Black Climate Week
Communities Leading the Charge
At the NAACP, we know that Black communities have always led solutions to the climate crisis. Black Climate Week is being led by NAACP and The Solutions Project, and we are inviting hundreds of organizations, creators, elected officials join in this year. We aim to emphasize the collective momentum of thousands of stories that inspire ongoing justice-led climate action.
This year, we're centering cities with strong Black communities as definitive hubs of climate innovation and justice, while also emphasizing how Black communities are standing up to AI data centers that threaten their health and economic stability. Black communities aren't waiting for permission to protect themselves. The resistance to fight back originated in many Black communities to mobilize, organize, and strategize hyper-local actions to global next steps.
How to Get Involved
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Sign Up as an Organization or Individual
We are inviting hundreds of organizations and creators to join us this year to be a part of this movement. Black communities aren't just surviving climate change — they're solving it. Sign up to advocate for your community.
Sign Up as an Elected Official
We are centering cities with a strong Black community as the definitive hubs of climate innovation and justice. Elected officials have the opportunity to commit their entire city or state, or individually sign the pledge.
Standing Up to Environmental Exploitation
This year also confronts an emerging threat: the unchecked expansion of AI data centers in frontline communities. These massive facilities often demand extraordinary amounts of water and energy, driving up local utility costs, polluting nearby neighborhoods, and consuming resources that should serve people, not corporate profit. Learn more about the NAACP's fight to Stop Dirty Data.
Making Polluters Pay for Their Harm
When floods destroy homes, wildfires burn communities, or an AI data center arrives in a community, someone always pays. Climate-related disasters are happening more frequently and severely due to global warming, and global warming has gotten worse because of the overuse of fossil fuels. When a data center shows up and does not bring their own clean energy, will everyday Americans pay or corporations that cause the crisis pay while pocketing trillions. Creating an accountability structure is an important part of climate reparations and investing in communities who bear the harm.
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