Addressing the Climate Crisis

Candice Howarth is Senior Policy Fellow at the LSE Grantham Research Institute and Co-director of the Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN). She has an interdisciplinary background in climate policy, communication and pro-environmental behaviour with degrees in meteorology (BSc), climate change (MSc) and a Ph.D. in climate policy and pro-environmental behaviour.Matthew Lane is Researcher in Sustainable Urban Governance at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on how city and regional governments are coping with an increased responsibility to act on crises of sustainability despite having limited legal, institutional, political and economic capacity to do so. He has undertaken fieldwork in the UK, Zambia, China and the United States of America.Amanda Slevin is Environmental Sociologist with 20+ years’ experience in community development, adult and community education. Co-Director of QUB’s Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action, Amanda works with the Place-based Climate Action Network through which she co-founded Belfast Climate Commission and chairs its Community Climate Action Working Group.

• Section 1: Community and place in local climate praxis.- 1.Local climate praxis in practice: Community climate action in Belfast.- 2.Putting the ‘Place’ in place-based climate action: Insights from climate adaptation initiatives across Scotland.- 3.A commoner’s climate movement.- 4.The Envirolution Revolution: Raising awareness of climate change creatively through free and accessible community engagement festivals.- Section 2: The spaces of local climate action.- 5.How have climate emergency declarations helped local government action to decarbonise?.- 6.Developing a carbon baseline to support multi-stakeholder, multi-level climate governance at county level.- 7.Power in practice: reflecting on the first year of the Edinburgh Climate Commission.- 8.How can ‘ordinary’ cities become climate pioneers?.- Section 3: The agents of local climate action.- 9.Effective communication on local adaptation: considerations for providers of climate change advice and support.-10.Diversifying the private sector in local climate commissions.- 11.Citizens’ assemblies and juries on climate change: Lessons from their use in practice.- 12.Rebecca WellsUniversities as living labs for climate praxis.