13 – Climate action
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Region Västerbotten, Umeå Municipality and Kisumu County, Kenya
Project: Partnership and Governance for Health and Resilience in relation to Climate Change and Environment in Kenyan Counties alongside Lake Victoria The project will establish a partnership between The County of Västerbotten and Kenyan counties in the Lake Victoria Basin area. The partnership will be governed by Center for Rural Medicine/Region Västerbotten, Umeå Municipality and…
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Strängnäs-Emboreet,Tanzania
Project: Social Sustainability Strängnäs and Emboreet previously had a partnership between the years 2012-2016. In their new project, they intend to increase both Emboreet’s and Strängnäs’s ability to take young people’s ideas into account and thereby increase the level of democratic dialogues with adults in the village and higher decision-making organs to formulate strategies and…
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Entebbe
The Entebbe project focuses on addressing the lack of involvement of school-going children in decision-making processes concerning climate change actions. It emphasizes the necessity of providing a dedicated platform for these children to access current information about climate change and share their local insights with a global audience. The project underscores that the choices made…
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Innovating with urban governance: municipal committees for inclusive, nature-based solutions
This policy brief explores the challenges and innovative opportunities for institutionalising participatory processes within municipal contexts. Specifically, we report on the creation of municipal committees, a proposal framed within the EU-funded project URBiNAT aimed at co-creating healthy corridors made up of a combination of nature-based solutions (NBS). The proposed committees aim to consolidate citizens’ engagement…
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Local Democracy and the Legitimization of Climate Action in Rural Municipalities of Sweden, Chile and the US
Case studies in rural Chile, Sweden and the US, show that climate policy often leads to conflicts with other rural development objectives. Rural municipalities thus need new tools to balance climate change action with other important local demands. This brief highlights how national- and state-level implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal 13 (climate action) interacts…
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Norrköping and Bihac – Bosnia Herzegovina
NORBIH – Partnership with focus on the waste management area. The initiative for the partnership arose in summer 2021 by Bosnian diaspora in Norrköping after discussions with Bosnian cities on connecting to Swedish cities for partnership and exchange of knowledge. The City of Bihac sent a formal request to Norrköping on working together in a…
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Reducing the negative effects of climate change: Lessons from the Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change in Budapest
Author: Daniel Oross In 2020 the City Council of Budapest invited locals to take part in the Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change in order to develop a climate strategy that matched people’s lives and aspirations. This policy brief provides empirical evidence of how local governments can address the problems of climate change in cooperation with…
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Forshaga and Lundazi, Zambia
Involve and educate the whole municipality/district in climate issues The project which is a partnership between Forshaga Municipal and Lundazi Municipal Council is aimed at sharing of experiences in dealing with Climate Change issues. The project will bring forth exchange of ideas and strategies that will strengthen linkages with local businesses, organizations as well as…
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Västernorrland and Mombassa, Kenya
This project between Mombasa and Västernorrland seeks to improve the capacity of the two organizations to achieve a more sustainable consumption pattern and solid waste management. Project: Promoting sustainable consumption and waste management Mombasa and Västernorrland initated their partnership in 2013. Following their previous project, Building capacity to address literacy challenges and enhance democratic engagement…
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Norrköping and Uasin Gishu, Kenya
This project builds on the results and methods of a previous project on solid waste management. It focuses on further implementation and completion of activities aimed to increase capacity building for a County-owned waste management company and adress issues of governance and coordination structures. Project: Environment protection NORELD 2020 Norrköping Municipality and Uasin Gishuy County…
