Cities' climate initiatives and ambitions need to be socially just and consider vulnerable populations, to ensure that no-one is left behind. INCLU:DE aims to support local inclusive transformations and foster dialogue exchanges to generate positive equity outcomes for all citizens involved. Traditionally, climate mitigation strategies, plans and actions have prioritized greenhouse gas reduction as the key metric of their success, while oftentimes neglecting the necessity of embedding social equity in their design and implementation.
In the INCLU:DE project, we place a specific emphasis on how to address challenges like fair and equitable resource distribution and benefits allocation, while ensuring that GHG reduction goals are not being compromised. Climate change initiatives will be more effective when they reach all members of society, particularly vulnerable and marginalized groups who are more at risk. Social justice is therefore becoming a core goal for cities tasked with the design and implementation of climate initiatives. Cities play an important role in facilitating social just climate action because they are the level of government most closely connected to citizens and policy implementation in practice.
The cities of Bonn, Heidelberg, Ludwigsburg, Dortmund and Essen have joined the INCLU:DE project to improve social justice considerations in their local climate initiatives (spanning different areas such as energy, mobility, housing and urban development). Collaboration with international frontrunner cities in the field of just and inclusive climate action will ensure that best practices can be mainstreamed across local governments. Current international frontrunners working with INCLU:DE project cities are the cities of Almada, Kaohsiung, Malmö, Rosario, and San José.
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