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<aside> <img src="/icons/forward_blue.svg" alt="/icons/forward_blue.svg" width="40px" /> UP2030 aims to support cities in driving the socio-technical transitions required to meet their climate neutrality targets by leveraging urban planning and design. Within the project city stakeholders and local authorities will be supported and guided to put neutrality on the map of their communities in day-to-day actions and strategic decisions. An innovative methodology (5UP-approach) will be developed and applied through the co-development and implementation of science-based - yet practical - tools and methods.
Inclusive participation is key throughout the project’s full cycle of activities so that real needs of communities are reflected in the city-specific visions, and co-designed interventions maximise delivery of co-benefits. As such, UP2030 will have a measured positive impact on spatial justice in the pilots, and give the opportunity to citizens to participate in the transition by becoming agents of change themselves through their sustainable behavioural shifts.
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UP2030 looks at mainstreaming the climate neutrality agenda using urban planning and design as a vehicle for also enhancing the liveability of urban communities. The emphasis on liveability will connect the urban planning and design approaches to the provision of multiple socio-environmental benefits, foremost at a neighbourhood scale. Prototyping is strategically focused on neighbourhoods, as they offer a critical scale for problem-solving, reinvestment, and climate innovation in cities. Testing at this scale will provide valuable lessons for city-wide upscale.
To drive city-wide impact, cities will need to go well beyond technical designs and piloting; UP2030 will empower local authorities to shape their innovation-enabling city environment through: a relevant policy framework, deliberate inclusive participation, shifts to sustainable behaviours, capacity building in city departments, new governance arrangements and financial facilitation. To this end, UP2030 will guide cities (stakeholders and local authorities) to deliver across the values of equity, resilience, neutrality, and sustainability.
Fig. 1: The four main stages of stakeholder engagement - Analysis, Vision, Action and Upscaling - with their respective activities.
The UP2030 project starts from an analysis of the stakeholders that need to be engaged in the identification of needs, barriers and drivers for change towards carbon neutrality, with the aim of guaranteeing that all voices are heard and that the proposed solutions correspond to the needs and challenges of the residents of the cities that are implementing them. These same stakeholders are subsequently engaged in the creation of a common vision, a strategy and a plan to implement the desired changes. These visions are implemented through changes in policy, interventions and prototypes that are then evaluated and upscaled from the neighbourhood level to the city level.
These stages are part of a bigger engagement planning cycle, which you can see in more detail below:
Fig 2: the UP2030 planning cycle