The overarching process of Activating an inclusive ecosystem for change is at the heart of the Climate Transition Map approach, and is intended to expand and gain more momentum during each iteration (or turn through the Map). Co-create the portfolio process with an inclusive activation of your local ecosystems is key to support and enable a strong Climate City Contract.
It’s important to create and coordinate a comprehensive portfolio of actions with a range of connected interventions across multiple levers of change. And It’s of great importance to encourage and enable an inclusive activation of your local ecosystems (in its plurality) in the co-creation of the portfolios process. This will greatly impact the likelihood of success and sustainability of those climate-neutral transition portfolios.
Resources:
Find relevant Citizens and Urban Stakeholder Engagement and Participation Case Studies and Methods to support the “Co-Create the Portfolio” process of the Climate Transition Map.
Case Studies:
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EmpowerMed The EmpowerMed project aims to address energy poverty in the Mediterranean region, by empowering affected communities, especially women, through engagement, support and policy recommendations.
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People’s Policy on Child Wellbeing The case was a collaborative and deliberative process in South Australia which trialled a citizen-led approach to policymaking. Instead of politicians designing policy and presenting it to the public for approval, this case turned that process on its head by supporting citizens to develop policy themselves.
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Landforce, Community wealth building Landforce is an organisation based in Pittsburgh, USA, that provides underserved community members training and employment in environmental work. It combines workforce development training with environmental stewardship employment.
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TransformTO: Multisolving in Toronto A climate action strategy to reduce Toronto’s greenhouse gas emission by 80% by 2050 with the collaboration of experts and people living in Toronto.
Methods:
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Citizens’ Assembly A citizens’ assembly is a participatory process where a randomly selected group of citizens learn about and deliberate upon a specific issue or policy, and collectively come up with recommendations for decisionmakers.
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Co-production Co-production is a collaborative approach to decision-making and service design where providers, users and all relevant stakeholders work together to reach a collective outcome. The approach is value-driven and built on the principle that those who are affected by a service are best placed to help design it. In practice, it means that service beneficiaries are not only consulted, but are part of the conception, steering and management of services.
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Futures Thinking Futures Thinking is a broad umbrella of approaches that support people to think about, cope with, and imagine what is likely to happen, and what could happen, in the future.
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People’s Policy People’s Policy is a method of citizen-led policy development, designed to generate long-term solutions to complex problems in a non-partisan, collaborative way.
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Community Wealth Building An economic development model that transform local economies based on communities having ownership and control of their assets. It aims to restructure the economy to make it more democratic.
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Participatory Budgeting Participatory budgeting (PB) processes empower communities to make decisions on a city’s budget and spending. PB can be combined with deliberation to ensure a robust, inclusive process.
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