The Centre for Public Impact is partnering with local governments across the world to test new innovative approaches to climate action. We accelerate urban climate action through government and philanthropy by fostering critical but sorely missing approaches to climate transformation: learning, collaboration, innovation, and systems thinking.
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and erased completely by 2050, is a vast, complex, and collective challenge without precedent. Only governments can mobilise the cross-sector collective action we need.
We believe cities, which account for more than 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions, present the most significant opportunity to slow climate change.
While many local governments have ambitious climate action plans, they struggle to put them into action and are not on target to meet their goals.
City governments are not set up for the cross-cutting, systemic nature of the climate challenge. Urban climate action often languishes in the planning phase, and communities – especially those whose needs have been historically ignored by their governments – continue to suffer the consequences of inaction.
We use our skills as designers, facilitators and project managers, and our experience in climate action to achieve these goals. Our focus areas for transformative, systemic climate action are:
Reimagining climate finance.
Transforming public sector organisations.
Fostering community-government relationship building.
Leveraging tools like AI for decision-making and knowledge-sharing.
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