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Les travaux et rapports scientifiques sont aujourd’hui nombreux à poser la question de l’alimentation de demain et à s’alarmer sur notre capacité à nourrir 11 milliards de personnes à l’horizon 2050 (Esnouf et al., 2011 ; Masson-Delmotte, 2020) tout en respectant la santé humaine et des écosystèmes. L’alimentation est responsable en France du quart de l’empreinte carbone. Elle est à la croisée de plusieurs enjeux, de santé et d’environnement, comme la préservation de la biodiversité, l
These are all critically important issues. But here’s the rub: Even if the Democratic administration were resoundingly successful on all fronts, its initiatives would still be utterly insufficient to resolve the existential threat of climate breakdown and the devastation of our planet’s life-support systems. That’s because the multiple problems confronting us right now are symptoms of an even more profound problem: The underlying structure of a global economic and political system that is driving civilization toward a precipice.
Their stories and solutions have now been collected in a new e-book Resilience Matters: Opportunities for Action to Strengthen Communities
Public-civic cooperation has never been as important for European cities as today. Fading trust between public administrations and the civic society, rising authoritarianism and deteriorating services all make urban life more burdensome, especially for the most vulnerable social groups. In turn, sharing resources and responsibilities between municipalities and civil society actors has helped cities not only in generating enhanced participation in urban development issues but also in co-producing urban space and co-creating urban services.
The Power of Civic Ecosystems: How community spaces and their networks make our cities more cooperative, fair and resilient explores methods and practices of building stronger local civic ecosystems around community spaces. The book is based on the experiences of ACTive NGOs, an URBACT network that brought together the municipalities of Riga, Brighton and Hove, Dubrovnik, Espoo, Santa Pola and Siracusa for a 3-year learning process towards creating new platforms for public-civic cooperation.
Putting these experiences in a broader context, The Power of Civic Ecosystems also collects inspiring practices from other cities, ranging from municipal policies to citizen initiatives and professional methodologies, exploring mechanisms of stakeholder mapping and ecosystem-building, frameworks to access to public and private spaces, models of economic resilience, structures of participatory governance, and processes of capacity building.
In recent years, climate has become a central topic in German politics. Whereas during the last federal elections in 2017 it was mainly the Green party calling for ambitious climate policies, now parties across the spectrum are putting the topic at the heart of their election programmes. In contrast to four years ago, the Greens are, for the first time, leading the polls, signalling that climate is a priority for many German voters. In a case started by climate activists, Germany’s highest court recently ruled that the government’s climate legislation falls short, a landmark decision that increased the momentum for more climate efforts. Only two weeks after the verdict, Merkel's cabinet pulled forward the climate neutrality target by five years to 2045. Now that climate protection has become mainstream, the question is not whether the country should transition to a clean energy economy, but how it should do so.
Along with several design partners, Democratic Society took up the challenge of inspiring cities to experiment with new approaches to citizen participation as part of the EIT Climate-KIC Healthy, Clean Cities Deep Demonstrations project consortium.
Democratic Society also wanted to use this experience to develop a scalable model that could be experimented with in any city, anywhere.
The project brought together experts from financing, innovation, carbon accounting, and citizen participation to design and conduct strategic work programmes with cities.
Crucially, Democratic Society also employed Local Connectors in each city, skilled practitioners with expertise in policy and civic engagement, social innovation and design for sustainability, and locals in the cities they worked in.
They collaborated with city leaders and consortium design partners and joined the dots between the diverse actors involved. They worked towards a good transition that included government bodies, civil society organisations, grassroots groups, journalists, and businesses.
The locations for these programmes? The 14 European cities of Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Kraków, Križevci, Leuven, Madrid, Malmö, Maribor, Milano, Niš, Orléans, Sarajevo, Skopje and Vienna.
Le 24 février dernier, nous avons invité Antoine Foucault, directeur de la coordination de l’innovation à la Région Occitanie, et Chloé Guillemot, chargée de mission dialogue et mise en débat à Nantes Métropole, à partager avec nos adhérent.es leur expériences des conventions citoyennes organisées par ces deux collectivités pionnières. Deux témoignages précieux, à l’heure où les conventions citoyennes ont le vent en poupe, au niveau national comme au niveau local …
C’est l’un des enseignements d’une étude d’impact « complémentaire », portant sur l’action climatique de l’exécutif depuis le début du quinquennat, commandée au Boston Consulting Group. Publiée le 10 février, elle conclut qu’aller au-delà de l’objectif de – 40 % d’émissions, comme cela est discuté au niveau européen, nécessite un « changement de paradigme ».
