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​This is the second in a series of discussion papers exploring where the climate movement might focus its energy and resources. Each paper examines a different frontier for climate organising, developed in collaboration with thinkers and strategists from across the movement. The first paper, co-authored with Maciej Muskat from Greenpeace International, examined the potential of activism around extreme weather events. This paper, co-authored by Rupert Read, Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project, and Social Change Lab's Cathy Rogers, asks whether climate adaptation - long neglected by the movement - might in fact be a powerful tool for building the broad-based, politically potent constituency that campaigners have long sought.

The question this paper asks is not whether Britain needs to adapt - that much is unavoidable. It's whether the climate movement is missing something by treating adaptation as a secondary concern. The paper argues it is, and that strategic, community-led adaptation could be the movement's most powerful untapped tool.

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