from the WHAT NEXT FOR THE UN? Building a More Secure World festival
As individuals, we should
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Share solutions to problems with our local communities (such as Zimbabwe friendship benches to address depression) and voice our priorities to decision-makers;
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Know our (and others’) human rights - such as for healthcare - and how to lobby for them with decision makers;
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Join local, national or global movements to help fight injustices (such as in the food system);
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Remember the potentially powerful role of Creativity in learning about needs and creating change;
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Decide what it is important to us to demand (such as a framework for digital regulation) and join with others to achieve it, holding the powerful to account;
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Whenever involved in negotiations, seek to ensure clear understanding of each other’s positions;
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Lobby our representatives (like MPs and Ministers) to commit to ambitious international actions (such as: supporting Countdown to Midnight to ensure more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions ahead of the Glasgow Climate COP in 2021; and engaging in the implementation of frameworks such as GDPR in the EU that will protect users);
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Support ethical and sustainable practice by businesses (such as boycotting fast fashion);
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Learn to cook with plant-based whole foods, utilise food ‘waste’, and eat seasonally;
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Adopt Personal Carbon Budgets – whereby we each individually ration our carbon emissions;
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Support and Invest in local businesses.