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| Founded | 2020[1] |
|---|---|
| Founder | Sophia Kianni |
| Type | 501(c)(3) non-profit |
| Focus | Climate justice |
| Method | Translation and education |
President | Sophia Kianni[2] |
Vice President | Hikaru Hayakawa[3] |
Volunteers | 10,000 |
| Website | www.climatecardinals.org |
Climate Cardinals is an international non-profit organization focused on environmental accessibility. The organization uses a volunteer base to translate climate information into various languages.[4][5][6] As of 2023, the organization has attracted 10,000 volunteers in 80 countries, and has translated over 1.5 million words of climate information into 100 languages.[7][8][9][10][11]
History[edit]
Created in 2020, the organization began after its founder Sophia Kianni visited family in Iran and started to translate climate information when she realized her relatives lacked sufficient information to understand the pollution in Tehran. She later established Climate Cardinals with a group of high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic.[12]
The Climate Cardinals website was launched over Memorial Day weekend in 2020. A TikTok post about the organization, published concurrently by Kianni's friend, gained widespread attention, accumulating over 100,000 views.[13]
In 2021, Climate Cardinals collaborated with UNICEF to translate the Children's Climate Risk Index into the Hausa, Portuguese, Somali, Swahili, and Yoruba languages.[14][15] In the same year, Climate Cardinals partnered with the Italian government to translate the Youth4Climate Manifesto into the 6 UN languages for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[16]
Climate Cardinals supports individual chapters of the organization in high schools and universities.[17]
In 2023, Climate Cardinals established a partnership with Yale Climate Connections, contributing translations of their climate articles into Spanish.[18][19]
Climate Cardinals is a public E-team of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab.[20]
In 2024, Climate Cardinals became one of the first youth-led non-profits to receive funding from Google.org. The philanthropic arm of Google donated $400,000 to the organization.[21]
Google Cloud Partnership[edit]
In 2023, Climate Cardinals formed a partnership with Google Cloud. Through this collaboration, Google Cloud employees granted Climate Cardinals access to their AI-powered Translation Hub, enabling the organization to enhance its translation capacity and generate 800,000 words within three months..[22][23][24]
Awards[edit]
In 2020, Climate Cardinals received recognition as a finalist for the On a Shoestring and Accessibility categories at the 5th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards hosted by Shorty Awards.[25]
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- ^ "Team." Climate Cardinals. Retrieved 23-12-30.
- ^ "Team." Climate Cardinals. Retrieved 23-12-30.
- ^ "About." Climate Cardinals. Accessed 30 December 2023.
- ^ Reser, Allison. "36 Organizations Helping Solve the Climate Crisis." foodtank.
- ^ "Rising Voices: Discover 6 Youth-Led Movements Taking on Climate Change.". No Kill Magazine.
- ^ Gunn, Megan. "Sophia Kianni Is Spreading the Word on Climate Change, 100 Ways". Newsweek.
- ^ Woolsey, Angela. "McLean native among youths chosen to help guide federal environmental policies." Fairfax County Local News.
- ^ "This activist is tacking an unlikely barrier to climate action: language." World Economic Forum.
- ^ "Volunteers translate climate research into more than 100 languages." Yale Climate Connections.
- ^ Kart, Jeff. "Climate Cardinals Website Enlists Students To Translate Climate Change Information, Earn Community Service Hours". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
- ^ McPherson, Delaney. "Sophia Kianni Has Advice for Budding Climate Activists." National Wildlife Federation.
- ^ Kart, Jeff. "Climate Cardinals Website Enlists Students To Translate Climate Change Information, Earn Community Service Hours". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
- ^ "Children in four South Asian countries at 'extremely high risk' of the impacts of the climate crisis - UNICEF". www.unicef.org. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
- ^ "The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis | UNICEF". www.unicef.org. 2021-08-20. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
- ^ "Clima: ecco lo "Youth4Climate Manifesto" | Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica". www.mase.gov.it. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
- ^ "Climate Cardinals". UNESCO. 26 January 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ "Harnessing AI to translate climate knowledge for all". Google Cloud Blog. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
- ^ "Climate Cardinals, Author at Yale Climate Connections". Yale Climate Connections. 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
- ^ "Climate Cardinals | UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab". en.unesco.org. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
- ^ Kart, Jeff. "Climate Cardinals Plans To Double Its Science Translation Efforts With New Google Backing". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-04-26.
- ^ Turns, Anna. "‘The change in pace is crazy’: AI boosts climate information translation drive." The Guardian.
- ^ Horn-Muller, Ayurella. "AI is shattering climate language barriers." Axios.
- ^ Kianni, Sophia and Hayakawa, Hikaru. "Climate Cardinals: Bridging the climate information gap with AI-powered translations." Google Cloud.
- ^ "Climate Cardinals - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com. Retrieved 2024-01-04.