Addressing the climate emergency together: the importance of co-creative practices

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In this webinar, CAT’s Dr Anna Bullen explores the theory and practice behind co-creative processes, and how CAT’s new Zero Carbon Britain Hub will be employing them to identify key barriers and solutions in the transition to net zero.

The webinar was recorded on 9 November 2021, during the second week of COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.

Collaboration and the climate emergency

No one individual, body or country can address the climate emergency alone. Instead, it relies on collaboration across all sectors and at multiple scales.

Co-creation is a collaborative process that draws on a range of inputs from key stakeholders* to inform the process, and ultimately design and create the ‘product’ (for example a Council’s climate action plan or national policy). It focuses on stakeholder experience and interactive relationships and allows for a more active involvement of key stakeholders. The aim is to reach a mutually valued outcome, which will in turn be owned by all stakeholders, thereby maximising its impact.

Co-creation blends the ideas of key stakeholders (both end-users and other relevant parties) to create new ideas, exploring both the existing challenges and the potential solutions. Ultimately, co-creation results in strategies, policies and decisions that are robust, meaningful and fit for use, now and into the future.

In this webinar, CAT’s Innovation Lab Manager, Dr Anna Bullen, explores this process and discuss how the Zero Carbon Britain Hub Innovation Lab will employ co-creative methodologies to identify key barriers and solutions in the transition to net zero.

*Stakeholder – a person/organisation with an interest in and/or influence on the project and outcomes. This may be anyone from a local authority or government, a variety of community sub-sectors, funders, NGOs, community representatives etc.

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