiers of the climate crisis.

Here, frontline communities are joined by activists, artists, academics, local leaders and policymakers to work with lived knowledge, co-creating climate innovations that can only grow at the confluence of unlike worlds.
What makes this confluence and co-creation possible? We believe it’s the conditions of care we create: support that allows communities to show up alongside their lived realities, trust that shifts power, and space that holds local concerns, disparate voices, and ageless wisdom.

Knowledge Commons

Like tidal waters carrying memories between land and sea, our Knowledge Commons holds what emerges at the frontlines and keeps it in circulation.

From resources and research to policy, the fruits from the frontlines are not extracted or enclosed, but shared, so it may travel across contexts, take new forms, and nourish other struggles.
As always, the generation of these commons depends on practices of care: stewardship that protects context and authorship, conditions that ensure access without appropriation, and frameworks that allow knowledge to move without losing its roots.

Weaving Narratives

Like roots that hold together what might otherwise drift apart, our participants’ reflections are woven together as narratives that honour different lived experiences and ways of knowing and recognise the complexity, contradiction, and care that emerge at the thresholds of climate change.

But this weaving does not happen on its own. It requires listening that holds space for silence and ambiguity, care that resists simplification, and responsibility that carries stories forward without detaching them from the lives they come from.

The People

Neha Saigal

Neha Saigal has worked for over 18 years at the intersection of climate, gender, and community, designing programmes that place women and frontline communities at the centre of climate-compatible development. She has led gender and climate work at Asar, built nutrition and governance portfolios at IPE Global and Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives, and campaigned for sustainable agriculture and ocean conservation at Greenpeace in New Zealand and India.

At Climate & Care Collective, she probes for answers to the question that has shaped her entire career: What becomes possible when the people closest to the crisis are finally trusted to lead the response?

Rina D’souza

An Organisational Development expert, Rina D’Souza has spent over 18 years bringing her research and project management skills to organisations and leaders in the education, social, and ecological impact sectors. She has managed people and culture at Stir Education, driven research at Snehadhara Foundation and Phicus Social Solutions, handled volunteer training and management at Greenpeace, and taught young minds at Center For Learning, Bengaluru.

With her work at Climate & Care Collective, she returns to her roots, helping individuals and communities respond to climate change and its impact on their lives with confidence and purpose.

What emerges at the frontier can only take root there.

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