New Project Launch: Designing Urban Climate Governance for Regenerative Futures
Cities are poised to pioneer strategies that ground climate action in the regeneration of natural systems and long-term planetary health. CNCA’s new Regenerative Futures initiative supports member cities in imagining and designing climate governance processes that enable informed, values-based decision-making that internalizes the impacts of climate action on natural systems far and wide.
Through a multi-city cohort spanning diverse geographies, CNCA is working with leading practitioners to advance systems-based approaches that strengthen ecosystem health, center community well-being and build the foundations for resilient, life-supporting futures across generations. Participating members include: Amsterdam, Boston, Boulder, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Toronto as well as Adelaide, Melbourne, New York, Portland, Seattle, Stockholm, Sydney and Vancouver.
The project focuses on three core objectives:
- Strengthening understanding of how to ground planetary boundaries frameworks and circular economies in local government decision-making process.
- Building city capacity to integrate nature-centric and regenerative approaches into climate action and urban policy through collaborative research and practitioner exchange.
- Connecting an emerging international network of urban leaders who are pioneering structural shifts in climate governance and sharing promising models across cities.
This work is made possible through support from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation (VKRF), whose commitment to safeguarding the ecological systems on which all life depends enables this next chapter of city-led innovation. A huge thank you to the VKRF team and Trustees for entrusting CNCA and its members with this groundbreaking effort.
CNCA is excited to partner with Reos Partners, experts in facilitating complex, multi-stakeholder processes in structuring and accompanying CNCA cities along this learning journey.
Stay tuned for more to come!
Since the Project Launch:
The initiative has completed a baseline assessment documenting the governance approaches, policies and emerging practices already underway across participating cities, alongside leading innovations from the wider field.
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About Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance:
The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance is an alliance of leading global cities working collaboratively to achieve carbon neutrality in the next 10-20 years while demonstrating innovative solutions and policy approaches to inspire other cities to reach carbon neutrality as quickly as possible. Our mission is to mobilize transformative climate action in cities in order to achieve prosperity, social equity, resilience and better quality of life for all on a thriving planet.
CNCA is committed to a just carbon neutral future that recognizes and redresses the disproportionate burdens and the disproportionate benefits of the fossil fuel economy by prioritizing climate action that advances the well-being of low-income people, Indigenous Peoples, communities of color, immigrants and refugees and other historically marginalized communities.
Media Contact:
Simone Mangili, CNCA Executive Director
simonemangili@carbonneutralcities.org
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