Reimagining Climate Futures: a Deliberative Dialogue on Circularity Part I
Abstract
As the world gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt for
COP27, seven years after the historic Paris Agreement,
climate observers noted that the climate crisis is
unraveling faster than ever before. With devasting floods
and wildfires, communities are seeking innovative
solutions that can be scaled quickly, provide resilience and
ensure sustainability for a diverse range of lifeforms. With
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continuing to climb, and
the latest geopolitical threats making for an ever more
complex environment, the pace of transformation of all our
systems needs to quicken, all the while ensuring a just and
equitable transition for all.
Fragmentation, siloeing, disconnection and political
polarization affect a wide range of human experiences
and systems and add to the complexity of climate
solutions. Research and science have also resulted in very
compartmentalized disciplines where trans- multi- and
inter-disciplinary research, even if more and more active, is
still not very well evaluated and funded. As we increasingly
realize we operate in complex and interconnected adaptive
systems, researching one subject becomes difficult without
considering all connected topics, and their dynamics.
There is a strong invitation and a need for a cultural shift
in how we view human systems and their relations to the
environment. As scholars and practitioners, we proposed to convene
an interdisciplinary, intersectoral and intercultural group
of academics, urbanists, public servants, elected officials
and citizens to develop a framework for climate-readiness
based on a circular model approach.
The circularity framework for climate readiness will
enable communities to reconnect with hope and develop
innovative collaborative ideas and worldviews together
with concrete proofs-of-concept, such as in the circular city
model currently tested in Europe, and scale efforts to meet
the challenges of our changing climate in a relational and
community-oriented way.
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