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This report explores the value of collaborating with citizens in urban climate governance and offers guidance on how to engage citizens in building climate-neutral, sustainable and resilient cities. It introduces a conceptual framework to help enhance understanding of how to most effectively engage residents in sustainability transitions. The framework was used in engagement workshops that SEI conducted with residents of Malmö.
Malmö is actively exploring how to effectively engage citizens in climate action. Its efforts recognize that city governments and their residents have important roles to play in achieving climate aims. Cities can support more rapid and more extensive progress in lowering emissions through the decisions they make in shaping related infrastructure, institutions, investments and residents’ behaviours. Resident engagement can influence how effective these efforts are. Such engagement can help cities build needed trust, inform prospective policy measures, create a sense of community buy-in, and foster collective action.
This is one of two companion reports developed by SEI in close cooperation with the municipality of Malmö to support its green transition. Together, the reports aim to help the city create sectoral roadmaps and explore pathways for reducing consumption-based emissions as part of its transition towards climate neutrality by 2030.
This report was produced with support from the Interreg North Sea Programme through its Speak Up project. It was produced through the Net Zero Pilot Malmö project. The project received funding from NetZeroCities through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (under grant agreement No 101036519).
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