OUT NOW Report 415: Roadmap for Local deliberative engagement on transitions to net zero carbon and climate resilience

Just out, the Imagining2050 EPA report offers a roadmap for local deliberative engagements on transitions to net zero carbon and climate resilience

Research 415 out now: https://bit.ly/3z0QinL

Project Highlights: https://bit.ly/3RQKXYz

Summary

Ireland faces considerable challenges in transitioning to a net-zero carbon and climate resilient future. This research focused on the challenge of engaging citizens and communities in climate action while also recognising that new and novel approaches are required to enable the transition to climate resilience. The co-creation of the Deliberative Futures Toolkit together with local, scientific and policy communities, provides a resource that can be used by communities and policymakers.

Informing Policy

Imagining 2050, hosted by the Environmental Research Institute in UCC in partnership with Queen's University Belfast (QUB), developed innovative techniques and tools to support citizens and communities in engaging with climate change, and to envision future pathways for a net-zero carbon and climate resilient Ireland. Imagining 2050 has consolidated existing research capacity in UCC and QUB on i) societal transitions, ii) climate mitigation, iii) climate adaptation and combines them with iv) innovative participative and deliberative methods. A key innovation in the project was a recursive and iterative process combining deliberative processes with technical scenario analysis to envision and co-produce pathways for a low carbon, climate resilient Ireland. The project offers a roadmap for informing local deliberative engagements for achieving these goals. The project findings, tools, and outputs are playing a key role in informing national climate action policy and the NDCA.

Research 415 out now: https://bit.ly/3z0QinL

Project Highlights: https://bit.ly/3RQKXYz