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ACT’s ED, Dr. Alison Shaw, to lead SFU's community-centred climate innovation
Dr. Alison Shaw has taken on the inaugural role of leading SFU's community-centred climate innovation research project, where she will continue to promote low carbon resilience (LCR) and cohesive and systemic nature-based solutions (NbS).
ACT's Low Carbon Resilience Approach Provides the Foundation for Community-centred Climate Innovation
Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue but a social design challenge. It requires systems thinking and strategies that not only reduce climate risks and emissions, but also advance social, environmental, and economic sustainability. ACT's integrated LCR approach promotes this kind of systemic framing and comprehensive planning and decision-making. In addition, ACT’s Natural Solutions Initiative (NSI) is dedicated to promoting systemic and cohesive NbS planning, which have emerged as a flagship LCR strategy, to minimize climate risks (e.g., extreme heat, flooding, and sea level rise), sequester carbon, and advance healthy and resilient communities. ACT's work on LCR and the NSI going forward will frame and provide the foundation for community-centred climate innovation at SFU.
A Critical Approach to Advancing Practical, Equitable and Effective Climate Action that Reorients our Relationship with Nature
As communities, businesses, and various sectors strive both to decarbonize and reduce emissions as well as to anticipate and respond to climate impacts, it is imperative that communities consider and rely upon diverse knowledges and perspectives. Community-centred climate innovation is designed to
- co-create with community partners,
- promote Indigenous leadership and knowledge, and
- ensure that innovative solutions are framed and implemented in an equitable manner.
ACT intends to embed the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into this work, with the objective of finding innovative solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation that also advance equity, biodiversity, and other social, environmental, and economic priorities.
Join ACT in developing co-created, community-based solutions and innovations to address the impacts of climate change. See the full story here.
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