Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ACCTING (AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal)
Berichtszeitraum: 2022-02-01 bis 2023-01-31
The overall objectives of ACCTING are thus to:
- Understand the impact of Green Deal policy initiatives on individual and collective behaviours with specific attention to vulnerable groups.
- Provide evidence and empower policymakers and other stakeholders to anticipate policy responses, the potential negative impacts on inequalities, and to mitigate such impacts in Green Deal decision-making;
- Co-creatively design and implement pilot actions to be deployed by policymakers and stakeholders in the policy domains of the Green Deal with the ambition to reduce or prevent inequalities and promote participation and social justice.
Climate Action:
1.Valorising local knowledge on natural hazards
Biodiversity:
2.Land use restrictions
Clean energy:
3.Energy poverty
4.EEMs/SMEs
Farm to fork:
5. Food security
6. Food values
Sustainable mobility:
7.Transport poverty
8.Post-lockdown transport choices
On this basis and in the first 12 months of the project, ACCTING research has involved an extensive mapping and comparative analysis of almost 700 bottom-up environmental initiatives, identifying local authorities, NGOs, CSOs and other actors in 34 countries. In parallel, the eight thematic and interdisciplinary research lines were developed alongside the theoretical and methodological framework to integrate the perspectives of complexity and intersectionality. The successful implementation of the first of the two research cycles of qualitative data collection resulted in 400 narrative interviews gathered through fieldwork in 14 countries along the 8 research lines. This sets the stage for the second research cycle to come. Finally, the multi-sectoral “Open Studios” were developed, ready to be later fed with the results and co-create ideas and concepts for innovative solutions. In addition to the research activities, the ACCTING Network, a living community of stakeholders intent on implementing a fair and sustainable Green Deal, was launched.
Continuing from the main results achieved so far, ACCTING will move on to the 41 experimental studies. These results will feed the multi-sectoral Open Studios which will then be used for further research experimentation, the development of pilot actions with mass implementation, and operational recommendations and an agenda for future research.
By providing in-depth knowledge of inequalities caused or worsened by Green Deal policies and involving stakeholders in the co-creation of solutions, ACCTING will have four main impacts:
- Make visible the effects of the Green Deal on vulnerable people and the emergence of new forms of discrimination and inequality
- Empower policymakers to take measures that alleviate or mitigate the adverse effects of decisions associated with the Green Deal on inequalities and vulnerable groups
- Stimulate initiatives taken by citizens and NGOs to involve society and more specifically vulnerable groups to adapt their behaviour to climate change and use these to inspire and facilitate their uptake
- Develop new concepts of bottom-up initiatives that have positive impacts on inequalities and discriminations to inspire policymakers and other stakeholders to roll these out and develop them further.