The Climate Emergency & Infrastructure Constructive Conversations – 14 March 2024.
This session focused on creating climate neutral towns and cities. We discussed plans to achieve net zero, and the part that active travel infrastructure can play in this goal. From climate action towns and networks, to net zero cities we explored what this means for those of us working to deliver infrastructure to people living in communities to help bring this about. Our expert panel spent half an hour discussing these questions and more.
Following watching the recording you may find it useful to take a few minutes to reflect on the discussion.
- What is still circling around in your head on this topic?
- What do you feel is ‘squared away’ – you feel you have a much clearer understanding of?
- What key takeaways or highlights do you have from the discussion?
Feedback Survey
We would appreciate you taking a moment to complete our short feedback survey after you’ve watched the recording.
Further Information
Below are contact details for some of our panelists if you wish to contact them directly, and some links to further information relating to this topic that you may find useful.
- Thomas Haddock, Head of Operations, NetZeroCities
- Fiorella Modolo, Senior Design Officer, Architecture and Design Scotland – info@ads.org.uk
- Sandy Underwood, Lochbroom and Ullapool Community Trust – sandy@ullapoolcommunity.org
Useful Links and Resources
- Knowledge repository on the NetZeroCities portal. You can register to the portal if you would like but you can still access the knowledge repository without registering. What might be of particular interest is the Climate City Contracts, which can be accessed through filtering resources by type as seen on the left hand side of the page.
- If you are interested, you can join NetZeroCities Community of Practice
- The recently published European Declaration on Cycling is a useful documents for language around active travel, although not especially relevant to the UK, a useful resource non the less.
- Raptor is an interesting project doing some exciting things on mobility – Raptor Project: Pilot your innovative urban mobility ideas in smart European cities.
- This letter presented at COP28 is another interesting read – COP28 letter and activities | PATH – Partnership for Active Travel and Health (pathforwalkingcycling.com)
- It’s also good to keep an eye on the work CIVITAS is coordinating – Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen are all member cities: CIVITAS: Sustainable and Smart Mobility for All.
- Architecture & Design Scotland: Climate Action Towns – working with local communities to support place-based climate action in a network of small Scottish towns.
About Constructive Conversations
Grab a cuppa, get comfortable and join us for some informal constructive conversations about some of the challenges in delivering active travel infrastructure.
At each 1 hour session, our expert panel will spend half an hour discussing key questions and more around the chosen topic. Following this, you can take part in an optional small group discussion where you can share your own experiences on the topic, present a related issue in a live project, and receive advice and feedback from peers.
Other sessions
The ‘Climate Emergency and Infrastructure series’ of constructive conversations explores sustainability in construction of active travel projects.
The ‘By Design’ series of constructive conversations explores how urban design in active travel projects can help to address some of the big issues facing society today.
Look out for more series on different topics in future, and if there is a topic you would like to suggest for a series, or a standalone session, please do get in touch with us placesforeveryone@sustrans.org.uk.
