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CCC Lab Session - Cities Mission Conference - 25 June 2024

Deep dive into the CCC drafting and submission process, with facilitated breakout sessions on the Commitments, Action plan and Investment plan by thematic area.

Systems innovation
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TACSI - The Australian Centre for Social Innovation

TACSI strives to enhance social and economic well-being through their approach to accelerate social innovations. The organization has conducted experiments in the field of human-centered innovation, driven by the belief that individuals are the best experts on their own lives. By collaborating with those affected by the challenges they aim to address, TACSI creates effective innovations. They have been building scaling programs that seek to improve outcomes for people in relevant and dynamic ...

Social innovation
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Cool Roofs / Cool Facades and Retroreflective Materials

To decrease the heat gains of buildings, reflective or cool materials can be applied on the roof or the facades of buildings (1-3). Reflective materials are characterized by high solar reflectance (SR) combined with a high thermal emittance value (4).     Numerous reflective white or light-colored materials are currently commercially available for buildings presenting solar reflectance values ranging from 0.4 to 0.9, and emissivity values close to 0.9. Reflective ...

Energy
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System Change: A Guidebook for Adopting Portfolio Approaches

This UNDP guidebook presents an approach to help a broad range of development practitioners prepare for, engage in, and manage systems transformation using a portfolio approach in complex development spaces. We developed this guidebook as a way to formalize our process and learnings to date, and leverage these to support others as they initially contemplate—and eventually work towards implementation of a portfolio-based approach for addressing complex development challenges in their own ...

Awareness raisingCircular economy+28
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Citizens Asset Program

Citizens Asset is the transfer of public assets’ use and management to non-profit collectives. Based on the logic that public things (municipal property) can become communal (citizen patrimony) through shared management. This is a reinvention of public properties which also provides tools and training to the communities responsible for the management. Citizen assets can be premises, buildings, facilities or public spaces.

Citizen participationGovernance and policy+0
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Climate Transition Map Series | Understanding the System Webinar | 29 September ...

Presentation displayed during the 'Understanding the System' webinar that was organised on 29 September 2022 by NetZeroCities as part of the Climate Transition Map Webinar Series. The recording is available here. This webinar is about developing a holistic understanding of the current state of affairs, as well as developing future scenarios. -Delivering a GHG Emissions Inventory -Analysing action gaps and capital needs -Mapping the system and resource flows and identifying key ...

Climate resilience