L’ancien ministre de l’Environnement Yves Cochet, l’un des précurseurs de la collapsologie, appelle d’urgence à relocaliser l’économie, en créant des biorégions résilientes et solidaires, pour faire face à la pandémie de coronavirus, et à un possible effondrement généralisé.
The Oxford English Dictionary just declared ‘climate emergency’ its word of the year. The use of the term has grown a hundred-fold in the past twelve months
A strong civil society is a fundamental pillar of a strong democracy. However, in many European countries, the civic space is shrinking and civil society organisations are facing critical challenges. Here's a report looking at how the EEA Grants have helped support and strengthen civil society during the 2009–2014 funding period.
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En juin, le Conseil économique social et environnemental (Cese) a annoncé la création d'une direction dédiée à la participation citoyenne. Entretien avec sa directrice, Marianne Escurat, qu
Democratic Public Ownership combines solidarity economy principles around democratic governance, equity, subsidiarity, and sustainability with the benefits of collective ownership in its widest, most holistic sense.
With so much happening around COP26, we wanted to ground ourselves in what communities are doing, day in, day out, to build a better future. There is so much creativity, energy and impact in these local initiatives, decision-makers could learn a thing or two, not least about what is possible when we come together with the starting point that things can and need to be done differently.
The climate crisis requires a new culture and politics, not just new tech
We are living through what scientists call the Anthropocene, a new geological age during which humans have become the dominant force shaping the natural environment. Many scientists date this new period to the post-second world war economic boom, the “great acceleration”. This rapid increase in our control over the Earth has brought us to the precipice of catastrophic climate change, triggered a mass extinction, disrupted our planet’s nitrogen cycles and acidified its oceans, among other things.
La coalition d’Angela Merkel a annoncé mercredi 5 mai un renforcement de ses objectifs climatiques. Un effort notable pour la première économie d’Europe et la sixième émettrice de gaz à effet de serre mondiale, motivée par une décision de justice sans précédent et la popularité des Grünen.
Angela Merkel restera-t-elle dans les annales comme la « chancelière du climat » ? À cinq mois de sa retraite politique, la cheffe d’État allemande doit défendre dans l’après-midi du (...)
The new US administration offers the opportunity for a reboot of transatlantic relations, especially in relation to civil society. The calls and grievances expressed by Women’s movements, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the climate generation resonate strongly in both Europe and the US. These movements are central actors in a potential reconfiguration of the EU-US relationship. Their diverse and participatory nature, as well as the commitment to justice they embody, could form the foundation for building a new transatlantic narrative.
Eight months have passed since Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented Europe’s recovery efforts before the European Parliament. During this time, our Union has made history, write Luis Garicano, Martin Hojsík and Gergely Karácsony.
Lewisham Council is part of Locality's Keep it Local network, and has committed to the unlocking the power of community. Councillor Jonathan Slater describes how working together with community organisations and volunteers has been key to the council's swift response to the coronavirus crisis.
Business models reliant on maximum footfall are at odds with social distancing, says author and academic Anna Minton
Éric Piolle est maire écologiste de Grenoble depuis 2014 et candidat à sa réélection. Largement en tête des sondages, son bilan a été salué par de nombreux observateurs comme un modèle pour les grandes villes en transition. Il raconte cette expérience originale dans son livre Grandir ensemble, les villes réveillent l’espoir (éd. Broché), où il développe également un horizon ambitieux pour les métropoles, dans un contexte d’urgence climatique et de perte du lien social. Dans ce riche entretien, nous revenons particulièrement sur les conclusions politiques qu’il en tire, à quelques semaines des municipales, mais surtout à 2 ans des présidentielles. Éric Piolle occupe en effet une place singulière dans le paysage politique : étiqueté EELV, il conserve une indépendance par rapport à l’appareil et a su entraîner l’ensemble des composantes de la gauche sociale et écologiste derrière lui. Retranscrit par Dominique Girod, réalisé par Pierre Gilbert.
The first Wetopia Academy in Cape Town
From 18 to 27th October 2019 we started the first Wetopia Academy during ‘Open Design Afrika’ in Cape Town (ZA). With interventions and workshops in the townships, inspiration days with local and international ‘Wetopians’ and a learning program for policy makers, we actively stimulate new ways to make a city together.
Citizen activism is working to force change that is beneficial for all, in the face of the need to ditch greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels
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