An approach for innovative Climate Learning, Evaluation and Action in Neighbourhoods

In climate policies, bottom-up initiatives by individuals and communities have been seen essential in increasing acceptance of climate actions. Yet, conventional strategies addressing these groups often fail to provoke a change in perspectives and actions. Yet, facing local people with climate threats in their own surroundings may tackle climate related prejudices and initiate transformative learning processes. This project studies how broadening the perspective at a micro-level may trigger action, and how it may evoke political bottom-up driven decisions. Cases in different countries and contexts are used to study how new solutions for local climate problems can be developed via new learning processes. The project yields results at three levels: an effective change in perspectives at the level of the neighborhood; a generic transferable methodology for stimulating such processes in other neighborhoods; and a set of recommendations for the micro- and meso-level climate policy-making.